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Ždiar (Hungarian: Zár, German: Morgenröthe, Goral: Zor) is a village and municipality in the Poprad District in the Prešov Region in Spiš in northern Slovakia. History [ edit ]
This is a list of castles in Slovakia. This list includes palaces, citadels and manor houses. These Slovak words translate as follows: hrad, hrádok - castle; zámok - correctly: château, commonly translated as castle; pevnosť - fortress, citadel; kaštieľ - mansion or manor house
Slovak National Museum in Martin; Slovak Red Cross Museum; Slovak Technical Museum; Small Carpathian Museum; St. Urban Tower; See also. Slovakia portal;
The Tatras are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains and span the border between Slovakia and Poland. Though currently ice-free, they were covered by glaciers in the Pleistocene epoch. Several glacial landforms are visible, including moraines and glacial lakes. In Slovakia, the area is protected as the Tatra National Park. [24]
Slovakia's largest open-air museum, located in Martin. Múzeum liptovskej dediny - Museum of the Liptov Village, Pribylina; Located in Pribylina, in the Liptov area. Vlkolínec Museum Village; Features many traditional buildings and is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Múzeum kysuckej dediny - Museum of the Kysuce Village, Vychylovka
In 1961 the Slovak National Museum in Martin was merged with the Slovak Museum, creating the new Slovak National Museum based in Bratislava. The SNM is the highest institution focusing on scientific research and cultural education in the field of museological activity in Slovakia. The SNM manages 16 specialized museums in and outside Bratislava ...
The most outstanding is Spiš Castle, in eastern Slovakia, dating from 1209. [1]: 38 Among the oldest churches in Slovakia are: The Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch, Kopčany, one of the oldest churches in Slovakia, a pre-Romanesque building for which Greater Moravian origin is considered. The church was built probably in the 9th or 10th ...
The castle was partly reconstructed in the second half of the twentieth century, and extensive archaeological research was carried out on the site. The reconstructed sections house displays of the Spiš Museum, which is responsible for managing the castle, [5] and artefacts such as torture devices formerly used in the castle.