slovakia castles

What you see in that photo is the Krasna Horka Castle in Slovakia. It's also about to be the seed for Slovakia's greatest anti-smoking campaign. The castle had been standing for seven centuries, surviving the destruction of the...


The visit to the castle


The Budatín castle was built


Spissky Castle – Oravsky


Cachtice castle, Slovakia


Bojnice Castle


Bojnice Castle - Slovakia

Children playing with matches has led to a fire gutting one of Slovakia's most important medieval castles.
Slovakia's Krasna Horka castle destroyed in fire

First up, Slovakia, where I recently lived for five years. One of its historic, hilltop castles burns to the ground – apparently caused by two kids, 11 and 12, messing with cigarettes on a windy day. From an adjacent village, they...
slovakia castles