Slovakia has 180 registered castles and ruins, more per capita than almost any European country, and Krásna Hôrka may be the most perfectly preserved of them all, a hilltop fortress near Roʒava that was never conquered, never destroyed, and survived intact from the 14th century until a devastating fire in 2012. The castle sits on […]
Levoča is one of Slovakia’s most precious heritage towns, a remarkably preserved medieval trading city in the Spiš region whose Church of St. James houses the tallest wooden altar in the world (18.62 metres), a masterpiece of late Gothic carving by the legendary Master Paul of Levoča that is, astonishingly, 500 years old and still […]