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Pieniny National Park

Pieniny National Park is one of most picturesque national parks in Poland. The Park's area is 2,346 ha. Forests cover 1,665 ha - 750 ha are placed under a strict protection.

The Pieniny are build of a variety of limestone. Cornstone, the hardest type of limestone builds picturesque, almost vertical, white, rocky walls along the Dunajec river. The best known peak - Trzy Korony (Three Crowns) is 982 m a.s.l. and the highest peak in the whole Pieniny - Wysoka - 1,050 m a.s.l.

The Polish part of the Pieniny occupies the area of only nearly 100 sq. km but there have been registered 1,100 species of vascular plants (almost 50% of species recorded in the entire Polish flora).

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Pieniny National Park

Pieniny National Park is one of most picturesque national parks in Poland. The Park's area is 2,346 ha. Forests cover 1,665 ha - 750 ha are placed under a strict protection.

Tatra National Park contains about 650 caves. Wielka Sniezna - Wielka Litworowa cave is the longest, with 18,000 m of tunnels and the deepest (814 m in depth). Only 6 caves are accessible for visitors.