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Gotická cesta

Through the Gothic route you get to know a very rich treasure of cultural and historical sights of Spiš and Gemer. It is the first tourist route of that kind not only on this region, but in the whole Slovakia.
The tourist route is a circle 276 km long. You will travel on the first, second and third class roads and local streets. It is possible to make smaller part of the circles from any place on it. It documents the culture of 24 villages and 9 towns.

The gothic route goes through very interesting and protected nature areas. First of all there are two large protected areas of the national parks: the Slovak paradise and Muránska plateau. In this area there is Dobšiná Ice Cave.
In Gemer the route goes through the protected landscape, biosphere reserve Slovenský kras and the caves and abysses, which importance and uniqueness were rewarded by the entering the List of World Nature Heritage UNESCO (Ochtinská Aragonite Cave, Gombasek Cave, Domica).

From the point of view of the most important protected historical areas the route goes through:

two town´s reserves: Levoča, Spišská Kapitula
the areas with the sights entered into the List of World Cultural Heritage UNESCO the Spiš Castle, Spišská Kapitula, Žehra
10 sights´ areas: Spišská Nová Ves, Spišské Podhradie, Spišské Vlachy, Gelnica, Markušovce, Smolník, Rožňava, Lúčka, Štítnik, Jelšava.
in Levoča, the Spiš Castle, the Church at Žehra, the Castle Krásna Hôrka, a mansion and a historical parkland in Betliar, churches in Koceľovce, Ochtiná, Štítnik, Plešivec, Šivetice, Rákoš, Chyžné and the original and newer building of the First Slovak Grammar School in Revúca.

The Wine Road of Tokaj

The unique Tokaj wine - presentation of the Slovak part of the Tokaj viticultural regions, vine growing and processing of grapes and technological aspects of the Tokaj wine production has led to the establishment of The Wine Road of Tokaj.

The Tokaj wine is rightly referred to as the King of wines and the wine of Kings because in the past it was served in all royal tables in Europe.
Now The Wine Road of Tokaj with the centres in Malá Tŕňa and Veľká Tŕňa offers ten kinds of wines (among them the most famous is the two to six “barrelled” one called Tokajský výber), which are also highly appreciated abroad.

The special detail of the Wine Road are the cellars of Tokaj which date to the period of Turkish wars and to certain extent they were built as shelters against invaders. Some of them are carved 8 to 16 m deep into volcanic rocks.

The Wine Road of Malé Karpaty

The foothill area of the mountain range Malé Karpaty in the south-west of Slovakia is predetermined for vine growing. This tradition is used and promoted by what is called the Malokarpatská vínna cesta, (The Wine Road of Malé Karpaty).

The idea to establish and compose this wine road stems in the need to promote the viticultural region of Malé Karpaty and to present it to both the Slovak and foreign visitors.

Vine growing and wine producing tradition, long history lavishly represented by old monuments, surviving folklore and typical character of the local houses, cuisine, interesting fauna and flora which invites to relax, these are all attractive articles for tourists seeking something new and entertaining.

The Wine Road of Malé Karpaty leads through the former royal boroughs Bratislava, Svätý Jur, Pezinok, and Modra, contiguous villages and ends in Trnava.

Apart from cultural and historic monuments visitors will be certainly intrigued by tradition of varied folklore in individual communes of this region where they can pass nice time in numerous wine cellars tasting the excellent dish like the baked goose with a glass of fine local wine and listening to a popular band.

Thermal spas and aqua parks

The territory of Slovakia disposes of many hot springs and hot wells, which have relaxing and health effects. You can try it in different thermal parks and spas. The area of Tatry mountain is specific for interior and exterior thermal pools, atrium, whirlpools under the sky and it offers the various services such as: sauna, inhalations, hydro massages, whirlpools, roller coasters, and so on. The specialty is the European curiosity – heated chair of 24-carats gold.

Geological – mineralogical localities - the exhibitions of old adits and quarries with professional explanation and possibility to receive the minerals, rocks or reliquiaes ( bought or collected in the locations)

The middle ages castle kitchen

We brink closer the manners of handling foodstuffs, meals, making dishes and dine manners in the middle Ages. You can see many interesting and unique objects of the middle ages kitchen and you will learn what kind of spices and raw materials were used as basic cooking specialties.

Weekends

There exhibitions of sword play, theatric performances, concerts and night visit of a castle is prepared for visitors during the summer season.

The road by historical train

A road by historical train is characterized by different tunnels and bridges. Uniqueness of beautiful nature and scenic view to „Hnilecka dolina“and „Slovenky raj“attracts one’s interest.

The visit of handicraft‘s studio - demonstration of making samples of Slovak souvenirs with possibility to try making own hand made souvenirs of the clay, wood, metal, glass, textile, and traditional Slovak sweets. There is also possibility to buy or order a professional hand made products.

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