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Poland's Stoch wins Zakopane ski jumping event

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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kamil Stoch of Poland won the individual competition of the FIS World Cup in Zakopane on Sunday. Stefan Kraft of Austria came second.

Mountain chic or height of kitsch? New exhibition pays homage to the ‘Zakopane style’

The newly renovated Villa Koliba (meaning shepherd’s hut in the Tatra Gorals dialect) is the first building constructed in the design conceived by artist Stanisław Witkiewicz as a Polish national architectural style.

Polish skijumpers triumph in at FIS Grand Prix in Zakopane

Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch won the individual competition at the FIS Grand Prix in Zakopane, southern Poland, with a total of 250.8 points ahead of Poland's Dawid Kubacki (250.1 points) and Japan's Yukiya Sato (249.3 points).

Half a billion Chinese due to be wowed by Zakopane and the mountains after record-breaking reality TV show uses Tatras as location

In the show shot in the Tatra Mountains 11 members of a girl-band have to overcome a series of snowy challenges.

Spectacular collection of unseen Zamoyski sculptures to return to Poland

The works by August Zamoyski, which have never been exhibited in public before, cover his sculpting career from very early carvings in Poland through to those completed just before his death in the south of France.

Mountain man becomes Insta hit with his stunning pics of the Tatras – but not all is as it seems

Mr Tadeusz, who goes under the Instagram name of Gooral Zakolove, has over 15,000 followers with each photo attracting more than 1,000 likes.

A-MAZE-ing snow maze bigger than TEN tennis courts is the world’s largest

This is the fourth year that Zakopane can boast its record-breaking labyrinth, which at over 3,000 m2 comfortably beats the Arctic Glacier Ice Maze at the Buffalo Powder Keg Festival in Buffalo, New York by more than doubling its size.

Zakopane skier slithers to Alpine glory in Italy

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel fights off dozens of rivals for career-defining win.

Looking like the back of a bus? Not this slick, eco-friendly mountain-design Transport Centre

The designers said they wanted to evoke the surrounding region of Podhale, which is sometimes called the “Polish highlands” – from its natural landscape to traditional wooden architecture.

Drones take to the skies in frontline battle against air pollution

A drone operator receives the result of the analysis in seconds and points the guards to the source. People caught burning garbage, lacquered wood or other objects that emit harmful substances face fines of up to 500 PLN (120 EUR).

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