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Koliba pod Barancom

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Casino Apolon

The place

Koliba pod Barancom (Sheepfold below the Baranec) in the western High Tatras, Liptovský Mikuláš/Žiarska dolina area (Slovakia), at 1411 m altitude, on the north-eastern foothills of the Baranec summit (2185 m). A koliba (a traditional wooden sheepfold used during summer grazing for making bryndza, a PDO cheese) in the glacial valley of Žiarska dolina. An area of Swiss pine, larch, and subalpine calcareous grassland in the TANAP national park.

The setting

High Tatras, Žiarska dolina, Liptov, Slovakia, 1411 m, below Baranec 2185 m, koliba bryndza PDO, TANAP Swiss pine/larch.