These articles were published in the Spectacular Slovakia travel guide, published annually by The Slovak Spectator since 1996. The latest editions can be obtained from our online shop.
Contents - Spectacular Slovakia 2004
BASICS
> Spectacular Slovakia 2004
> Contents
> Editors´s note
> Welcome to Slovakia
> Notes on style
> The Basics
> Language guide
> Suggested trips
TRAVEL NOTES
> From inoramus to barroom teacher
> To the mountains
> Of alcohol and God
> Vegetarian blues
> Slovaks: Getting the most out of life
> View from the train
> On villages and wood
> Rafting with Poles
> A slivovica-soaked memory
> Postscript
SLOVAK HISTORY
> Walking through old times
> How WWII Changed Slovakia's Minorities
> Who are the Rusyns?
> Famous Slovaks
BRATISLAVA
> Introduction
> History
> Coming and going
> Royal City Bratislava
> Places to eat
> Entertainment and Places after dark
> Other useful places
> Places to stay
> Around Bratislava
> Did you know?
ŽILINA AND AROUND
> Žilina
> Around Žilina
> The Malá Fatra mountains
> Did you know?
NITRA AND AROUND
> Nitra
> Around Nitra
> Komárno
> Did you know?
CENTRAL SLOVAKIA
> Banská Bystrica
> Banská Štiavnica
> The Low Tatras
> Did you know?
THE HIGH TATRAS AND AROUND
> Tatra National Park
> Spišská Nová Ves,Spiš Castle
> Slovak Paradise
> Levoča
> Rafting in the Dunajec Gorge
> How to read Slovak trail marks
> Did you know?
ŠARIŠ REGION
> Prešov
> Bardejov
> Wooden Churches
> War monuments and Warhol
> Did you know?
KOŠICE AND AROUND
> Košice
> Around Košice
> Did you know?
WINES
> Slovak Grape Varieties
> Rebirth of the Bacchanalian art
> Slovak wine recommendations
> How to read a Slovak Wine Label
> Low mountains...
> Tokaj
> How Tokaj is made
> A tale of two Tokaj wineries
> Slovakia's fruity firewaters
BEER
> A Thousand Years of Beer
> The great Slovak beer taste-off 2004
> How to read a Slovak beer label
SPAS
> And Kicking Back: A brief look at Slovak Spas
> Two More Mountain Spas
> Mom's famous spa story
> Thermal bathing at high altitudes
> Slovakia's Spa Island
> Royal spa of the east
> A spa for hedonists
> Smrdáky: Slovakia's
> Dudince: a dip in communist-era luxury
ARCHITECTURE
> Royal Churches
> Folk architecture
> Wooden Churches
> Functionalism
> Communist architecture
CRAFTS
FOOD
> Guide to Eating Out
> Slovak Food
CAVES
> Underground sightseeing
> Did you know?
CASTLES
> Crazy countesses, etc.
> Terminology
> Did you know?
SKIING
> On the way up
> Skiing in Slovakia
> Did you know?
These articles and related information were published in Spectacular Slovakia 2004.
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