The onetime eastern half of Czechoslovakia has come into its own, with its welcoming and happening capital Bratislava and a plethora of parklands, folklore, ancient cities and towns, castles, along with the Tatras Mountains.


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Bratislava in ´Capitals, Castles, and More on a Danube River Cruise´

Our contributor Victor Block writes: "My wife Fyllis and I visted Slovakia´s capital as part of the route of Grand Circle Cruise Line´s M/V Adagio along the Danube River as it flows through Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria (with a land extension to Prague). It's a route which took us to Budapest, Vienna, and Prague, three of the grandest and most stunning capital cities in all of Europe. plus Bratislava, which replicates some of their splendor in a more compact setting, and smaller towns that…

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In the west of the country, Trenčín is one of 2026´s European Capitals of Culture

Arto häkkilä Nestled in the scenic Váh River valley in western Slovakia near the Czech border, this charming midsize city (pop. around 55,000, its name pronounced "tren-CHEEN") can be reached by car from Bratislava in about an hour and a half to two hours, depending on traffic. Its history stretches back to antiquity, with its earliest name, Laugaricio, appearing in a Roman inscription dated to 179 CE, and it became a significant medieval stronghold and grew under the influence of regional…

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Jasná ski/snow resort in the Low Tatras

dragunoffOur blogger Felice Hardy writes:"Perhaps my favourite East European winter playground is up in the central north of this highly underrated country, a three-to-four-hour drive from capital Bratislava. Jasná on Mount Chopok in the Low Tatras range, because it has some of the best piste skiing, with 44.5km (28 mi.) of slopes rising to a top height of 2,005m (6,578 ft.), along with 22 lifts that are some of the most cutting-edge in this part of Europe. Jasná hosted the Freeride World…

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Bratislava's St. Martin's cited in '8 Gems among Europe's Lesser Known Cathedrals and Churches'

Uoaei1 Finally completed in 1452 after 141 years on and off, its 279-ft. spire dominating the Slovak capital's historic center, the white Gothic Katedrála Svatého Martina was from 1563 to 1830 the coronation church of the kingdom of Hungary and later Austria-Hungarian Empire (of which Slovakia was part until World War I). For a Roman Catholic cathedral it's surprisingly austere both inside and out, but does have a certain rustic charm.   read post  

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