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Massive ruins of Spis Castle are lying on the travertine hill of 634 metres above Spis settlement around the castle. The ruins are the largest in Slovakia as well as in Central Europe. Although the first historical notes about the castle come back to the year 1120, archaeological evidence proves a settlement on the castle hill already in the 4th...
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The Dobšinská Ice Cave is situated in the Spiš-Gemer karst, in the national nature reserve Stratená, and by the character of glaciation belongs among the most important caves in the world. Ice fill occurs here in various forms and ice thickness reaches in some places 26 meters.
The cave is located on the south-western edge of the Slovak...
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Close to the state boundary with Hungary there is the Domica Cave, forming a single genetic unit with the Hungarian Baradla Cave. Except for the typical flowstone shields, drums and rimstone lakes, the visitors admire underground boat ride on the Styx River.
Located on the south-western edge of the Silická Plateau in the Slovak Karst National...
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It is located between Rožňava and Plešivec in the Slovak Karst National Park and Biospheric Reserve. Dominant elements in the Gombasecká Cave are thin and hollow straw stalactites reaching the maximum length of about 3m and in some places they are so dense that they remind a stone rain.
It is situated on the western foothill of the Silická...
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Jasovská Cave is located in the Medzev Upland in the western part of the Košice Basin. The cave became the first show cave in Slovakia in 1846, however the upper parts had been known as early as the 13th century and the inscription from 1452, which records the victory of Ján Jiskra’s from Brandýs military force, represents the oldest written...
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Ochtinská Aragonite Cave is a specific phenomenon also from the world caves perspective, which attracts every visitor by its variability, wealth and beauty of aragonite fill. It is located on the northern slope of the Hrádok Hill in the Slovak Ore Mountains on the road between Štítnik and Jelšava, 26 km from Rožňava. It is the only one of...
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Banska Stiavnica is the most important mining town in Slovakia. The first written notes of it are coming back to 1217. There are many historical places of interest in the centre of the town: Town castle from the 13th century, building of mining and forest academy, town hall form the 14th century, late Gothic St. Katharine Church from the 15th...
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The first written references about the town comes from the 13th century. The town’s economy reached its peak in the 15th century, when burgers prospered from the production and export of linen. In addition to the adjacent curative spa, the town also had , mills, a brewery, brickworks, a slaughter-house, and the town weighing scales,...
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Preserved site of folk architecture Vlkolinec is a part of Ruzomberok town and is located at the foot of Velka Fatra. Vlkolinec represents a type of medieval village site of wooden architecture in montane and submontane area. There is an undisturbed built-up area of cottages and chalets in landscape area made by narrow stripes of fields and...
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Wooden sacral architecture in the Carpathian arc(North-Eastern Slovakia, as a joint entry of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Hungary), unique churches from the 16th to 20th...
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