Tag: Slovakia

Slovakia is a relatively young and smaller state in Eastern Europe that emerged from the peaceful partition of Czechoslovakia in 1992/1993. The country, which was under Hungarian, Russian, Austrian and German repression for a long time, has been a member of the European Union since May 1, 2004. Slovakia lies between the Danube and the […]

Attractions Kremnica, Banská Bystrica and Spis Mining and coinage played an important role in Kremnica. A stroll through the town takes in the Municipal Castle (14th-19th centuries) with Gothic and Renaissance buildings, the Plague Column of the Trinity (1767-72) and the small miners’ houses (18th-19th centuries). The Numismatics Museum contains a collection documenting the coins […]

From a geographical point of view, Slovakia lies exactly in the middle of Europe. The small parliamentary republic came into being with the end of Czechoslovakia in 1993 and its split into the Czech and Slovak Republics. Slovakia has been part of the European Union since 2004 and a member of the European Monetary Union […]