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Snail-shaped Viewing Platform

On a breezy hilltop above the Poprad valley, a wooden walkway coils upward like the shell of a snail. The Snail-shaped Viewing Platform (popularly just "the Snail", or Ślimak in Polish) sits on Dzielnica hill in Wola Krogulecka, in the Beskid Sądecki range of southern Poland. Instead of a conventional tower, visitors follow a gentle spiral ramp to the top, so the panorama is reached without a single flight of stairs — and the reward is one of the broadest mountain views you can find for free in this corner of Małopolska. Opened in 2014 and designed by the studio 55architekci, the platform stands around 530 m above sea level, roughly 200 m above the river below. From the rim you look across the valley that splits the Beskid Sądecki in two: the Radziejowa range with its 1,266 m high point, the Jaworzyna Krynicka range, the Sądecka Basin, the Gorce mountains and the island-like peaks of the Beskid Wyspowy, with the village and castle ruins of Rytro in the middle distance.