Jezersko, a pittoresque village nestled in Spišská Magura : Photos, Diagrams & Topos : SummitPost

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Arthur Digbee - Dec 9, 2008 4:18 pm - Voted 10/10

interesting houses

Is that a common style in that region? Or are those modern vacation homes?

yatsek - Dec 15, 2008 8:38 am - Voted 10/10

Re: interesting houses

It was invented toward the end of the 19th century by Stanisław Witkiewicz Snr., painter and art critic. It's firmly based on the old local style though - see this

visentin - Dec 15, 2008 8:42 am - Hasn't voted

Re: interesting houses

You're talking about the Zakopane style, more exactly the wooden villas, which, as you say, where invented in the end of 19th century, and inspired from the old local style, a bit more sober.
But this local style of the region is much older, look for example at the constructions in Dolina Chocholowska which are more than 200 years old for few of them.
Slovakia (Jezersko is in SK) was also less influenced by the "Zakopane architectural fashion" than on the Polish side...

yatsek - Dec 15, 2008 8:56 am - Voted 10/10

Re: interesting houses

True that Spis(z) had/still has diverse architecture (say more Slovak) but the building in this particular picture (central position) is exactly in the Zakopane style that has been adopted all across the adjacent Podhale (surely most locals don't make it so sophisticated)

yatsek - Dec 15, 2008 9:18 am - Voted 10/10

PS: interesting houses

Having taken a more careful look, I must say it does look like we have:
1. the old local style (the two low buildings), probably the Spis variant
2. post-Witkiewicz Podhale style (middle)
3. like 1
4. modern Spis?

visentin - Dec 15, 2008 9:32 am - Hasn't voted

Re: PS: interesting houses

I am not so expert, but as you say we find some minor differences along the regions neighbouring the Tatras, look for example the style in Orava region

p.s: Yatsek, when do we drink a Zywiec together ? ;)

yatsek - Dec 15, 2008 10:30 am - Voted 10/10

Re: PS: interesting houses

Or this (actually, I suppose you know it, but non-Polish people probably don't)
Żywiec! Now you're talking!!! :D I'd love to, perhaps along with Zlaty Bazant and Budweiser (Czech, not US:) but I'm afraid this will have to wait at least a few months. At the moment it's much easier for me to meet up on the Net (tapping the keyboard's part of my today's job as well) though we, in theory at least, don't live far away from each other.

visentin - Dec 10, 2008 2:32 am - Hasn't voted

Re: interesting houses

both ! this shape of house, with wooden beams and roof ended with angles, is typical of the region of the Tatras and surroundings. This one is in particularly good state and clean, so I guess it is one reconverted into a holiday cottage. There are some ski lifts in the village and it's a holiday destination for many people, mostly from Cracow.

yatsek - Dec 15, 2008 1:52 pm - Voted 10/10

But

the other one you took of Jezersko seems typical of Spis

visentin - Dec 16, 2008 2:35 am - Hasn't voted

Re: But

I just realized it's a mistake. It's not in Jezersko but on the other side in Bachledova dolina :)

yatsek - Dec 16, 2008 7:57 am - Voted 10/10

Re: But

Spis(z) anyway BTW Sounds like talking to your son in Polish:D

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