Because as Hegel once said \u201cnothing great was accomplished in history without passion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cLibert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Fraternit\u00e9\u201d, the French national motto. The war cry of the French revolution.
It opened the door not only to progress, the Enlightenment, but especially to romanticism.
And with romanticism came emotions, phantasy and isolation, collision between dream and reality. A
romantic hero was an extraordinary personality, an outsider. He found asylum in love. In a tragic and
an unfulfilled love. So he turned to nature, which he admired and glorified.
And thus the romantic bourgeois, the hipsters of their time, all over Europe started to write. And
they wrote a lot.
Victor Hugo created Quasimodo, who suffered a tragic love for beautiful Esmeralda in Notre Dame;
Goethe\u00b4s young Werther suffered in Germany, because of an unfulfilled love, of course. And George
Gordon Byron quested across Europe. And in Slovakia suffered Andrej Sl\u00e1dkovi\u010d, a popular romantic
writer. His unfulfilled love to a Slovak poetical femme fatale was a theme for the longest love poem
in the world, Mar\u00edna. And later for Bank of Love in Bansk\u00e1 \u0160tiavnica.
And for the poem, dedicated to nature, Detvan. A hero, who runs wild across meadows under the
powerful and amazing Po\u013eana Mountain Range.
Let\u00b4s explore this marvelous and romantic region in detail! Let\u00b4s make a Slovak version of Homer\u00b4s
Odysseus and Byron\u00b4s Childe Harold journey!
Let\u00b4s explore Po\u013eana Mountains, the highest volcanic mountain range in Slovakia. Let\u00b4s hike to 1
457,8m high Po\u013eana Mountain, passing through wetlands, atop the crunching stones, admiring the
stream flowing from small springs, harkening to the bird\u00b4s singing and on the horse-shoe summit
enjoying the view: a silhouette of the High and Low Tatras drawn above the clouds.
Let\u00b4s move forward to Bukovina and Vepor Mountains, formed by lava from Po\u013eana\u00b4s underground
volcano.
And then let\u00b4s discover a large rock, creating the top of Hrb Mountain. The geographical center of
Slovakia!
And we still haven\u00b4t seen it all! Our romantic odyssey swaps our hiking boots for cycling shoes for
biking 320km of marked cycling trails and especially the 127km long trail around Po\u013eana Mountain.
And we have moved again! We climbed down the ladders to watch a huge mass of water boiling
down the black andesite rocks. The Bystr\u00e9 Waterfall, at 23m high, one of the highest and most
massive waterfalls in Slovakia, formed 13 billion years ago from lava.
The Dobro\u010dsk\u00fd primeval forest invites us for visit! A place where time has no importance. Where we
can come in only with a short view to admire an aboriginal forest, developing thought centuries.
Suddenly we are at a medieval dinner in the V\u00edg\u013ea\u0161 Castle, a \u201ccastle of kings\u201d, where the Dragon
Order was established.
Byron\u00b4s Childe Harold\u00b4s journey across Europe took 4 years. Homer\u00b4s Odysseus to Ithaca, 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And how long will you trek around the Po\u013eana Mountain? It is up to you! But do it with passion.
Because as Hegel once said \u201cnothing great was accomplished in history without passion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n