The pedestrianised Krupówki Street is one of the five most famous streets in Poland. It is about a kilometre long and stretches towards Gubalówka. To visit Zakopane and not feel its pulse beating is unthinkable. Here, for a few coins, clowns will make you laugh, mimes will perform a funny miniature, street musicians will play, and guys in bandanas will paint a futuristic graffiti landscape on a piece of cardboard. Remarkable works of portraiture, interesting, unusual and tasty products of local merchants, an abundance of tourists of different nationalities create an atmosphere of harmonious bustle and mental calm. Perhaps it is this unusual combination that creates its unique character and flavour. Here several of Zakopane's best hotels, shops, cafeterias and restaurants. Very close to the street market is the lift to Gubalówka Mountain.
Undoubtedly, tourists will be attracted by the national products of the Tatras - delicious bunz and oscilok cheeses, as well as woolen sweaters, fur coats and blankets, bast shoes, leather slippers, wooden kitchen utensils, tanned sheep skins, souvenirs and many other goods from numerous local shopkeepers.
When tired, it will be pleasant to take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage. On the parallel street flows the picturesque streams Bystra, Black Potok, White Potok, which turn into boulevards. Potok, which turn into raging torrents, flooding after heavy rains.
Just one day a year you can observe an unusual sight - flocks of sheep, driven into the mountains for summer pasture pass through the Krupówka.
