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Three days across the border

The ridge above Makov was a line on the map for four hundred years. Three days on both its sides: first Moravia, where the portáši guarded it, then the border itself and finally the Slovak kopanice.

Day 1 – where the portáši guarded the border

≈ 4 h 50 min

The Moravian side. It starts at two graves in front of a church and ends in a saddle named after a guardhouse of the portáši.

  1. Graves of the portáši

    30 min

    The tomb of the commander of the portáši, who guarded the border 1638–1830

    A portáši detachment was based at Valašská Bystřice; the tomb chests stand in front of the church.

  2. Drive to Pod Tanečnicí

    20 min

  3. Pod Tanečnicí

    40 min

    The last clearings left by Wallachian sheep • below the summit at 912 m a.s.l.

  4. Lunch

    1 h

  5. Drive to Hutisko-Solanec

    25 min

  6. Poskla

    45 min

    Three neighbouring sites with different habitats

  7. Drive to Soláň

    25 min

  8. Čarták

    45 min

    A saddle with a bell tower and an open-air gallery of wooden sculptures

    The saddle is named after a guardhouse of the portáši – what you saw on the graves in the morning was watched over from here.

Day 2 – along the line itself

≈ 3 h 55 min · 5 km

The border ridge of the Javorníky from Bumbálka. Out and back on the red waymarks, which follow the border exactly – the return is counted in the time.

  1. Drive to the Bumbálka saddle

    30 min

  2. The Bumbálka saddle–Trojmezí

    10 min

    0,5 km · waymarks: red (E3)

    A kilometre along the border cutting.

  3. The Tripoint

    20 min

    A boundary stone of 1906 on the summit of Trojačka

    Two markers a few dozen centimetres apart – the stone of 1906 and today's Czech-Slovak border marker.

  4. Trojmezí–Partyzán

    35 min

    2 km · waymarks: red (E3)

  5. The Partisan

    30 min

    A bronze partisan on the border the brigade crossed in 1944

  6. A snack on the ridge

    1 h

  7. The Bumbálka saddle–Partyzán

    50 min

    2,5 km · waymarks: red (E3)

    Back to the car on the same red waymarks.

Day 3 – the kopanice on the other side

≈ 4 h

Life on the Slovak side goes on below the ridge, in scattered settlements. There is driving between them and only short walks.

  1. Brest u Papají

    30 min

    Among the most massive in central Europe • in Makov's arms

    Local tradition had a tree planted beside every new house; this one outlived the houses.

  2. Drive to the Kršlisko settlement

    10 min

  3. Chapel on Kršlisko

    20 min

    A chapel with Cyril and Methodius decoration • ~1900

  4. Drive up above the U Jaši settlement

    15 min

  5. The source of the Kysuca

    45 min

    The river that gave a whole region its name • 65.6 km to the Váh

  6. Lunch in Makov

    1 h

  7. Drive to the Kasárne settlement

    20 min

  8. The Kasárne settlement

    40 min

    A mountain settlement named after barracks of 1833