Košice

Slovakia

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Sidewalk cafe at Hlavne namestie, Kosice, Slovakia

Why visit Košice

Equal parts pretty and gritty, Košice captures attention with its old town, a jewellery box of Gothic towers, medieval bastions and baroque sculpture. The pride of Eastern Slovakia's largest city is its central square, which boasts the country's greatest concentration of historic monuments.

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