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17. Bardejov

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The medieval town of Bardejov is a great place to use as a base for further wooden church exploration; it even has its own museum, with icons that come from those churches. We have discovered another real gem in Slovakia. Having moved ever further east, and north, we have arrived in Bardejov, not far from [...]
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16. the Spis region

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Like so often this trip, we face several attractions closed, but the biggest and perhaps the smallest church of the Spis Region are both opened, specially for us. Levoca, our base for the last few days, is also the capital of what is called the Spis area, a historical region that for a long time [...]
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15. the High Tatras

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Our mounteneering experience on the Lomnicky Stit in the High Tatras ends up in the clouds. Using Levoca as a base, we spend the day scaling the second highest peak in the High Tatras, Slovakia’s most important mountain range. Lomnicky Stit is 2634 m high, and we are coming from 880 m. Usually one would [...]
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14. Levoca

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On our way east we base ourselves for a few days in Levoca, a nice, small medieval town. We have been driving east for a while, today. We have followed the Hron valley, a fairly scenic road through low mountains, with occasional views of a pretty river – but no places to stop, almost, which [...]
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13. Vlkolinec

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Picture-perfect village Vlkolinec is a little too perfect, for my liking. There is another village that needs to be visited. Vlkolinec is located on the slopes of the Siderovo mountain, with a little over 1000 m one of the highest peaks in the Liptov region south of Orava. The village, UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists [...]
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the church in Lestiny

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The village of Lestiny is one of several articled churches in the Orava region. An articled church is a Protestant church that was gradually allowed during the 17th Century in Slovakia, which was under  strictly Roman Catholic Habsburg rule.  There were severe restrictions for the churches. They had to be outside the village limits, had [...]
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the Zuberec skansen

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A skansen is an open-air museum, in most cases established to protect architectural heritage. From villages in the wide surroundings typical houses and other buildings, which otherwise would not have survived, have been dismantled and subsequently built up in the museum. In Zuberec there are about twenty houses from the Orava region, of various origin [...]
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Podbiel

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Podbiel is a small town in the Orava region of Slovakia, near the Polish border. The town distinguishes itself with its large collection of wooden houses, which – unlike in many other villages – are quite well integrated into the rest of town. Clearly, people are living in these houses, and they are not just [...]
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12. the Orava region

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Although our base is not the most attractive of towns, the Orava region offers a range of heritage architecture, from castles and wooden churches and houses to the industrial complexes; you either hate them, or you love them, but photogenic they are. This is not the smoothest of our trips, I have said that before. [...]
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11. Cicmany

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Driving north through the Turiac Valley we come across several towns, where museum visiets are a challenge; contrary to the open-air museum of Cicmany, a unique village with decorated wooden houses. Today was another one of those days for driving from one place to another, with again a couple of rarities thrown in for good [...]
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