Local Guides To Slovakia

Bratislava, the city with about half a million inhabitants, certainly belongs to Europe's most relaxed capitals. The city has its old-town charm, one of the best hotels in the world, great restaurants...

The longest Slovak river, Váh, which represents the central axis of this region, has endowed central Považie with its typical character. The mountain ranges of the White Carpathians (Biele Kar...

The Danube region with its special landscape is situated in the south of Slovakia. The southwestern and southern limits of the region follow the Slovak-Hungarian borders running along the stream of th...

  The region of Gemer and Malohont, surrounded by a wonderful nature is one of the most beautiful places in Slovakia, yet still rather underrated. Its territory lies in the south of central...

The river Hron, which gave the name to the territory of region, springs in the southern hillside of the majestic mountain Kráľova hoľa. It flows westward from this legendary mountain in the e...

The region of Košice and its surroundings is situated in the east of Slovakia. Its core is the L-shaped basin Košická kotlina. This fertile and densely populated basin is surround...

The region of Liptov lies in the north of Slovakia and its northestern part borders on Poland. Its natural scenery is one of the most beautiful in the country. The Veľká Fatra Mountains, the r...

The region of Lower Považie (Dolné Považie) has assumed the name of the river Váh flowing through the territory from north to south. Dolné Považie is among the earliest settled...

The region adopted the name of the Zemplín Castle built long before the Tartar invasion on the site of the former Old Slave fortified settlement on the bank of the river Bodrog north of the vil...

Region of Nitra is one of the regions of Slovakia interesting not only for its natural beauty, but also and above all for its cultural as well as historical heritage. It has attracted our ancestors wh...

The region of Orava lies in the northwestern part of Slovakia, on the border with Poland. The border crossing in environs of the village of Oravská Polhora is also the northernmost point of Slo...

The axis of the central part of Pohronie is, as its name suggests (Pohronie in English means 'the land along the Hron'), the river Hron. The landscape surrounding it experienced volcanic eruptions of ...

The region bears the name of the river Ipeľ, great part of which flows along the frontier between Slovakia and Hungary. The depressed part of Poiplie are surrounded by volcanic mountain ranges. Alth...

Spiš is the historical territory in the northern part of Slovakia. Spiš boasts of all basic natural attributes proper to the typical Carpathian landscape. It is arranged in varied mosaic...

The surroundings of Bratislava are situated in the southwest of Slovakia. Its southern part stretches along the river Danube, follows the Slovak-Hungarian border, while its western extreme traces the ...

The region of the Tatras and northern Spiš, lying in the north of Slovakia, is the most attractive tourist area of Slovakia. It consists of two subregions, Tatras and northern Spiš. The ...

The region of Turiec spreads in the north-western part of Slovakia in the Turčianska kotlina (basin) surrounded by the mountain ranges of Malá and Veľká Fatra, Kremnické vrchy a...

As the name suggests, the region of Upper Nitra lies next to the upper reach of the river Nitra, which connects the northern and southern parts of the region. The main communications run parallel to i...

Upper Zemplín is the most eastern region of Slovakia. The region borders on Poland in the north and with Ukraine in the east. The typical Carpathian landscape with original virgin forest and ra...

Incredibly beautiful and in many places nature is still untouched. The mountains are full of native species of fauna and flora with colorful, gorgeous blooming meadows below them. There are plains and...

The name Záhorie (Transmountain) appeared for the first time in the 17th century and it is based in the Latin name Processus Transmontanus, which referred to the area situated beyond the Small ...

Šariš is situated in the northern part of eastern Slovakia. In the west and northwest it borders on the region of Spiš, in the west it stretches as far as the northern part of the...

The unique natural setting and abundant historic and cultural monuments make the region very attractive. Mountains rich in forests cover most of its surface. The most valuable natural assets are prote...