Tag: Slovakia
Central Europe Road Trip 6/6: Bratislava & Tihany – Blue Church, Michael's Gate, Lake Balaton FinaleThe final part of our 12-day, three-country Central Europe road trip. In the Slovak capital Bratislava we saw the Presidential Palace, the castle, Michael's Gate, the man in the top hat and the dreamy Blue Church, then drove back to Hungary for Lake Balaton from the Tihany Peninsula.
Central Europe Road Trip 5/6: High Tatras, Spiš Castle & Levoča – Cable Car up Lomnický ŠtítPart 5 of our Central Europe road trip, the Slovak mountain chapter: an evening walk at Štrbské Pleso, the cable car from Tatranská Lomnica via Skalnaté Pleso up Lomnický Štít (2,634 m), then Spiš Castle, one of Central Europe's largest castle ruins, and Levoča's Renaissance town hall.
Central Europe Road Trip 4/6: Košice, Slovakia – St. Elisabeth Cathedral, Singing FountainPart 4 of our Central Europe road trip takes us to Košice, Slovakia's second-largest city: the country's largest Gothic cathedral, the Singing Fountain, a black dragon sculpture and plague column on the main street, and Jakab's Palace, which looks like a fairy-tale castle.