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hrad Devín/Devín Castle   Bratislava

hrad Devín/Devín Castle, Bratislava

 20 Reviews  Devin castle is a wonderful day (or half-day) trip from bratislava.. it's just over 120 kilometres far, which means about 20 minutes by car/bus or 90 minutes by boat (but only 30 minutes back). The... 

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Slavín/Slavín Monument   Bratislava

Slavín/Slavín Monument, Bratislava

 16 Reviews  The Slavin War Memorial is surrounded by many gravestones of fallen Soviet soldiers, who died during the liberation battle against the Nazis in WWII. Some of the gravestones are adorned with black... 

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Boèné ulièky/Off the beaten streets   Bratislava

Boèné ulièky/Off the beaten streets, Bratislava

 16 Reviews  At Rudnayovo namestie between Panska street and St. Martin's Cathedral are two buildings in decay. It looks like they might be demolished in the near future. Nevertheless, some artists have painted... 

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Zámky a mestá v okolí/Nearby Chateaus and towns   Bratislava

Zámky a mestá v okolí/Nearby Chateaus and towns, Bratislava

 6 Reviews  go to the SAD bus station, find a bus to Trnava, and pay the driver the 50 or 60 crowns to get there. Takes about an hour to get there, Once you get off the bus. Look to the North West and there will... 

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Èuòovo/ Cunovo   Bratislava

Èuòovo/ Cunovo, Bratislava

 2 Reviews  A modern art museum built on a dam in the Danube. Sounds odd? It is. However, it is great fun and a easy way to get out of Bratislava for some time. Use public transport: take bus no. 91 (Bratislava... 

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Sad Janka Krá¾a/The Garden of J. Kral   Bratislava

Sad Janka Krá¾a/The Garden of J. Kral, Bratislava

 2 Reviews  To cross the river and take a walk in Sad Janka Krala is a nice off the beaten paths :) activity. It used to be here the small funfair where I rode a centrifuge first time. This bank of the river... 

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Gabcikovo Slovakian Panama Channel :)

by Skipka

Well, if you are in bratislava or nearby, it is a one day trip by boat and you won't regret that at all. There is possible to go through the iron door of the damn and enjoy the technical attraction on the river Danube. However, the surroundings of Danube is much more interesting, there is great environment for wild life such as bunches of birds and fish. :) Especially in the summer people enjoy to go along the Danube banks to ride bicycles or rollerblades. See my Gabcikovo site

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Mala Fatra Mountains

by matcrazy1

Mala Fatra Mountains and National Park was located south of highway 583, I drove. It's highest summit (1709 m = 5607 ft) is called Velky Krivan (Big Krivan). Drive to village of Terchova on highway 583 and turn southward along Vratna Valley (Vratna Dolina) towards popular ski center Vratna. There is a chair lift to Velky Kryvan (close to the summit) there. I was there in late 90' (in beginning of May), unfortunatelly there was raining down and snowing up so I wasn't lucky to admire beautiful landscapes there :-(.

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Lime rocks

by matcrazy1

Both Mala Fatra and Kysucke Vrhowiny were realatively young mountains so there were quite a lot lime rocks there like in the Tatra Mountains. They looked especially amazing lighted by automn/fall sun with colorful leaves at this time of year. Most famous rock formation are placed south of village Terchova along the highway to popular ski center Vratna in a valley called Vratna Dolina (Vratna Valley). I was there once (must find pics) in late 90' and although it was raining down and snowing up I liked there a lot.

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Wooden bridges

by matcrazy1

When we got off our car to take a short walk in Parnica we had to cross this wooden bridge over Zazrivka River on my picture. Hiking many times around Slovak mountains (close to Poland) in the past I discovered a lot of such simple bridges and more primitive ones like just a trunk of tree put over the river/stream. Sometimes it was not so easy to cross a river :-).

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Experience the beauty of the nature... ;)

by evert_n

In Slovensky Raj national park in the High Tatry mountains. Nåja, seriously it was nice and green and.. but coming from Finland it wasn't anything really special for me - maybe it is for you, or maybe we were in the wrong place. Great place for hiking for sure.

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Colours of the fall (autumn)

by matcrazy1

The area of the manor in Vysni Kubin was fenced by low, white wall covered by wooden tiles. It looked amazing especially at places where was adittionally hidden among plants of golden-brown colours of fall/autumn.Btw fall/autumn or better to say very late September and early October (usually) was the best season to amaze colors of automn/fall trees and bushes in this part of Slovakia.

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Manor houses

by matcrazy1

There were quite many, usually less or more neglected amazing manor houses in Slovakia. Some of them were or still are restored and renovated like renaissance manor house from 17th c. with amazing onion-shape domes in Vysni Kubin. If you see only the well-known high architecture buildings it will give you a false view of what most towns were like in Slovakia. The merchants and princes of Slovakia were rich enough to build great houses in the past of which many luckily survived till now.

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Roofs for wintertime

by matcrazy1

Most of local houses in mountain villages had pitched or more steep gable roofs. Why? Although they looked much better than flat roofs they must be more expensive. Just my theory on it: there are heavy snow falls there at least from time to time in wintertime. Flat roofs would not endure tons of snows. People would be obliged to remove snow from their houses flat roofs which means - believe me - a lot of hard work.

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Dormer windows

by matcrazy1

I found many nice looking dormer windows walking around Slovak towns and villages. Just look around.Dormer window (or shorter dormer) in English means a window sticking out from a sloping roof. The word derives from Latin word "dormire" which means to sleep. People used to put bedroom just under the roof of their houses not heavy lighted by dormer windows.

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Local, hidden churches

by matcrazy1

Slovaks are mostly Roman catholics. I found a lot of catholic churches ("fara" in Slovak language) in each city and at least one in most villages. They were often restored, clean and well kept. Their interiors were usually highly decorated with paintings, frescos etc. and contained wooden benches for prayers and often wooden roof and columns as well. Many of the churches looked very pretty, some (minority) were wooden.WARNING: in contrast to Poland I found many of them closed except on Sunday.One example on my picture: the parish church in Oravsky Podzamok. It was located in a small well-kept public park and had a small but well seen tower roofed in red iron sheet. Lovely, tiny architectural design looked as it was renovated recently. The church was built in 1831 with tower and facade added in 1900.

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