Karpatská krajina ako kultúrny fenomén

Anotace: Since the 14th century new elements in the landscape have been created after the deforestation by fire above the upper forest limit up to the (sub)alpine belt of the Carpathians based on the Wallachian law: pastures, shepherd’s huts, settlements and towns, which have become the cultural phenomena. A shepherd’s hut was the base where a shepherd produced dairy products from sheep’s milk. The magic was inherited from an older generation to a younger generation and he kept the community together by the mysterious supernatural means. About 30 toponyms have been preserved from the period of the Wallachian colonization. The Wallachian footpaths are being kept, the longest one leads along the whole Carpathians (in Slovakia from Vyšný Komárnik to Devín, out of it 80 km go along the ridge of the Low Tatras) and it is connected with the international tourist arterial road E 8. In Slovakia the Carpathian landscape as a cultural phenomenon is characterized by five shepherd’s products labelled by the protected geographic marks in the EU and also as the traditional specialities. The UNESCO World Heritage list recorded the following phenomena related to shepherd’s way of life: the Carpathian beech primeval forests, wooden churches, the Slovak shepherd’s long pipe and its music, Terchová music, Bagpipe and bagpiper’s culture, the Upper Hron pricksong singing and the Slovak shepherd’s long pipe trombita.