Willa "Kasprowy Wierch" Zakopane

“Kasprowy Wierch” Villa

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Dzień chyli się ku zachodowi. Niebo bezchmurne. Na wprost jednopiętrowa, duża, drewniana willa w jasnym kolorze, z dachem pokrytym blachą, z wieloma małymi oknami, z balkonem pod po środku na pierwszym piętrze i drugim nad nim, z jaskółką na poddaszu. Pod balkonami drzwi wejściowe. Przed drzwiami kilka schodów przykrytych wykładziną. Nad wejściem napis Hotel Kasprowy Wierch. Po prawej i lewej fragment drewnianego ogrodzenia i zamknięte parasole.

ul. Krupówki 50b, 34-500 Zakopane Tourist region: Tatry i Podhale

tel. +48 182012738

This spacious house was built in 1890, in the Swiss style and initially served as a hotel in the hydrotherapy facility of Dr. Bronisław Chwistek. In the interwar period, the doctor's son, the philosopher Leon Chwistek, ran a guesthouse here called "Gerlach", which was then transformed into the hotel “Kasprowy Wierch”. After changing fortunes in the following decades, when the building was used as an office and a school, it returned to its former glory in 1993 and a hotel with a renowned restaurant operates there under the original name.

The villa was built in 1890 by Bronisław Chwistek, who was a popular doctor. His wife, Emilia Majewski, was a pianist and painter, a student of Jan Matejko and Karol Mikulski. Their son, Leon Chwistek – painter, critic and art theorist; mathematician and philosopher; member of the avant-garde group Formists; creator of aesthetic theories of “multiplicity of realities” and Zonism.

Dr. Chwistek opened one of the first hydrotherapy facilities in Zakopane here, called “Hygea”. After his death, the name of the villa and guesthouse was changed to “Gerlach”, and from 1936, a hotel operated in it under the name “Kasprowy Wierch”. In the following years, its purpose was changed many times. In the 1990s, a hotel started operating in it again. The villa is built in the Swiss style.