Gorny Smokovec (Slovakia)

When, in the second half of the 19th century, a wooden observation tower was built east of the village of Stary Smokovec, to which the trail, which was popular in those years, led to, the place was called the "Great Perspective." Since 1926, in a great perspective, family pensions began to appear. This concentration of residential buildings in 1930 was officially declared the new Tatra settlement and named Gorny-Smokovec. ^[one]

Since 1926 , after the observation tower was built, family pensions began to appear here (villas Klara, Irma, Dagmar, Vlast, Siesta, etc.). They were built mainly by hotel employees, who gradually got rich and took advantage of the tourists' interest in a quiet holiday in small and inexpensive establishments with a family atmosphere and home catering. Two well-equipped climatotherapeutic sanatoriums, Dr. Jan Opatrny (1928) and Dr. Julius Goltzmann-Gorny (1935), were built on the territory.

Jan Opatrny, MD (born in 1900 in Vodnany (present-day Czech Republic)) provided medical care, and his wife Zdenka Opatrna (born in 1901 in Prague) led the sanatorium. In the sanatorium, tuberculosis patients were treated. ^{[2] [1]} .

After the war, in 1948 , the hospital was transferred to the state. The Children's Health Resort “Gorny-Smokovec” was created - a medical institution for children whose parents were ill with tuberculosis. In 1971, the health resort reorganized and began to treat children with respiratory diseases. The place was part of the Czechoslovak, later Slovak resorts. ^[1] . On January 1, 1997, the building of the health resort on the basis of the right to restitution was returned to the heirs of the previous owners. The granddaughters of the spouses of Opatrny Karin Fresova and Bibiana Prekopova decided to keep the hospital and continue to treat patients with respiratory diseases.

The Nizhnesmokovets Institute of Pediatric Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases opened a mother and child pavilion in 2001 in the village of Gorny-Smokovec. The Institute provides medical care to children under the age of 6 years. ^[3]

After 1948, boarding houses began to be used as union holiday homes. In the second half of the 20th century, the new Bellevue and Sport hotels belonging to the Tatra Interhotel were built on the territory of the village. In the same period, a rest house of production cooperatives “New Life” and “Uniorotel” was built (belonged to the Youth Travel Agency). ^[1] After 1989, all properties became privately owned.

In 1954, the Vlasta Villa housed the Eight-Year Secondary School; a little later, some classes were transferred to the Lipa Villa. Since 1961, in the villa "Lipa" there is a technical school, training in the specialty of a cook and a waiter. ^[four]

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  Villa Vlasta, the first building in the territory that later became the village of Gorny-Smokovec

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  Sanatorium of doctor Opatrny, today Gorny-Smokovec Resort

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  Mother and child pavilion in the village of Gorny-Smokovec

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