Slovakia
Things to do in High Tatras
15 places11 stories2 routes
Sightlore has 15 places to explore in High Tatras, and 11 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
High Tatras's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Belianska Cave
Belianska Cave is a stalactite cave in the Slovak part of the Tatra Mountains, the largest and the only one open to the public in the Slovak Tatras.
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Tatra National Park Museum
Museum in Tatranská Lomnica, open since 1969, which informs visitors about the fauna and flora of the High Tatras.
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Church of the Holy Trinity
The Articular church in Kežmarok is a wooden church in Kežmarok, Slovakia.
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Symbolic Cemetery at Popradské Pleso
A memorial site since 1940 below the rock wall of Ostrva near Popradské pleso, with plaques bearing the names of people who died in the High Tatras and other mountains of the world.
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Kežmarok Castle
Castle-palace in the town of Kežmarok, standing on the site of a 13th-century church that was rebuilt into a castle in 1462.
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Hrebienok
Hrebienok is a small ski resort in the Tatra Mountains, in northern Slovakia. It is connected by the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular to the town of Starý Smokovec, which is in turn part of the Tatra Electric Railway.
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Spišská Sobota
Spišská Sobota is a historic town that was absorbed in 1946 as a borough of the city of Poprad, in present-day Slovakia. It is located in the northeastern part of the city above the Poprad River.
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Popradské pleso
Popradské pleso (once called Rybie pleso) is a mountain lake of glacial origin located in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is situated right on the Tatranská magistrála hiking path, at an altitude of 1,494 metres (4,902 ft).
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Lomnický štít
Lomnický štít is one of the highest and most visited mountain peaks in the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia.
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Štrbské pleso
Štrbské pleso is a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin and a top tourist destination in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is the second-largest glacial lake on the Slovak side of the High Tatras, after Veľké Hincovo pleso.
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Discovery routes in High Tatras
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
High Tatras: Lakes, Waterfalls and Lomnický štít
From Štrbské pleso to Popradské pleso and the Symbolic Cemetery; from Hrebienok to the Studený potok waterfalls and Obrovský waterfall; then Skalnaté pleso, Lomnický štít and the Tatra National Park Museum.
Spišská Sobota, Kežmarok and Belianska Cave
From Spišská Sobota, the historic district of Poprad, to Kežmarok Castle and Kežmarok's wooden articular church; then Belianska Cave.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Spišská Sobota
Spišská Sobota is a historic town that was absorbed in 1946 as a borough of the city of Poprad, in present-day Slovakia. It is located in the northeastern part of the city above the Poprad River.
Kežmarok Castle
Castle-palace in the town of Kežmarok, standing on the site of a 13th-century church that was rebuilt into a castle in 1462.
Museums
Tatra National Park Museum
Museum in Tatranská Lomnica, open since 1969, which informs visitors about the fauna and flora of the High Tatras.
Places of worship
Church of the Holy Trinity
The Articular church in Kežmarok is a wooden church in Kežmarok, Slovakia.
Monuments
Symbolic Cemetery at Popradské Pleso
A memorial site since 1940 below the rock wall of Ostrva near Popradské pleso, with plaques bearing the names of people who died in the High Tatras and other mountains of the world.
Nature
Štrbské pleso
Štrbské pleso is a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin and a top tourist destination in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is the second-largest glacial lake on the Slovak side of the High Tatras, after Veľké Hincovo pleso.
Popradské pleso
Popradské pleso (once called Rybie pleso) is a mountain lake of glacial origin located in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is situated right on the Tatranská magistrála hiking path, at an altitude of 1,494 metres (4,902 ft).
Hrebienok
Hrebienok is a small ski resort in the Tatra Mountains, in northern Slovakia. It is connected by the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular to the town of Starý Smokovec, which is in turn part of the Tatra Electric Railway.
Studenovodské vodopády
A cascade of waterfalls on the Studený potok stream in the High Tatras where the Malá and Veľká Studená valleys meet, reached by marked trails from Tatranská Lesná, Tatranská Lomnica and Starý Smokovec.
Obrovský vodopád
A waterfall about 20 m high in the High Tatras, at the mouth of the Malá Studená dolina valley at 1,330 m above sea level.
Skalnaté pleso
Skalnaté pleso (1751m) is a lake located in the High Tatras mountains in the north of Slovakia. The highest wind speed ever recorded in Slovakia was recorded here on 29 November 1965, when a wind with the speed of 78,6 m/s was recorded.
Lomnický štít
Lomnický štít is one of the highest and most visited mountain peaks in the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia.
Belianska Cave
Belianska Cave is a stalactite cave in the Slovak part of the Tatra Mountains, the largest and the only one open to the public in the Slovak Tatras.
Gerlachovský štít
Gerlachovský štít, informally referred to as Gerlach, is the highest peak in the High Tatras, in Slovakia, and in the Carpathian Mountains. Its elevation is usually listed at 2654.4 m above sea level.
Rysy
Rysy is a mountain in the crest of the High Tatras, eastern part of the Tatra Mountains, located on the border between Poland and Slovakia.
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