A comfort zone, a place to stay: Gýmeš a Hrušov

Visit the places where the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, used to walk.

Hrušov CastleHrušov Castle (Source: VaGa)

It was such a happy and exciting day! On July 29, 1923, a man with white hair and a white moustache, embraced by the mystic mist of invisible power, got out of the car. A mixture of Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill.

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He got out in front of the Classicistic manor house in Topoľčianky. Here, in the huge English park, in the shadow of trees, he spent each summer until 1933.

Here he read books and recorded his ideas. Here he became a greater philosopher. Here he rode his horse, drank from the small forest wells, and silently observed wild animals.

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Today a big statue serves as a monument to his presence.

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