This is the place where a partisan group of Miloš Uhr, a hero of the Slovak National Uprising, camped in October 1944. The memorial is named after the earth-houses built ...
One of the saddest places that remember heavy partisan fights is located in the remote areas of the Podjavorina region near the town of Stará Turá and the Moravian border...
Above the picturesque village of Lubina, there is a small hill of Roh. The hill itself is covered by a dense vegetation of pine, only the top is deforested and there is a...
The Barrow on the Bradlo Hill is a reverent place where Milan Rastislav Štefánik is buried - one of the most important Slovaks and co-founder of the first independent Cze...
On the ridge of the White Carpathians, on the border of Slovakia with the Czech Republic, just about six kilometers above Topolecka, there is a monument of lieutenant-col...
Čachtice Castle was founded in the first half of the 13th century. It was one of the first castles to secure the western border of Hungary, especially in the 13th century...
The ruins of Branč Castle are situated on the hill of Myjava Uplands above Podzámok - the local part of municipality of Podbranč. The castle is divided into two main part...
Dvoly is located near Brezová pod Bradlom in the Brezová part of the Little Carpathians. This is the place where the partisan section of Ján Repta of II. M. R. Štefánik P...
As a commemoration of the events of 1944 and 1945, which took place in the area of scattered settlement of U Rehušov, but also at Horné and Dolné Paseky, and also as a tr...
Church of St. Michal Archangel in Lančár with its monumental appearance rises on the hill of the nature reserve Chríb and is the most significant landmark of the surround...
Dobrá Voda Castle is a ruin of a Gothic castle situated in the central part of the Little Carpathians above the village of Dobrá Voda in the Trnava District.
The castle ...
The village of Hlboké is particularly connected with a significant figure of Slovak history. It is a prose writer, poet, cultural, political and religious publicist and p...
Beckov Castle rises on a high steep cliff above Beckov. The history of the castle dates back to the 12th century, when the old castle is mentioned in the chronicle by an ...
The Katarínka Monastery is actually the ruins of the ancient Church and the Monastery of St. Catherine of Alexandria. It is located in western Slovakia in the forests of ...
Tematín Castle, or better said the ruins that remain from it, are still majestically rising above the Váh river valley. Since the 13th century, this castle was the center...
Korlátka is a ruin of a castle from the 13th century. Its task was to protect the western borders of Hungary and guard the so-called Czech Route (Via Bohemica). This trad...
One of the publicly accessible caves in the Považský Inovec mountain range is the Great and Small Dolnosokolská Cave. These are two fissure caves in one created in the fo...
The town of Skalica boasts of a diverse tangle of sacral buildings with a rich history. Under many of them, underground crypts ar built, but not all are explored and made...
The church - the Rotunda of St. George is a national cultural monument and is located on a rocky spur about 5 km north of Nitrianska Blatnica. By easy climb we get under ...
At the highest point in the northern part of the town of Skalica, there is a beautiful classicist calvary. It was built by the Jesuits in 1703-1710 on the site of the ori...
The village of Buková is bordered by a steep hills of Záruby, where the ruins of the Ostrý Kameň castle (ie Sharp Rock Castle) have been preserved up to nowadays, rising ...
Immediately above the village of Podhradie, the romantic ruins of Topoľčany Castle rise to the heights. It was built at the end of the 13th century as a royal castle. The...
Driny Cave is the only accessible cave in western Slovakia. Although it is smaller and less rich in decoration, small visitors will enjoy plenty of bats that fly overhead...
Throughout western Slovakia, there are scattered communities called reoptants from Ukraine, who returned to their homeland after several decades of displacement from east...
If you ever wander through the woods near the villages of Zamarovce and Skalka nad Váhom, or if you will be around Trenčín, be sure to stop here for a while. Right in thi...
The oldest pilgrimage site in Slovakia is Skalka. It consists of two objects - Malá and Veľká Skalka. Malá Skalka consists of a two-towered church built in Romanesque sty...
In the beautiful forests of the village of Plavecký Mikuláš, hidden from the eyes of tourists, there is quite interesting natural creation - Deravá skala rock (ie Holey ...
The origin of the national sanctuary - the Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Šaštín dates back to 1736, when the present basilica, according to the plans of Matej ...
The Plavecký Castle ruin is situated above the village of Plavecké Podhradie on the Pohanská Hill in the western foothills of the Little Carpathians. The castle was built...
The city of Trnava could be compared to an exhibition hall of sacral buildings. The largest and most spectacular temple in Trnava is the two-towered Cathedral of St John ...