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In this low-lying region, the Gory Swietokrzyskie , only 600m at maximum, appear surprisingly tall. Running for almost 70km east from Kielce, the mountains' long ridges and valleys, interspersed with isolated villages, are popular and rugged hiking territory, the core of the range now protected within a national park area. During World War II the area was a centre of armed resistance to the Nazis: a grim, essentially factual account of life in the resistance here is given in Primo Levi's book If Not Now, When , in which he refers to the area as the Holy Cross Mountains - a literal translation of their Polish name.
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