The epilogue
The whole story in pictures
Every photograph of the guide, line by line: the homes first, then the mountains, the water, the town and the days out. Drag a line or let it drift, and open any picture to see it whole.
First, the place
Szczyrk is a mountain town of the Beskid Śląski, in the valley of the Żylica, between Skrzyczne (1,257 m, the highest summit of the range) and Klimczok (1,117 m).
A first census counted its people in 1630. Visitors came after the First World War, and the first hut stood on Skrzyczne in 1924; the ski jumps and the lifts followed after the Second. Szczyrk has been a town since 1 January 1973.
Its name has two stories: the “szczyrkanie”, the clatter of stones in the mountain streams, or the bells of sheep on the high pastures.
Above the town, on a wooded slope, stand twelve homes in black timber houses, each named after a mountain bird. The pictures begin there.
The last scene
And then the door closes behind you.
The mountain stays outside the glass, and the evening is yours.
Every home here was made with love, down to the lamp you read by.
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