About a 40-min drive northeast is the wooden articled Hronsek Church made an UNESCO World Heritage Site together with seven other wooden churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area. An articled church means that to build a Lutheran church during the rule of the pro-Catholic Austro-Hungarian times, a specific list of guidelines based … Continue reading Hronsek Church July 2019
This morning I headed east to the medieval town of Banska Stiavnica, often called Silver Town, about 2 hours drive from Bratislava. Bankska Stiavnica is located in the middle of a caldera created by the collapse of a volcano in central Slovakia. Its history has been closely linked to the mining of silver ore since … Continue reading Banska Stiavnica July 2019
From Bosnia in the Balkans, I continued my summer adventures to Slovakia in central Europe, formerly part of Czechoslovakia. During the 5th and 6th century, Slavs settled in the area and were later conquered by the Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. After the dissolution of Great Moravia, the Kingdom of Hungary was formed … Continue reading Bratislava July 2019
