Świętokrzyskie Mountains

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The Kielce Bergland (Polish Świętokrzyskie, translated: Holy Cross Mountains ) is a 612 m high to just low mountain range in south-eastern Poland.

Geography

The mountain is located in the Province of the Holy Cross. The Świętokrzyskie province located in the southeastern part of central Poland on the plateau Kielecka, Niecka Nidziańska and the plateau Przedborska. The southern and eastern border of the province forms the Vistula. Among the most important rivers of this area include: Pilicą, Kamienna and Nida.

There it lies between the Vistula River in the south and the Pilicą in the north, about halfway between Warsaw and Krakow and east of Kielce. It consists of various mountain ranges, of which Łysogóry is the highest. In the mountains, which is largely reported as Świętokrzyski National Park, rises the Kamienna, a tributary of the Vistula.

Geology

In Kielce Bergland the oldest rocks occur in Poland -a-days. The mountain consists for the most part now available from marine deposits as greywacke, sandstones, shales and quartzites. In these rocks is ample evidence of the rich life in the former seas in the form of fossil traces of plant and animal organisms have received, many of which have been scientifically described. The rocks were folded for the first time during the Caledonian orogeny about 450 million years ago. During the Variscan orogeny in front of around 360 million years they have been deformed a second time and folded into a mountain. In the following years the mountain has been largely removed and covered by young sediments, but it came in the Neogene tectonic processes associated with the wrinkling of the Carpathians again to uplift, so the old layers of rock were exposed again.

In the two million years of the Quaternary the Kielce Bergland was temporarily covered by a glacier.

Mountains

To the mountains in the Łysogóry chain include:

• Łysica (612 m n.p.m. )
• Lysa Gora (also called Lysiec 595 m, partly estimated on 593 m;. Good views possibility Monastery Święty Krzyż on this mountain gave the mountain the name )
• Agata (607 m)

Leisure

In addition to hiking trails, the mountains offer opportunities for winter sport. In the villages around the mountains holiday breakfasts and guest houses can be found. In Nowa Słupia is the museum an iron works, which is home of the annual ironworks Festival.

Places

Among the places that lie directly in or on the Holy Cross Mountains, include:

• Bieliny
• Bodzentyn
• Chęciny
• Kielce
• Krajno
• Łagów
• Nowa Słupia
• Psary
• Skarżysko -Kamienna
• Starachowice
• Suchedniów
• Święta Katarzyna
• Tarczek
• Waśniów

• Mountains in Poland
• Geography ( Holy Cross Voivodeship )