One of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe, a ruined fortress spread over a limestone hill in eastern Slovakia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walk the walls and climb the tower for views over the countryside.
It's open from spring to autumn. Below it, the walled ecclesiastical town of Spišská Kapitula and the village of Žehra, with its little church, are also part of the World Heritage Site. Levoča, nearby, has the world's tallest Gothic wooden altar.
A national park of deep limestone gorges where the trails climb up waterfalls using ladders, chains and metal steps fixed into the rock.
The smallest alpine range in the world, with sharp granite peaks, glacial lakes and waterfalls, shared with Poland.
A historic silver-mining town of steep streets and colourful houses in a volcanic caldera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A romantic castle with towers and spires that looks straight out of a fairytale, rebuilt in the style of French Loire chateaux in the early 1900s by …
A square castle with four corner towers on a hill above the Danube, the landmark of Slovakia's capital, with a history museum and baroque gardens.
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