Refuge in Lupkow
The Bieszczady Mountains have their well spread and long-established legend of Poland's most wild areas. One of the most important elements of this legend is a half-a-century long history of the most specific Bieszczadas pioneer farms, first of them being erected in early fifties, when the state authorities enabled human settlement in the region, few years after huge ethnic cleansing being conducted in the area. Thus, Bieszczadas farms made the local legend being
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Łupków Pass or Lupkov Pass (Polish: Przełęcz Łupkowska, Slovak: Lupkovskż priesmyk) is a significant mountain pass in the Carpathian mountains on the border between Poland and Slovakia, and close to the western border of Ukraine. Its highest point rises 640 m above sea level. It is located just south of the village Łupków in Poland and north of Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Underneath the pass runs a railway tunnel 642 m long, straddling the border between Poland and Slovakia.
