Giant Mountains

The range is also often referred to in English as the "Giant Mountains".

In 1939 he painted the injured as well as ordinary soldiers in a military hospital located in the Giant Mountains.

This road finally created a connection between Iser and the Giant Mountains with a central Bohemian road network.

The airport is plentifully used for sport flying and sightseeing flights above Prachov Rocks eventually the Giant Mountains.

She translated the old German ballad The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains into English blank verse in 1846.

Mächtig and the sculptor Albert Manthe travelled through the Giant Mountains visiting natural waterfalls to get inspired.

The Prussian Second Army invading Bohemia had to split up in order to negotiate the difficult passes of the Giant Mountains.

Quite exceptionally, visibility may extend to the Austrian Alps and the Polish-Czech Giant Mountains hundreds of miles away.

It was perfectly located: in 1847, a main road was laid through the Giant Mountains between Reichenberg, Gablonz and Trautenau.

Menella Bute Smedley, for instance, translated his ballad, "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains."

Another opinion is that it was modelled on another waterfall in the Giant Mountains, the Hainfall, renamed after 1945 into wodospad Podgórnej.

There are several other "Elbe valleys", however, including that near the Elbe's source in the Giant Mountains area in the Czech Republic.

The Bałtyk-Karkonosze Tour is a cycling race in Poland that runs between the Baltic Sea and the Giant Mountains.

The founder of the institution, Rudolf Jedlička, donated to the school his own villa in Harrachov (resort in the Giant Mountains).

Lukas and Sandra get married and go together to the Giant Mountains to the Czech Republic, to remodel an old monastery into an eco-hotel.

The history of Vrchlabí started with the settlement of the Krkonoše Mountains (the Giant Mountains) - the highest Czech mountain range.

The name Corcontica refers to the Corconti, who lived in the Giant Mountains range, known also as the Riesengebirge, Krkonoše and Karkonosze.

It is situated in the central (Silesian) part of the main mountain range of the Giant Mountains, right above the villages Przesieka and Špindlerův Mlýn.

The first recorded German name was Riseberg ("giant mountain", cf. Riesengebirge, "Giant Mountains"), mentioned by Georg Agricola in 1546.

It offers a panoramic view over Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland as far as Dresden to the north and the ridge of the Giant Mountains to the east.

The Urft Dam was also the highest in Europe until the construction of the Bober Dam in the Giant Mountains of Silesia in 1912.

From the tower's galleries there is a unique view not only of Hradec Králové, but also of the distant peaks of the Giant Mountains and the Orlické Mountains.

The Krkonoše provide the setting for Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's "Der Hirt des Riesengebürgs," or "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains."

At the end of the 19th century two mountains clubs were founded, the German Riesengebirgsverein (Giant Mountains Club) on the Silesian side and the Austrian Riesengebirgsverein on the Bohemian side.

One can see the main ridge of the Jizera Mountains, Poland and Germany, Bohemian Paradise, the Giant Mountains, Ještěd, Jablonec nad Nisou and Bedřichov from the tower.