6:33:40 AM (UTC+02:00) Thursday, May 23, 2013
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The Protected Land-scape Area Kysuce lying in the far north-west of Slovakia is the world of hamlets, a unique narrow-gauge railway and mysterious stone balls.
The charming landscape of hamlets is situated at the frontier between Slovakia and Morava. It is picturesque and replenished with fine views. The round forms often alternate with limestone rocks, which are protected phenomena on both sides of the frontier as the Protected landscape area of Biele Karpaty.
The Protected landscape area Cerová vrchovina stretches in the territory of the eponymous mountain range in the south of central Slovakia. This territory is unique in Slovakia because it is the landscape of extinguished volcanoes.
The PLA Dunajské luhy with abundant occurrence of waterfowl is among the very recently designated PLAs in Slovakia.
The dominant of the PLA Horná Orava lying in the north of Slovakia is the majestic mountain Babia hora. The PLA contains thick forest, humid peat bogs, typical villages as well as the “Sea of Orava” - the water reservoir.
Alluvial forests and swamps on the flats of the lowland Východoslovenská nížina are protected in the Protected landscape area Latorica.
The PLA Malé Karpaty occupies a substantial part of the eponymous mountain range, which separates the lowlands Záhorská and Podunajská. The PLA represents the “green lungs“ of the mostly deforested and flat south-western Slovakia.
The Protected landscape area Poľana situated in the very heart of Slovakia is typical for dense forest and wonderful alpine meadows. For its assets this PLA has been included among the World Biosphere Reserves.
The mountain Zobor is the indivisible part of the old town Nitra in the west of Slovakia. It is the easternmost situated mountain of the Protected landscape area Ponitrie.
The PLA Strážovské vrchy in western Slovakia is an attractive world of bizarre rocks, dense forests and picturesque basins and valleys.
The natural setting of the mountain range Štiavnické vrchy stretching in the centre of Slovakia is protected since 1979 in form of the Protected landscape area Štiavnické vrchy, which includes a unique set of mining monuments and the gem among the Slovak towns - Banská Štiavnica (the UNESCO monument).
Protected landscape area Vihorlat stretches in the eponymous mountain range in the east of Slovakia. It is now densely forested mountain massif with the typical water body of the dam Zemplínska šírava in the background.
The Protected landscape area Východné Karpaty is situated in the north-eastern tip of Slovakia - it forms hinterland to the National Park of Poloniny. It is the realm of beech woods and home to wolves and lynxes.
The lowland Záhorská nížina in the west of Slovakia is the proof that a flat landscape can also be attractive and interesting. It is coated by pine forest, and enjoys the reputation of a paradise for mushroom pickers. Valuable setting of pinewoods and the well preserved alluvial forest around the river Morava are legally protected since 1988 under the PLA Záhorie statute.