Do you know which place in the High Tatras is the most visited?

Tourists have been counted in Slovakia's highest mountains.

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The most visited place in the High Tatras has changed. Last year, it was Poprad mountain lake, this year, it is Hrebienok, the results of the tourist count in the High Tatras National Park showed.

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The tally took place on August 6. As Martina Petránová, spokesperson for the State Forest of TANAP informed, there were 18,624 tourists in the mountains that day.

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