Town of Karpacz, in the Karkonosze Mountains in southwestern Poland.

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(in the Karkonosze Mountains of southwestern Poland) Karpacz is a spa town in the Jelenia Góra County of Lower Silesian Voivodeship, and one of the country's most important centers for mountain hiking and skiing. It is a resort with increasing importance for tourism as a convenient alternative to the Alps. Located 17 km (~11 mi.) south of Jelenia Góra on the slopes of Mount Śnieżka, it is one of the most popular mountain resorts in Poland, offering skiing in winter and hiking the rest of the year. The eastern part, known as Karpacz Dolny (Lower Karpacz), has most of the places to stay and eat, while the western part, Karpacz Górny (Upper Karpacz), is largely a collection of holiday homes. Karpacz features quite a curious architectural treasure -- Vang Church, the only Nordic Romanesque building in Poland. This remarkable wooden structure in Upper Karpacz was one of about 400 such chapels built in the early 12th century on the bank of Lake Vang in southern Norway (only 28 of these 'stave churches' survive there today.) King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia bought this one in 1841, had it dismantled piece by piece, and then transported to Karpacz via Berlin.