A historic silver-mining town of steep streets and colourful houses in a volcanic caldera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. See the Old and New Castles, the Holy Trinity Column, and the hilltop Calvary, a baroque complex of chapels. The Open-Air Mining Museum takes you down into a mine.
The surrounding hills have artificial lakes (tajchy), built to power the mines, now popular for swimming. It's about 2.5 hours from Bratislava.
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 …
The smallest alpine range in the world, with sharp granite peaks, glacial lakes and waterfalls, shared with Poland.
A national park of deep limestone gorges where the trails climb up waterfalls using ladders, chains and metal steps fixed into the rock.
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.
One of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe, a ruined fortress spread over a limestone hill in eastern Slovakia, a UNESCO World Heritage Si…
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