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Encyclopedia > Pec pod Snezkou

Pec pod Sněžkou (Petzer in German, Pec pod Śnieżką in Polish) is small town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has 580 permanent inhabitants. Hradec Králové Region (Czech: Královéhradecky´ kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia. ...


The town is one of the most well-known and most frequented mountain resorts in the Czech Republic, with year-round use and with accommodation capacity of 8,500 beds. A mountain resort is a place to holiday or vacation located in the mountains. ...


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Aerial view over Karkonosze Karkonosze (Polish name, pronounced kár-ko-no-she; Krkonoše in Czech; Riesengebirge in German) or Giant Mountains are part of the Sudetes Mountains in central Europe. ...

External links

  • Municipal website (http://www.pecpodsnezkou.cz/index_en.html)
  • City portal (http://www.mestopec.cz/default-e.html)
  • History and etymology of town name (http://www.boudamama.cz/index.php?cast=5&lang=en&menu=0&submenu=0&stranka=homepage.php)

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Accommodation in Pec pod Snezkou, Krkonose hotels (320 words)
Pec pod Snezkou - accommodation in hotels and pensions in the main tourist centers in Czech mountains Krkonose (The Giant mountains).
Pec pod Snezkou is one of the most popular holiday spot in all of Krkonose, not only for being located the highest mountains in the Czech Republic, amongst.
Pec pod Snezkou was originally a mining settlement called Obri dul in which vitriol used to be derived from sulphuric acid in the 15 hundereds (1500`s).
GOLDING: Pec pod Snezkou (637 words)
Pec pod Snezkou is one of three centres in the Giant Mountains, the highest Czech mountains, mainly used by skiers and admirers of winter sports who have their own back there.
Pec pod Snezkou (“Furnace under the Snezka mountain”), as its name suggests, is a point of departure for trips to Snezka, the highest mountain in the Czech Republic (you can get to its peak also by cable railway directly from Pec).
Pec pod Snezkou was connected with the mining industry and mining of copper and arsenic ores for long centuries.
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