Stará Bystrica, tourist attractions

The lookout tower on the Bobovec hill in Stará Bystrica was built in 2011 and opened on 27 August 2011. It offers you a beautiful view of Radôstka, Klubina, Nová and Stará Bystrica, as well as Malá Fatra. The lookout tower is brick, so visitors who are afraid of swaying wooden lookout towers do not have to worry. At the lookout tower there is a fireplace and a shelter with seating as well as information boards. The lookout tower and its surroundings are landscaped, upstairs there are brick spiral stairs. During the tour through this beautiful Kysuce region, be sure not to miss a visit...

The Slovak Astronomical Clock is the largest wooden statue in Slovakia. Located in Kysuce, in the center of Stara Bystrica, in the district Cadca. It represents the sitting Madonna, the Seven-Sorrowed Virgin Mary, the patron saint of Slovakia. The Astronomical Clock was completed in 2009. It was designed by the academic sculptor Viliam Lovišek and reworked into the drawing documentation by architect Ivan Jarin. Astronomical clock face is the heart of the astronomical clock. astrolabe, which is specially designed for the geographical location of Stara Bystrica. Part of the astronomical clock...

Do not miss the main attraction of summer in the resort Velka Raca, the toboggan run. The starting point of the track is at the top station of the chairlift in Dedovka. Its length is 1300 m, maximum speed 40 km / h, the number of curves 15, the number of hops 12 and the length of the lift is 420 m. The track extends from the top station Dedovka below the Chalet Koliba, along a few zigzags between the chairlift and ski slope No.2, where it passes through the forest, and finally through the beautiful...

The Nová Bystrica reservoir is located in northwestern Slovakia in the district of Čadca, in the area of Kysúc in the Žilina Region. It was built in the years 1983 - 1989 on the river Bystrica below the confluence of the river Harvelka and Riečnický stream. The construction of the dam created a large water reservoir for the surrounding region. There is a sidewalk on the dam of Nová Bystrica, from which there is a nice view of the water reservoir .. The surrounding picturesque nature with adjacent...

The mansion in Oščadnica was built in the years 1910 - 1913 by the Prussian Junker Count Ballestrem. At that time, the mansion served as a hunting lodge, and the count established a forest park with an area of over 3 hectares. The manor building is two-track and two-story, symmetrical to the central axis, oriented longitudinally in the east-west direction. Over time, the manor house changed owners and other buildings were gradually added to it. In 1976, the mansion became the property of the...