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Brenna
The name has nothing to do with the shape of the mountain. On its western summit the boundaries of three communities meet – Wisła, Ustroń and Brenna – and the shepherds and settlers of old marked them with mounds of piled stones ("kopce").…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
People climb Błatnia (917 m) for the meadow and the view: from the grassy mound on the summit you can see almost the entire Silesian Beskids, from Klimczok and Skrzyczne to Barania Góra, and on clear days even the peaks of the Malá Fatra i…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
Równica is an 884.6 m peak in the Silesian Beskids, rising between the Vistula valley at Ustroń and the Brennica valley at Brenna – the boundary of the two municipalities runs along its ridge. It is known for a wide meadow with a panorama…
Museums
Brenna
Chlebowa Chata (the Bread Cottage) in Górki Małe is an open-air museum, museum and educational farm in one, set at the foot of the Silesian Beskids in the Brennica valley. Since 2005 the hosts have been showing what village life looked lik…
Landmarks
Brenna
The Kossak Manor in Górki Wielkie (say "GOOR-kee VYEL-kyeh") is the partly rebuilt ruin of an 18th-century country house in southern Poland's Cieszyn Silesia region, where the Kossak family of artists and writers lived from 1922. Its best-…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
In 1913, 211 sheep and 12 cows grazed at the Kotarz shepherd's hut above Brenna – at the time one of the largest in the Silesian Beskids. What the shepherds left behind is Hala Jaworowa, also known as Polana Kotarska: a broad mountain mead…
Nature
Brenna
In beech woodland on the southern slope of Trzy Kopce, at about 1,000 m, a 4.3 m shaft opens in a small hollow. Below it runs a maze of fissures and chambers about 1,244 m long – the Trzy Kopce Cave, also known as Klimczok's Grotto, is one…
Churches & monasteries
Brenna
The attic of All Saints Church in Górki Wielkie is home to one of the most valuable bat colonies in the region, and behind the church, in the cemetery on the Kępka Prochaskowa hillock, lies the writer Zofia Kossak. The church itself is one…
Other
Brenna
"He who has sheep has all he wants" – that is the name of one of the workshops at the Goat Farmstead (Kozia Zagroda) in Brenna, and it sums the place up well. In the centre of the village, hosts Beata and Rafał have reconstructed a highlan…
Amusement parks
Brenna
On the slope of Grabowa above Brenna, around the Chata Grabowa mountain hut, the hosts are Svarog, the Noon Witch and the Water Demon. The Fairy-Tale Garden is an open-air themed trail with characters from the legends and folk tales of the…
Landscape parks
Brenna
Silesian Beskids Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Beskidu Śląskiego, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee BES-kee-doo SHLOHN-skee-eh-go") is the largest mountain landscape park in Silesia, southern Poland: almost 39,000 hectares of forest,…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
On the ridge of Grabowa, archaeologists have found traces of Middle Palaeolithic early humans, probably of the Mousterian culture. Today, right next to the summit of this mountain (907 m), stands Chata Grabowa — a lodge in highland style,…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
Sheep grazed the meadows of Stary Groń for more than three hundred years – a man named Gawlas set up the first shepherd's hut here as early as the first half of the 17th century, making this ridge the oldest pastoral centre in Brenna. Toda…