Orava
Orava river region in northern Slovakia: the castle on the rock at Oravský Podzámok, the open-air museum in Zuberec, the Roháče lakes and Slanica Island.
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A destination is a region you visit as a single trip: it can bring together several cities or be a large city with everything it offers. Each destination has the tours, the itineraries, the best time to go month by month and how to get there.
The guide currently has 18 destinations, with 35 cities in 8 regions.
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A destination is more than a city: it's everything you can experience there.
Orava river region in northern Slovakia: the castle on the rock at Oravský Podzámok, the open-air museum in Zuberec, the Roháče lakes and Slanica Island.
The silver town at the center of an ancient volcano: two castles facing each other, miners’ houses on the slopes, a Baroque calvary at the top of the hill and lakes built for the mines.
The wine route just north of Bratislava: Pezinok and its wine museum, pottery and the memory of Ľudovít Štúr in Modra, and Červený Kameň Castle in the hills.
The highest mountains of the Carpathians: glacial lakes, waterfalls, the Lomnický štít cable car, summer hiking and winter skiing, with Poprad as the gateway.
The Little Rome of churches and medieval walls and, 30 km away, Piešťany, the thermal spa on the Váh River with its covered bridge and the Spa Island.
Vale of the Váh River between the Low Tatras and the Western Tatras: the Demänová caves, Chopok, the village of Vlkolínec and open-air museums.
Castle above the Váh River, a Baroque square at the foot of the rock and the Roman inscription of 179, with the spa town Trenčianske Teplice a few kilometers away.
The second city of Slovakia: St. Elizabeth Cathedral, the easternmost of the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe, Hlavná Street with the Fountain that Sings, and a historic center protected from end to end.
Thermal town in the upper Nitra valley with Slovakia’s most-visited romantic castle, the country’s oldest zoo, and a historic park surrounding them.
Žilina, the capital of the northwest, and the Malá Fatra mountains: the Vrátna valley, the Jánošíkove diery gorges, Rozsutec and Strečno Castle above the Váh.
Limestone mountains on the border with Poland, cut by the Dunajec River: wooden raft descent, the gorge trail and the Červený Kláštor monastery.
The capital of Slovakia on the Danube: the castle on the hill, the coronation cathedral, the historic center on foot and the ruins of Devín on the border with Austria.
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