Starý Smokovec is a part of the town of Vysoké Tatry

Vysoké Tatry (town)

Vysoké Tatry , informally Mesto Vysoké Tatry , is a town at the feet of the Slovak part of High Tatras in Slovakia including all the major resorts in that region...

 in northern Slovakia in the Tatras. Its name is pronounced approximately "Star-EE Smoke-oh-vets", meaning "Old Smokovec".

Starý Smokovec is a popular resort for skiing and hiking. It also forms the junction of the Tatra Electric Railway

Tatra Electric Railway

The Tatra Electric Railway , colloquially Tatra Railway, is an electrified single track narrow gauge railway in the Slovak part of the Tatra mountains...

 train line, connecting Poprad

Poprad

Poprad is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatra Mountains famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. It is the biggest town of the Spiš region and the tenth largest city in Slovakia with a population of approximately 55,000.The Poprad-Tatry Airport is...

, Tatranská Lomnica

Tatranská Lomnica

Tatranská Lomnica is a town in the Slovakian part of the High Tatras mountains. It is a skiing and hiking resort best known for the cable car to Lomnický štít, one of the steepest in Europe and remarkable for its lack of support pylons between the two stations...

 and Štrbské Pleso

Štrbské Pleso

Štrbské Pleso with its large glacial mountain lake is a favorite ski, tourist, and health resort in the High Tatras, Slovakia. With extensive parking facilities and a stop on the Tatra trolley and rack railway, it is a starting point for a host of popular hikes including to Kriváň and...

.

Amongst the more important buildings in the district are the sanatorium

Sanatorium

A sanatorium is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis before antibiotics...

 and the Grand Hotel (established in 1904). It is connected by funicular to the small ski resort of Hrebienok

Hrebienok

Hrebienok is a small ski resort in the Tatra Mountains, in northern Slovakia. It is connected by funicular to the town of Starý Smokovec, which is in turn part of the Tatra Electric Railway.-Sources:*http://hrebienok.slovakian-mountains.eu/...

at 1285 m.

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Further reading

• http://www.tanap.sk/starysmokovec.html
• http://www.vysoketatry.com/obce/ssmokovec/en.html
  • http://www.vysoketatry.com/mapy/ssmokovecd/ssmokovecd.html - map of the town.
• http://www.vysoketatry.org/skiing/hrebienok.html - skiing information.