Trencin Castle

The Southwestern town of Trencin provided us with the massive Roman Trencin Castle that sat on top of a huge rock. The Christmas hustle and Bustle has really started to take hold here as well. We also had a look at the Piarist Church and the main town ...

... of the guide explaining the exhibits and not much else to look at while he was talking because the Communists "restored" the castle interiors by pouring in lots of concrete and adding modern fixtures like tile flooring. My guide was entertaining, and he ...

... yesterday's tour wasn't the language, as I had assumed, but the fact that the inside of Banská Štiavnica's Old Castle just wasn't that interesting. There was a lot of the guide explaining tiny items in display cases, using excessive detail, which ...

... Cup in Trencin more than we have in Calgary and Vancouver. The town of about 60,000 sits below the third largest castle in Slovakia perched high on a rock above. We are starting to understand why people talk about churches and castles and Europe all in ...

... , September 7 Jane's friend Kamila (AKA Kaja) and her Aussie fiancé Matt are getting married this Saturday in Slovakia's largest castle, n a town called Bojnice. To save tongue-twisting time, it is pronounced Boy-neet-say, not Bodge-nise, etc. The ...

... ' permission to wed and is generally an emotional time, especially if you understand what is going on. Odobierka To the castle! As a group, the fifty-strong wedding party walk back through the town and up into the enormous fourteenth-century ...

... at the top end of the market - the Trancin Autocamp. But who cares about that as we have a lovely cabin on the banks of Slovakia's largest river, the Vah and have made lots of friends at the campsite already. This is a nice change, as we made no Czech ...

... family and there were also an elderly german couple staying with him for a couple nights. so we just sat around and talked some of slovakia and drank beer. next day looked around the city then went to trenčin, about an hour south. there i met my ...

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... a true pleasure - and was definitely worth the stop. The final part of our trip had us at one of Slovakia's most popular tourist sights: the castle of Bojnice - a castle for Disney to model. Petite and compact, sitting on a rock outcrop surrounded by a ...