Bratislava
If you focus on the compact historic centre, you’ll see cobblestoned roads, pedestrian plazas, pastel 18th-century rococo buildings and street cafés galore.
If you focus on the compact historic centre, you’ll see cobblestoned roads, pedestrian plazas, pastel 18th-century rococo buildings and street cafés galore.
Wooden churches, sprawling castle ruins, crashing waterfalls – just beyond the High Tatras lies the most intriguing, and least accessible, region in Slovakia.
People just naturally seem to congregate along the long town square where café terraces line the streets and monumental architecture fills the centre.
All of West Slovakia might be considered a day trip from Bratislava.
What’s not to like about a place with a mighty clifftop castle, pretty Renaissance buildings and a lively university population? Here you could easily spend a couple of days touring the Roman fortress, day-tripping out to Beckov castle or the spa...
It may as well be the 15th century, this old town centre has been so enthusiastically preserved.
Medieval walls stand stolid and defensive, protecting the age-old centre from onslaught.
Rumbling waterfalls, steep gorges, sheer rockfaces, thick forests and hilltop meadows: Slovenský raj (Slovak Paradise; www.
A Slavic tribe in the 6th century was the first to recognise Žilina’s advantageous location at the intersection of several important trade routes on the Váh river.
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