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Istebna
At Kubalonka Pass (761 m) the road from Wisła to Istebna crosses the Main Beskid Trail, and right next to it stands a wooden church that came to the mountains from the lowlands near Gliwice. The pass separates the Stożek–Czantoria range fr…
Mountains & peaks
Istebna
At Szarcula Pass (about 760 m) rain falling on one side of the ridge ends up in the Vistula and the Baltic Sea, and on the other side flows via the Olza and the Oder. The pass is a shallow saddle in the Barania Góra range, on the main Euro…
Mountains & peaks
Istebna
Signs give the height as 1220 m, but that figure refers to a survey point set almost 5 m above the ground on a concrete obelisk – the summit itself is about 1215 m. Barania Góra is the second-highest peak of the Silesian Beskids (after Skr…
Churches & monasteries
Istebna
The Church of Our Lady of Fatima on Stecówka stands in a broad mountain meadow in Istebna, at about 760 m above sea level, right on the red Main Beskid Trail. Today's wooden church is a faithful rebuild of the one that burned down on the n…
Museums
Istebna
A highlander from Istebna who studied in Kraków under Mehoffer and Fałat and later in Paris won a bronze medal at an exhibition in Paris in 1937, then spent the last decades of his life working in near obscurity. Jan Wałach (1884–1979), a…
Mountains & peaks
Istebna
At 760 m above sea level, the broad Stecówka clearing slopes down towards the Olza valley, and the red Main Beskid Trail runs right across it. Several chapters of Istebna's highland history fit into one view here: a wooden church built in…