Monastery Gorge    Map

    A ravine created by a creek springing beneath Kláštorisko and flowing directly into the Hornád river. Although it had been known already before, it was open to public only in 1960. The first step that allowed this was the fact of building a rope gangboard at the estuary of the Monastery Gorge. It was the first stage of the process of opening the Prielom Hornádu (Hornád Canyon) to public.
    The order of waterfalls by hiking the gorge: Objaviteľov vodopád (Objaviteľov Waterfall), vodopád Antona Straku (waterfall of Anton Straka) - author of the tourist guide of the Eastern Slovakia published in 1921 and describing the Slovak Paradise as well), Dúhový vodopád (Rainbow Waterfall), kaskády Gustáva Nedobrého (Cascades of Gustáv Nedobrý) - a famous tourist guide, Malý vodopád (Small Waterfall), vodopád Kartuziánov (Cartesian Waterfall), Machov vodopád (Machov Waterfall).

ACCESS: On foot from Hrabušice, Letanovce, Spišské Tomášovce, Smižany or Spišská Nová Ves.
SURROUNDINGS: Kláštorisko, Letanovský mlyn (Letanovský Mill), Podlesok, Prielom Hornádu (Hornád Canyon) and Tomášovský výhľad (Tomášovský View).


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