SK · Curated travel guide
Spiš Castle, Gerlachovský štít, Bratislava Castle and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Slovakia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Large castle site in eastern Slovakia
The ruins of a castle in eastern Slovakia, one of the country's six biggest castle sites, above Spišské Podhradie town and Žehra village in the Spiš region.
Photo: Andrei Stroe, CC BY-SA 4.0
Highest mountain in Slovakia
Informally called Gerlach, the highest peak of the High Tatras, of Slovakia and of the Carpathian Mountains, usually given as 2654.4 m above sea level.
Photo: Kristo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Castle in Slovakia
Bratislava's main castle, in Slovakia's capital: a massive rectangular building with a tower at each corner, on a lone rocky hill of the Little Carpathians right above the Danube, in the middle of the city.
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
Medieval castle in Bojnice, Slovakia
Built in the 12th century in Bojnice, Slovakia: a Romanesque castle from the Middle Ages that keeps some of its original Gothic and Renaissance features.
Photo: Studiowacho, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain in the High Tatras
A mountain on the High Tatras crest, in the eastern Tatras, on the Poland–Slovakia border. It has three summits: the south-eastern, 2,473 m (8,114 ft), the north-western, 2,500 m (8,202 ft), and the middle one, 2,501 m (8,205 ft).
Photo: Andrzej Makarczuk,, CC BY-SA 2.5
Bridge in Bratislava, Slovakia
Commonly called the UFO Bridge, and in full Most Slovenského národného povstania, a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, which bore the name Nový most between 1993 and 2012. No bridge with one pylon and one cable-stayed plane is longer.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Miaow Miaow assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Slovakia
A mountain of the High Tatras in Slovakia, towering over the upper part of what was Liptov County; several polls of nature lovers have voted it the country's most beautiful peak.
Photo: Achernar, CC BY-SA 3.0
Castle ruins in Bratislava, Slovakia
A castle in Devín, a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia's capital.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church in Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava's cathedral church, seat of the Archdiocese of Bratislava, in Slovakia.
Photo: Helix84, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Slovakia
One of the highest and most visited peaks of Slovakia's High Tatras, linked by cable car to Tatranská Lomnica. Its summit, 2,634 metres (8,642 ft) above sea level, is second in the range only to Gerlachovský štít.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Slovak Republic, a landlocked Central European country, with Poland to its north, Ukraine to its east, Hungary to its south, Austria to its west and the Czech Republic to its northwest. Its mostly mountainous land covers about 49,000 km² (19,000 sq mi) and has over 5.4 million people.
Officially The Slovak Republic. Known locally as Slovensko.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Spiš Castle, Gerlachovský štít, Bratislava Castle and Bojnice Castle and others. Spiš Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Slovakia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Spiš Castle. That is not the full count for Slovakia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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