Levoca, Slovakia Travel Blogs

Levoca
Aug 5, 2008

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Levoca
Dec 6, 2000 (4 photos)

The magnificent walled town of Levoca was well worth the extra effort made to get there. We arrived at night with the next days frost already setting in. We arrived at the hotel for some soup before hitting bed. The next day we went into Nam Majstra Pavla, ...

Levoca
May 20, 2007

... off dinner!!! The main drawcard for this area though is Spisske Podhradie and nearby Spisske Kapitula.  The former is Slovakia's largest castle which sits proudly atop a hill in the middle of rolling countryside.  There were heaps of gophers ...

These sandals were made for walking
Aug 5, 2004

... I save... 80 cents! I think I failed to really mention the countryside around here, but it's beautiful. This part of Slovakia is very hilly (I can't in all truth say mountainous), with little villages nestled in the valleys or perched on the hillsides. ...

Eastern Europe adventure starts here
Aug 18, 2005

... (another capital city in a short space would be too much) and into the hills north east of Bratislava towards central Slovakia. I hope for quiet roads, cheap food and friendly people. Lack of English spoken outside big cities may be a problem but its all ...

Country of mountains
Jun 7, 2008 (14 photos)

... stopped and got a few pictures of the snowcapped peaks, and headed over yet another unmanned boarder crossing. It turns out Slovakia is a very beautiful country. It is very mountainous, which makes the surroundings amazing to look at. We were going to ...

Sun, Snow and Spis
Feb 10, 2008 (21 photos)

... few days over the winter break, Ania and I finally decided to return to the country we'd both discovered just a month earlier, Slovakia. After initially deciding on Vienna, which proved to be just out of our grasp financially, we decided then to head to ...

Moving West
Aug 4, 2004

... ! It's very clean and there's a television, with 3 chanels, so I'll be able to see what prime-time tv is like in Slovakia. Levoca is a pretty little town dating back to the Middle Ages (another one?!) with old city walls and plenty of old buildings. ...

White Pants Phenomenon
Aug 14, 2004 (3 photos)

... could have gone missing....we were very hungry. Also while sitting around and enjoying the atmosphere we also noticed a phenomenon sweeping Slovakia - women wearing white pants with a white g-string - for all the world to see. Maybe we can export this ...

Over the mountains into Slovakia
Sep 28, 2006 (3 photos)

... and took us from Zakopane, Poland, through spectacular mountain scenery over what was not really a long distance into Slovakia. We found another bus to take us to Levoca - a gem of a little town where we have the swankiest FOUR=STAR hotel at a steal of a ...

Turd tossed out
Jun 15, 2009 (21 photos)

Levoča (and the pension Oáza in town—I cannot recommend it enough) were recommended by Lonely Planet Slovakia, and they did not lead us astray. Thankfully, I was able to shove the Romania LP to the bottom of my bag when we left there a few days ...

Spis Off
Sep 4, 2005 (1 photos)

... this far-flung colony as a place to export their favourite lamb-based tasty snack, so called it Souvlakia, and the present name has thus developed. 3) Slovakia beat Germany 2-0 at football last night. HA! HA! (* One of these may not be true)

Across Slovakia - Bratislava to Levoca
Jun 29, 2005 (5 photos)

... of English, German, Italian, Slovak and (a lot of( Pictionary, found out about the wildlife -bears, wolves, deer etc- in Slovakia. He talked about his experience climbing the High Tatras when he encountered a bear at 10m. He explained that if I ever saw ...

Doddering about Slovensky Raj
Jun 17, 2009 (11 photos)

After our revels the night before, I was not too excited about hiking in Slovensky Raj National Park.  Nonetheless, we set off at a good enough time and got one bus to Spisske Nova Ves and then another to Cingov.  From Cingov we began hiking.& ...

Refreshing Slovakia
Jun 15, 2009 (2 photos)

... ;and then a bus from Poprad to Levoca.  After the transport difficulty in Romania, we loved the efficiency of Slovakia. In Levoca we stayed at a small, family owned pension in the old town.  The Dubeckys put us in an upstairs apartment with& ...

Bardejov, Spisske castle ruin, Levoca
Sep 30, 2005 (26 photos)

Bardejov, Spisske castle ruin, Levoca

Levoca / Slovensky Raj, Slovakia
Aug 6, 2006 (6 photos)

... town of Levoca which had a pretty, although wet and uneven, campsite at which we could stay. The following day, we drove into Levoca town for a quick look around and to try and find (a) some hiking boots and (b) a car battery place, as Big Green's " ...

visiting nice towns in Slovakia
Jul 24, 2005 (28 photos)

... also made a visit to Levoca and Presov. Present day Levoca is an urban cultural historical reservation. Levoca is situated in the north-western part of Eastern Slovakia, in the Spis region, and on the southern foot of Levocske mountains. It was founded in ...

Na navsteve u majstra Pavla
Aug 4, 2008 (14 photos)

Z Tatier sme dnes isli priamo do Levoce. Lakala nas tu hlavne prehliadka soch Majstra Pavle z Levoce a tak prve miesto ktore sme navstivili bol kostol v ktorom sa nachadza oltar, ktory vyrobil. Fotit sa tam nedalo, takze foto zaznam mame len z okolia ...

Carpenters -- it was going to be bishops but hey..
Apr 16, 2009

... an alter 18.63 meters tall traced out of wood but mostly air. I think we can safely say he passed his woodwork GCSE. Levoca itself is lovely little place ideally placed for explorations - this plus the fact that Ive chanced upon one of those pensions that ...

Slovensky Raj
Aug 1, 2008

50 pence a pint and two nights accommodation for 18 Euros, Chris is a very happy man!  We spent a couple of days walking in the Slovensky Raj National Park, which was a real treat.  They are part of the lower Tatra's and have really fun ...

Levoca
Jul 3, 2008

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Slovensky Raj
Sep 7, 2006 (3 photos)

Slovensky Raj (Slovak Paradise) is a huge national park just outside of Levoca. We were ready for some time outdoors and the parks hiking trails seemed just the ticket. We started the day with a visit to the Dobsinka Ice Caves. We didn't want to wait 2 ...

Spissky Hrad
Sep 6, 2006 (3 photos)

The guidebooks downplay Spissky Hrad, but the guidebooks are wrong. Levoca is in the midst of the Spiss region of Slovakia, and Hrad is Slovakian for castle, so in case the pictures didn't give it away, Spissky Hrad is a giant, ruined castle on a bluff. ...

Another Day, Another Country (Slovakia)
Sep 5, 2006 (2 photos)

... highay blocked by a man with a machine gun. He saw the sticker and waved us through, but it did make for a tense moment. Levoca is a small city with a still extant city wall. Our hotel was clean and we had a room on the top floor with slanted ceilings, ...