For those who like long walks with a rucksack, for tourists curious about postglacial mountain forms or looking for specimens of interesting rocks, Karkonosze are a unique region of Poland. It is the only range of Sudety mountains with an Alpine vegetation belt. Within Natura 2000 European Network these beautiful mountains are protected as a site of community importance. Karkonosze are the highest range of Sudety mountains in Poland and Czech Republic. They stretch over 35 km. more »
Sudeten province occupies on Polish territory area of about 9.3 thousand km² (approximately 3% of area of the country). The landscape in the region... more»
The Karkonosze National Park was established in 1959 to include an area of 5,510 ha. Since 1992 the Karkonosze National Park has been included into the Bilateral Biosphere Reserve Karkonosze/Krkonoše (MaB) which covers over 60,000 ha.