Slovakia Local Customs

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Cuisine and Beverages   Bratislava

Cuisine and Beverages, Bratislava

 23 Reviews  On my trips to Slovakia I always tried some of the local beers. One of my favourite Slovak beers is the lager of Zlaty Bazant (Golden Pheasant). The brewery was founded in 1967 in Hurbanovo, and is... 

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Culture and Regular Events   Bratislava

Culture and Regular Events, Bratislava

 16 Reviews  Bratislava Music Celebrations :) sounds stupid but in Slovak it is Bratislavske hudobne slavnosti and it is worth to see. There are many great musicians and good music every year in the end of... 

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Behaviors   Bratislava

Behaviors, Bratislava

 13 Reviews  Hi, since I came here I noticed people from abroad like me may actually get confused by the Slovak language cause they say "Ano" to say Yes and "Nie" to say No. So sometimes they are replying to you... 

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KOFOLA-the local alternative to Coke

by GentleSpirit

My guide offered me a soft drink telling me it was the local alternative to Coke. Turns out that Kofola was presented as a substitute for coke/pepsi during the communist regime.I was told you could get the foreign soft drinks in those days, but they were much more expensive.So why not? Well, the taste wasn't bad, sort of like a mixture between coke and root beer actually. Not as sweet as coke/pepsi. Caffeine content must have been pretty high cause it sure gives you a nice jolt.

SNP (Slovak National Uprising)

by tyusen

We can find a lot of monuments of SNP (Slovenské Národné Povstanie or Slovak National Uprising in English: Slovaks rise up against Nazi in 1944) during our trip to Slovakia. SNP is very important event for them and is also the pride of them. This monument was taken at Kremnica and shows us that whole Slovaks (men and women, adults and children, old and young etc...), participated in the uprising.

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M.R. Stefanik

by tyusen

Milan Rastislav Stefanik is one of the most famous people in Slovakia and he played a material role in the independence of Czechoslovakia with T.G. Masaryk who was the founding president of her. Unfortunately, he died in a airplane accident on his way from Italy to Bratislava in 1919. By the way, there is an interesting episode for us Japanese. The birth of Czechoslovakia provisional government was declared at Paris 2 days after Stefanik arrived at Yokohama on Oct. 12, 1918 and then he was appointed as the Ministry of Defense. Czechoslovakia declared her independence at Prague on Dec. 28. He left from Japan on Nov. 13 and he met so many Japanese leaders including the Emperor Yoshihito to prepare for its independence beforehand. Anyway, the situation surrounding its independence changed during his stay at Japan.Of course I didn’t know who he was before I visited to Slovakia, but after my...

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A little bit of music

by Skipka

Typically Slovak music instrument is called FUJARA what is the long pipe decorated with nice ornaments ..it all depends on the owner of this great instrument. Skilled musician can make such a great music and if you're somewhere near Tatras or Krivan it will move your soul :) So I recommend to buy a cd or listen it somewhere, it is really special experience.Check out the website there u can order it or listen to the sounds of it. Really excellent work...

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Asking for help without success!

by csordila

Most of the slovakian people are very friendly, but there are many of them who do not want to help to hungarian tourists , even if they speak the hungarian language. I really do not know why they do so, although we were living together in a common country for a very long time.I have tried of course not only in hungarian, but in english and german as well, without any success. They just gazed on me, as if I would be an enemy and not a friendly tourist, who wants to spend a lot of money in their country.Slovakia will not get any tourist awards if some of the local people do not change this terribly behavior. That's too bed!!!

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General customs

by Amelei

There are actually quite a few customs regarding slovakia.The few things i have noted mostly are:- When everyone has a drink in there hands, Slovakians will toast to each person while looking them in the eyes. It is quite sweet really, not when there's 50 people in a room though :-)- Shoes are generally, if not always, taken off at the door and replaced by socks and slippers.

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Amusing Public Art

by Paul2001

One of the more colourful aspects of Bratislava, and in fact the rest of Slovakia too, is the wonderful use of unusual and amusing public artworks. Most these are some form of sculpture but not exclusively so. In Bratislava, scattered about the old town, are three statues called the Frenchman, the Photographer and the Peeper. In these photographs you can see the Photographer, who is suppose to resemble paparazzi, and the Peeper, actually a manhole worker with a busker beside him. The last photographer is one of many paintings I found in the windows of a derelict building near the cathedral. I thought that the man looked like Vincent Van Gogh.

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Big Business: Mining!

by lmkluque

Mining is big business all round the world. No less in Slovakia, especially around the area my family lived. This wall is a tribute to the life's work of the man of the house. The tools are symbolic as he was an engineer rather than a digger. This wall, dedicated to his work was interesting to me and it served as a great conversation piece as we sat around drinking rum and brandy after dinner and I learned about mining in Slovakia.If you have the opportunity of having a meal at home with someone you meet along the way take up the chance. The people are kind, generous of spirit and so much fun!

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A Style Of Their Own!

by lmkluque

Slovaks--at least the Slovaks I'd met--were well connected with their cultural history. They had traditional National Slovak songs, and more interesting to me, they had traditional local songs of their own villages. They even had wardrobes of traditional garb to be worn during special festivities.This gave me a sense of reaching past and beyond political changes to the essence of the people from which I came.This is something that seems to be falling to the wayside in many countries and I hope the people of Slovakia continue respecting their past culture in the future.

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Villages Escaped Modernization!

by lmkluque

In the cities of Slovakia the most common dwellings were the newer massive "Habitations," but in remote villages this wasn't so. Most everyone lived in private homes. I was interested to learn that a family's wealth was determined by the number of bedrooms--no matter how small they were. Another thing, this village had a common housing facility that villagers could use to accommodate guests if there weren't enough room in their homes, something like a hotel or hostel.

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