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UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
UNESCO World Heritage - Vlkolínec, Slovakia, is a picturesque village under the administration of the town of Ružomberok. Historically, however, it was a separate village. The first...
Vlkolínec - monument reservation of folk architecture
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UNESCO World Heritage - Wooden Church of Archangel Michael is located in the village Ladomirová in district Svidník in the Prešov region (Prešovský kraj). There are wall paintings (fresco...
Ladomirová - Church of Archangel Michael in Ladomirová
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UNESCO World Heritage - Square shaped in the beginning of 16th century, and forms the core of the city. A significant role in its formation played the building of the Town Hall and the...
Holy Trinity Square - Banská Štiavnica
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
UNESCO World Heritage - Štiavnica’s Calvary is one of the most beautiful baroque Calvaries in Europe. It is located on Scharfenberg (Sharp mount) hill, thus being visible from all sides...
Calvary in Banska Štiavnica
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UNESCO World Heritage - Starý zámok castle (Old Castle) is considered a “stone chronicle of the town“. Its walls are the gate to the oldest secrets of Štiavnica. Long ago it used to be a...
Old castle (Starý zámok)
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UNESCO World Heritage - The building of the Nový Zámok Castle (New Castle) is one of the architectural icons of the town. Its silhouette is unique in Europe; it reminds a rocket. It is...
New Castle (Nový Zámok)
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UNESCO World Heritage - Open Air Mining Museum (mining outdoor museum) is an exhibition on the surface and underground. Exhibition on the surface presents mining buildings and equipment...
Mining Museum – open-air museum
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UNESCO World Heritage - The building of Berggericht with a rich history hides a valuable Mineralogical exhibition with more than four hundred minerals from the whole world. A short (75 m)...
Berggericht – mineralogic exposition
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UNESCO World Heritage - The first written mention of Allsaints Mine in Hodrusa comes from 1378; however, it is likely to be more than 700 years old. It is a place where Hodruša mining...
Mine in Hodrusa
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UNESCO World Heritage - Long ago miners built an incredible water scheme composed of sixty interconnected water reservoirs, supplying energy for prosperous mining. The story of this...
Tajchs (artificial water reservoirs) of Banská Štiavnica
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
UNESCO World Heritage - Ottergrund Tajch has the highest altitude of all the reservoirs of the Štiavnica Mountains (801 m. a. s. l.). It is located on the educational trail of Milan...
Tajch Ottergrund
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UNESCO World Heritage - The descendant of the contemporary Klinger tajch was designed and built before 1760 by J. K. Hell. It was used for driving water-pumping machines of the shafts...
Tajch Klinger
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE
UNESCO World Heritage - Tajchs Large and Small Vodárenská together with Červená Studňa, they are located directly above the medieval heart of the town in the valley above Holy Trinity...
Tajch Large Vodárenská (Veľká Vodárenská)
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UNESCO World Heritage - The Historical Exposition Free Royal Town of Bardejov is located in a historical building, the Gothic-Renaissance Town Hall, built in 1505 - 1511. It presents the...
Historical Exposition - Historical Town Hall - Šariš Museum in Bardejov
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UNESCO World Heritage - Basilica of St. Egidius together with the historic town hall are dominants of city of Bardejov in the Region Prešov (Prešovský kraj). The history of the basilica...
Basilica minor of St. Egidius - Bardejov
The Orava forest railway was in the past part of Kysuce - Orava Forest Railway. It was forest railway from municipality Oravská Lesná  through the village Zákamenné  to village Lokca and...
Orava forest railway
The Orava forest railway was in the past part of Kysuce - Orava Forest Railway. It was...
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (2.2.1849 - 8.11.1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. First, he wrote in a traditional...
P.O. Hviezdoslav - Cottage of Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (2.2.1849 - 8.11.1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist,...
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (2.2.1849 - 8.11.1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. First, he wrote in a traditional...
Hviezdoslav - Museum of P.O. Hviezdoslav
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (2.2.1849 - 8.11.1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist,...
The Budatín Castle is a castle in north-western Slovakia, in Budatín - the part of city of Žilina. It is preserved and made available to the public. It was built as a guarding castle in...
Budatín Castle
The Budatín Castle is a castle in north-western Slovakia, in Budatín - the part of city...
Čachtice Castle became famous thanks to Elisabeth Báthory who was born in 1560. The Báthory family owned large properties in Hungary and especially in Transylvania. According to legend,...
Čachtice castle
Čachtice Castle became famous thanks to Elisabeth Báthory who was born in 1560. The...
The Slovak National Museum - Red Stone Museum invites public to tour  of part of the ground floor of the restored interior of the Budmerice manor house. Budmerice manor house was built...
Budmerice mansion
The Slovak National Museum - Red Stone Museum invites public to tour  of part of the...
The Schaubmar Mill is part of the Slovak National Gallery. It is the only well-preserved windmill in Slovakia with a functional milling technology. You will find an Exposition of  Mills...
Gallery of Contemporary Art - The Schaubmar Mill
The Schaubmar Mill is part of the Slovak National Gallery. It is the only...
Municipal Local History Museum in Fiľakovo works in premises of local Reduta (Vigadó) since year 1994. The original exposure of the museum was opened in August 1994. Almost exactly twenty...
Municipal Local History Museum in Fiľakovo
Municipal Local History Museum in Fiľakovo works in premises of local Reduta (Vigadó)...
Franciscan Father K. König was the first who came with idea to establish the castle museum in 1941. He established the first Castle Commitee as well. The Commitee began to gather money to...
Fiľakovo Castle - Castle Museum in Fiľakovo
Franciscan Father K. König was the first who came with idea to establish the castle...
Life of burgher in Stara Lubovna and city history draws closer the life of the middle-class in Stara Lubovna. The furniture from 19th century era, antique things many of which are the...
Burgher´s House Museum
Life of burgher in Stara Lubovna and city history draws closer the life of the...
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising has made available a permanent Slovak National Exhibition Tragedy of Slovak Jews in State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim on May 8, 2002....
Slovak National Exhibition in Oswiecim
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising has made available a permanent Slovak National...
The Slovak National Uprising began on 29 August 1944 (during World War II) as a revolt against the entry of the German Wehrmacht into the territory of the Slovak Republic. It was the...
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising - Museum SNP
The Slovak National Uprising began on 29 August 1944 (during World War II) as a revolt...
The organ from village Špania Dolina belongs among the historical jewels, it is almost 300 years old. Organ was built in the Church of the Lords Transfiguration in 1751, in the village of...
Organ Špania Dolina
The organ from village Špania Dolina belongs among the historical jewels, it is almost...
Nature of the north-eastern Slovakia and its Conservation The display presents characteristic representatives of north-eastern Slovakias flora, but particularly fauna (orographic units...
Natural Sciences Exposition - Šariš museum in Bardejov
Nature of the north-eastern Slovakia and its Conservation The display presents...
Roháč Waterfall (Roháčsky vodopád) is located in the Western Tatras (Západné Tatry), in Roháče Mountains in the Žilina Region (Žilinský kraj), in the Tvrdošín district. It is located on ...
Roháč waterfall (Roháčsky vodopád)
Roháč Waterfall (Roháčsky vodopád) is located in the Western Tatras (Západné Tatry),...

Regions in SlovakiaRegions in Slovakia

img Region Banská Bystrica (Banskobystrický kraj) Region Bratislava (Bratislavský kraj) Region Košice (Košický kraj) Region Nitra (Nitriansky kraj) Region Prešov (Prešovský kraj) Region Trenčín (Trenčiansky kraj) Region Trnava (Trnavský kraj) Region Žilina (Žilinský kraj)
Region Banská Bystrica (Banskobystrický kraj)
Region Bratislava (Bratislavský kraj)
Region Košice (Košický kraj)
Region Nitra (Nitriansky kraj)
Region Prešov (Prešovský kraj)
Region Trenčín (Trenčiansky kraj)
Region Trnava (Trnavský kraj)
Region Žilina (Žilinský kraj)

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Hviezdoslav - Museum of P.O. Hviezdoslav
Museum of
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (2.2.1849 - 8.11.1921) was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. First, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism. The exhibition is part of the P.O. ...
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Betliar Mansion
Mansion Betliar
The Betliar Museum is a specialized art-history museum oriented on the development of the residences of the aristocracy in the 18th and 19th centuries with the exhibition in the Betliar manor-house, a mediaeval castle exhibition at Krásna Hôrka and the Mausoleum in the Krásnohorské Podhradie. ...
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Budmerice mansion
Budmerice mansion
The Slovak National Museum - Red Stone Museum invites public to tour  of part of the ground floor of the restored interior of the Budmerice manor house. Budmerice manor house was built in 1889 by the count Ján Pálfi (1857-1934) with his young wife, Elizabeth Schlippenbach. The author of the ...
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Gallery of Contemporary Art - The Schaubmar Mill
Slovak National Gallery - Schaubmar Mill
The Schaubmar Mill is part of the Slovak National Gallery. It is the only well-preserved windmill in Slovakia with a functional milling technology. You will find an Exposition of  Mills and a Gallery of Contemporary Art, in which is especially presented modern and contemporary art and design. ...
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Memorial Nemecká - Museum of SNP
Museum SNP Nemecká
Exposure in the Ráztocká valley is administered by the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising. The new exhibition - Reprisals of Nazis and Shock Troops of Hlinka Guards in years 1944-1945 was made available in year 2003. The exhibition is devoted to one of the most tragic chapters of Slovak ...
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Snina Mansion
Snina Mansion
The mansion in city of  Snina is a classicistic mansion from the end of the 18th century. The mansion was built by Terézia van Dernáth in 1781. Countess Terézia van Dernáth was the granddaughter of the last male descendant of the Drugeth family who have been the lords of Snina since about 1321. ...
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