Levoča is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia with a population of 14,600. The town has a historic center with a well preserved town wall, a Renaissance church with the highest wooden altar in Europe, carved by Master Paul of Levoča, and many other Renaissance buildings. On 28 June 2009, Levoča was [...]
Banská Bystrica is a key city in central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. With 81,281 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia. It started as a permanent settlement in [...]
Košice is the most beautiful city in Slovakia. With approx. 250,000 inhabitants it is the 2nd largest city in Slovakia after Bratislava (5th largest in the former Czechoslovakia). It is considered a tolerant city, because there co-exist 10 national minorities. The largest one is the Hungarian (4.5%), which has its General Consulate of Hungary here [...]
Banská Štiavnica is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. For its size, the caldera is known as Štiavnica Mountains. Banská Štiavnica has a population of more than 10,000. It is a completely preserved medieval town. Because of their historical value, the [...]