Poľana Protected Landscape Area

Poľana Mountains Protected Landscape Area (Slovak: Chránená krajinná oblasť Poľana) is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia.

It is situated in the Banská Bystrica, Brezno, Detva, and Zvolen districts.

Poľana was declared a UNESCO biosphere reserve on 27 March 1990.

The Protected Landscape Area was established on 12 August 1981, and the law was amended on 3 September 2004.

Protected areas declared before include the national nature reserves of Badínsky prales Old Growth Forest (1913),[1] Zadná Poľana (1953)[2] and Boky (1964), [3] and the nature monuments of Bátovský balvan Rock (1964)[4] and Kalamárka (1977).