The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia posts a list of “the top 10 castles and ruins in Slovakia” (with maps and pictures). Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples ...

From Edinburgh to Prague and Romania to England, one of Europe's defining features is its castles. While many other European countries boast dozens of fairytale-like hidden castles, Slovakia is ...

Autumn in Zvolen reveals a town full of quiet surprises. One moment you’re climbing a via ferrata beneath one of central Europe’s largest medieval castles; the next, you’re unwinding over Balinese ...

We had barely reached Zvolen Castle when a wedding party spilled across the courtyard and pensioners gathered against the cold — an immediate hint that the city was livelier than many of its residents ...

PRIEVIDZA, SLOVAKIA—According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, a seventeenth-century coin, pottery, and a knife were uncovered in the area where the gates once stood at Sivý Kameň, a castle on the ...