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Bodruzal wooden church

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In the vicinity of Svidnik is the wooden church of Saint Nicholas in Bodruzal, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed church. Built in 1658, it is also Greek-Catholic, like the church of Dobroslava and so many others in the area. There is a complete iconostasis in the church, with four rows of paintings and a delicately decorated [...]
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Dobroslava wooden church

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North of Svidnik is the Greek-Catholic wooden church in Dobroslava, built in 1705, and dedicated to Saint Parasceve. Parasceve was a woman who inherited a great deal of money from her parents, which instead of using herself, she distributed amongst the poor. She never married, and was executed in prison after having been accused of [...]
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19. Svidnik

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The area around Svidnik has a range of beautiful wooden churches, too, some of which have great frescoes inside. Half-an-hour further east from Bardejov, equally close to the Polish border, is Svidnik, another one of those towns where soviet-style architecture has left a mark. It is really a small town, yet, wide avenues separate the [...]
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Hervartov wooden church

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The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, in Hervartov, not far from Bardejov, is a wooden gothic-style church, built at the end of the 15th Century. It is the oldest, and best preserved wooden church in Slovakia, the roof still covered with shingles. The inside is richly decorated, most notably with a painting of The [...]
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18. the wooden churches around Bardejov

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Although not a 100% successful, we manage to visit the most important wooden church in the Bardejov area, as well as the open-air museum and the Zborov Castle. Armed with the map of the tourist office, and contact telephone numbers for all the wooden churches in the area, we set off from Bardejov. First to [...]
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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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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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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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16. Cesky Raj

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Cesky Raj is one of the nicest Czech nature reserves, great for walks in the forest interspersed with huge sandstone outcrops. We are on our way to Cesky Raj, the most famous nature reserve in the Czech Republic. Cesky Raj means Bohemian Paradise; we have encountered more instances where ‘Cesky’ – Chech – is translated [...]
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