"Today, Velké Úpa is connected by modern roads, but that was not the case at all. The valley between Maršov and Velké Úpa was so impassable until 1837 that when Emperor Joseph II visited the village in 1779, he had to go from Maršov via Albeřice to Mala Úpa and through Jana's shed to Velká Úpa. During this visit, he gave rise to the construction of a church and thus the establishment of a parish, so Velká Úpa finally separated from Maršov. It was only in the second half of the last century that tourism gradually developed, thus the cottagers found a new source of livelihood in providing Around the church and cemetery, a natural center of the mountain village with a rectory, a post office and shops was built.
Since 1980, Velká Úpa has been part of the town of Pec pod Sněžkou.
Already during the First Republic, there was a famous confectionery in the village in a half-timbered building."
