Things to do and tourist attractions v Košiciach 1 and surroundings

The Košice Castle is almost forgotten locality not only in awareness of Košice inhabitants. It almost does not appear in medieval written sources, and if appears, there a...

In the city district of Košice, Krásna, there is a beautiful national cultural monument - a Baroque-Classicist mansion dating back to 1780. During its history, it underwe...

The historic dominant and symbol of the eastern Slovak village of Budimír is the Classicist-Theresian mansion dating from the second third of the 18th century. The mansio...

The village of Sokoľ is surrounded by an unobtrusive hill Hrádek, which is interesting in terms of history. It is here that the ruins of the medieval castle Sokoľ, which ...

Not far from the village of Kysak, right on the hill with the characteristic name "Hrad" (The Castle), are the ruins of the extinct Kysak Castle. It is a medieval castle,...

Above the eastern Slovakian village of Obišovce, a conical hill called Zámčisko rises. This is the place where a medieval stone castle, from which only the ruins have bee...

Slanecký Castle was a Gothic castle from the 13th century, which was destroyed in 1679. One three-storey tower and several walls have been preserved. The gothic window ar...

In the beautiful surroundings of the Slovak Karst National Park, near the village of Jasov, right on a distinctive reef called Jasov Rock, there are ruins of Jasov Castle...

Bodoň are the remains of a castle built on a rocky ground in Sigord. The origin of the castle dates back to the 13th century. After the invasion of the Tatars into the ar...

Above the old mining town of Gelnica, which is mentioned as a free royal town already in 1276, on the site of an old castle from the 13th century, we can now see only the...

Near the town of Prešov, there are embossed remnants of the Zbojnícky Castle (ie Brigand Castle), also called Salt Castle, deep in the dense forests below the Kamenná mas...

The ruins of the Turniansky Castle are located on the karst hill above the village of Turňa nad Bodvou. The documents state the year 1357 as the year of building the cast...

On a rocky hill rising above the village of Podhradík, there are ruins of Šebeš Castle, whichis known only to a few tourists. The castle was built in the 13th century as ...

In the town of Trebišov, specifically in the city's historical park, there are unique ruins of a Gothic castle. Parič Castle used to be a representative seat of the arist...

Šariš Castle was a medieval power center of Šariš region. Its ruins are situated on a hill above the town of Veľký Šariš, northwest of Prešov. Archaeological research pro...

The ruins of the Kapušian Castle are situated on the hill Zámčisko above the village of Kapušany.

Kapušany Castle was built in the 13th century and served mainly to prot...

The church was built on a hill in the 13th century. Later it was fortified with stone wall and watchtower during the operation of John Jiskra of Brandýs. The church was t...

The ruins of Čičva Castle are located northeast of Vranov nad Topľou, above the village of Sedliská, the local part called Podčičva.

To this day, the exact year and circ...

The ruins of Lipovce Castle are hidden in a dense forest on the ridge of Jazvečí Hill, which borders the village of Lipovce. The castle once served a guard function and h...

Brekov Castle ruinstands on a hill by the road between towns of Humenné and Strážske. It was built in the 13th century as a guard castle on the Hungarian-Polish road.

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Spiš Castle is one of the largest castle complexes in Europe and is also our largest castle ruin. In 1993, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is curren...

Krásna Hôrka Castle is closed since March 10, 2012 due to reconstruction works.

The picturesque Gemer area in the very heart of Slovakia boasts of an unprecedented cultu...

The Zemplín Museum in Michalovce was founded in 1957 as a Zemplín Museum of Homeland Studies, and since 1965, it has been operating under the present name. The museum's c...

The village of Borša is the birthplace of Francis Rákoczi II. To this day, his native residence - the Renaissance manor of František Rákoczi - stands on the place where h...