Vysny Kubin Travel Guide

 matcrazy1 Says:  The best way to explore the area of Vysni Kubin (add surrounding mountains!) is to walk around. A village is a few kilometers long. You can walk to Vysni Kubin from nearby (3 - 4 km) town of Dolni Kubin - main town of this region (Orava).If you are tired you always can take... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  I noticed that there were quite a lot of Slovaks riding a bicycle for recreation on weekends. They love mountain riding especially. Hmm... rather for stronger VT-ers equipped with good mountain bicycles.Bring your own bicycle or rent it - ask in Dolny Kubin tourist... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  There are scheduled buses (very many on bussines days) from both Dolny Kubin (8 min.) and Ruzomberok (approx. 30 min.). They stop at Vysni Kubin just by the manor's house and Hviezdoslav monument at the bus stop on my picture and they are cheap. Don't worry, local buses look... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  Watch for fast moving cars when you cross the highway E-77 - use pedastrian crossing (xing). This highway is the main, transit, north-south Slovak itinerary connecting Poland (Warsaw, Krakow) and Hungary (Budapest). Although the traffic was small on Saturday's midday (in... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  A few building added to the main manor house looked not very interesting. Especially long building with very small square windows and the roof covered by red tiles looked like... chicken farm, in my opinion. Or maybe there were horse stable there?The area where the houses... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  There were frescos of the same Coat of Arms at the center of both tympani of the manor house. I didn't get to know which families used this coat of arms :-(, but looking at the manor house it had to be quite rich and noble family. I only got to know that Vysni Kubin belonged... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  The manor house had two tympani, each covered by frescos - pictures made by painting on wet plaster - that is mixture of sand, lime and water - on a wall. I found it interesting because painting in fresco is not common technique nowadays and they were quite good... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  Top, triangle-shape area of front facade of ancient Greek and Roman temple was called tympanum and usually was covered by frescos or sculptures. Tympanum (plural "tympani") was often used in quite later architecture styles: Renaissance and neo-clasicism especially which both... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  I found some architectural details which seemed to be Baroque in style at the manor house. For example those curving lines at the top of sidewall of the house added to the main building.Baroque came to Slovakia from both Italy and France (through Germany: Saxonia - eastern... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  The manor house was originally built in late Renaissance style somewhen in 17th century and rebuilt many times later. Primo because damages made by people (wars) and nature (fire, snow, winds), secondo just to be trendy.Anyway some parts kept its original Renaissance look as... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  Kathy (Kodi01) paid her attention to these direction signs standing on E-77 Highway oposite to the manor's house. Why? Becuase of funny name (in English) of a village... LUCKY. In real, lucky means a meadow in Slovak language. Btw Lucky is a village on slopes of Chocske... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  Vysni and Dolny Kubin are located in a valley surrounded by a few ranges of mountains. The closest mountains are located south-east and called Chocske Vrchy with the highest summit of Velky Choc (1611 m = 5285 ft).Buy detailed (very detailed) map of Chocske Vrhy in Dolny... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  The area of the manor 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... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  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 small dormer windows. This one... 

 matcrazy1 Says:  I paid special attention to a few, smaller and bigger wooden, onion-shape domes. Their shape remained me a little a few old orthodox churches/temples I was lucky to see in eastern Poland for example. Eastern influences in Slovakia? Eastern? Surprised? Hmm... most of...