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| ‡ Bratislava City |
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| Bratislava is Slovakia's largest city and has been the capital since 1969. The Austrian border is almost within sight of the city and Hungary is just 16km away. Many beautiful monuments are there in the old town. Some of the areas of attractions are as follows. |
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| ‡ Spissky Hrad |
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Spissky hrad is the largest castle in Slovakia. The castle was founded in 1209, wrecked by the Tatars in the 13th century and reconstructed in the 15th century. Although the castle burnt down in 1780, the ruins and the site are spectacular. The highest enclosure contains a round Gothic tower, and a cistern. Instruments of torture are exhibited in the dungeon. |
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| ‡ Dunajec Gorge |
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Pieniny National Park combines with a similar park in Poland to protect the 9km Dunajec River gorge between the Slovak village of Cerveny Klástor and Szczawnica, Poland. The river there makes the international boundary between the two countries. |
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Trnava |
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Trnava is Slovakia's oldest town, the first to get a royal charter as a free borough (from Hungarian King Béla IV in 1238). Though badly marred by modern development, its handsome walled old town, a legacy of almost three centuries as Hungary's religious centre, was spruced up for the town's 750th birthday in 1988. |
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Slovak Karst |
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This region of limestone canyons and caves is at the eastern end of the Slovak Red Mountains, a major range that reaches to the border with Hungary. The spectacular landscape includes Domica Cave, said to be one of the biggest in the world. It's a beautiful cave, full of colour and with some stalactites as thick as tree trunks. |
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Old Town |
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Historic neighborhood filled with charming narrow lanes, burgher's houses and nobles' palaces in addition to many of the city's important buildings such as the former Palace of the Hungarian Estates, the late-Gothic building of the Academia Istropolitana. |
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