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A difficult hike to the mountain is rewarded with a beautiful view of the surrounding nature.
Three Poles died in the High Tatras in the second week of January.
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Penati Golf Resort is ranked among the Top 100 golf courses of continental Europe.
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Štrbské Pleso had to close because of the traffic.
The outlaw Juraj Jánošík, who has been turned into a folk hero, was sent to the gallows in the early 18th century.
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Three statues celebrating Slovak folk tales have been erected in the town.
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Kopčany's Church of St Margaret of Antioch includes the foundations of 12 Great Moravian churches.
The first time a park in Slovakia gets named after a Swede.
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Apart from Bratislava, Holíč was the only imperial seat in Slovakia.
Stressful for wild and domestic animals.
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New attraction built out of 150,000 lights. The highest record created by seven-metre-tall elephant.
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As a free royal town, Skalica had formidable fortifications, parts of which remain.
The man portrayed above the side door to St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice is not Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.
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In the town’s Museum of Ľudovít Štúr, you can find some unconventional relics, such as a tuft of Štúr’s hair.
Winter sports lovers hit the slopes for the first time last weekend.
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It is a golden corner of the Small Carpathians, especially in autumn.
Holy Mass is held in the 1910 chapel once a year.
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Krivánska Malá Fatra is one of the most popular hiking areas in Slovakia.
If you are not into cross-country skiing, make beeswax candles or listen to poetry.
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Parts of the castle near Žilina under restoration.
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- 5. UPDATED: Booster dose opens way to vast benefits. These are Slovakia's measures against Omicron (Q & A)
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