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Czorsztyn (German: ''Schorstin'') is a village in 
The attractions of Lake Czorsztyn
from The Department of Hotel & Tourist Services ''Niedzica.com''.
File:061. Czorsztyn.JPG, Czorsztyn Castle and lake panorama
File:Poland Czorsztyn - castle.jpg, Entrance
File:Jezioro Czorsztynskie 1.jpg, View of marina down from Czorsztyn Castle
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of
3,404,863 (2019).
It was created on 1 ...
, Nowy Targ County
Nowy Targ County ( pl, powiat nowotarski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish ...
. The village lies in Pieniny
The Pieniny (sometimes also the PieninsSzafer, Władysław. 2013. ''The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology''. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388. or the Pienin Mountains,Griffiths, Graham C. D. ...
, the mountain range on the current Polish- Slovak border. It is famous for the ruins of a 14th-17th-century castle, which was the scene of the Kostka-Napierski Uprising
The Kostka Napierski uprising () was a peasant revolt in Poland in 1651.
It took place at the same time as the more important Khmelnytsky Uprising, in the south-east part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and during the Swedish prepara ...
in 1651.
Highlights
Czorsztyn gave its name to the man-made reservoir also known as Lake Czorsztyn, completed in 1994. The village along with its mountainous surroundings is a recreational destination with well developed tourist infrastructure: accommodations, pleasure-boats dock, and numerous marked hiking trails.from The Department of Hotel & Tourist Services ''Niedzica.com''.
Gallery
See also
*Dunajec River Gorge
The Dunajec River Gorge ( pl, Przełom Dunajca; sk, Prielom Dunajca; german: Dohnst-Schlucht) runs through the Pieniny Mountains in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia (as Dunajec is the border river between the two countries in the area ...
* Niedzica Castle
Niedzica Castle also known as Dunajec Castle ( lat, Castrum de Dunajecz, hu, Nedec Váralja / Nedec-Vár, german: Sub-Arx Unterschloss, sk, Nedecký hrad), is located in the southernmost part of Poland in Niedzica (Nowy Targ County in Lesser Po ...
* Pieniny National Park (Poland)
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Park logo with stylized Trzy Korony Massif
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Map of Pien ...
* Trzy Korony massif
References
External links
Villages in Nowy Targ County {{LesserPoland-geo-stub