Every week The Slovak Spectator brings you a selection of three short stories from across Slovakia in which pessimism and negativity are absent.
'Speaking' lights in Bratislava
The first light park has opened in Bratislava. (source: Decont)
Illuminated by more than 400,000 lights, the first light park in Slovakia opened on Thursday, November 16, at the Bratislava racetrack in the Petržalka borough.
The exhibition comprises more than 45 light installations, a light tunnel, interactive light photo frames, an eight-metre Christmas tree and a light imitation of Bratislava Castle made of 13,680 lights.
The Lights Speak exhibition is the work of the Decoled company and is open to the public until the end of January 2024, every day from 16:00 to 21:00.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the venue.
He loves cross-dressing and his wife
The middle-aged married couple, Vlastimil Černý and Michaela Černá, are literally an unmissable couple and always in perfectly coordinated outfits. Vlastimil, who usually wears dresses, skirts, heels and painted nails, particularly stands out in this couple.
Michaela says that she doesn't mind her husband's passion for women's clothing. She has already gotten used to it and he is said to completely identify with it, writes the tabloid Plus Jeden Deň. The couple even match up on many occasions to look their best. They wore the same dress in their wedding photos, too.
Vlastimil even goes to work dressed in women's clothes. He works in IT and management. In his opinion, it is very important that the company he works for not force people to hide their identity.
Priest becomes headmaster to save school
A small primary school in Čavoj, Prievidza district, is temporarily headed by Róbert Stenchlák, a priest from a neighbouring village.
Nobody was interested in the post of school headmaster. The school was in danger of not opening at all this year, writes The Slovak Spectator’s sister publication My Horná Nitra. Therefore, Čavoj mayor Anna Gulášová asked the priest for help.
"You never know what God will throw your way," the priest said.
She approached him because she knew that he held a doctorate in pedagogy and that he had taught at a special needs school.
He will perform the job until February. By then, the town hopes to find a new headmaster.
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Košice legend will sing again
The reconstruction of the extraordinary singing fountain in Košice has ended. It was shut down throughout the year. A test operation was carried out at the end of the renovation.
Residents and visitors who passed through the centre last week could witness it.
"We will introduce the renovated singing fountain to the people of Košice in May next year," said the city, adding that all the fountains will now be winterised.
The total costs to reconstruct the fountain are €1.7 million, €1 million of which was provided by the U.S. Steel Košice Foundation.
The Košice singing fountain, the first ever singing fountain in former Czechoslovakia, has become an extremely popular tourist attraction since its launch in 1986. It was last renovated in 1997.
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