Powiat Suski / Podbabiogórze

CULTURAL HERITAGE

Colourful folklore

Visitors to Podbabiogórze can get to know the rich cultural heritage of the region. Historically and ethnographically, there are three highland groups living here. The most numerous are the Babia Góra Highlanders occupying the southern part of the Sucha County. As early as in the mid-19th century, Wincenty Pol, a poet, geographer, and explorer of the Carpathian Mountains, wrote about the ‘Babiogórcy or Highlanders from Babia Góra, Jordanów and Sucha’ as a separate ethnographic group.

The western edge of the county is home to the Żywiec Highlanders and the north-eastern and eastern part to the Kliszczacy. The colourful folklore of these groups, created over the years, is alive today thanks to folk ensembles, bands, farmers’ wives’ associations and societies nurturing local traditions.

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