Oct 6, 2008

Places to see around Trencin

Cicmany (open air museum)
http://www.muzeum.sk/defaulte.php?obj=muzeum&ix=ci_pvm_en

The exhibitions are presented in a single-storey wooden house called the Radena house. The richness and variety of the exhibits documents the everyday and holiday life of the village's inhabitants and their family customs. Visitors will also be enchanted by the exhibition of fine clothing, whose techniques, ornamental motifs and tasteful colour-schemes can be traced back to the Renaissance.


Rajecka Tepla for Slovak betlehem (hand crafted)
http://www.muzeum.sk/defaulte.php?obj=pamiatka&ix=sbrj

Slovak Bethlehem was opened in November 1995. This is the masterpiece of Jozef Pekara, a woodcarver from Rajecke Teplice. Mr. Jozef Pekara has been working on it since 1980. In his work of art he depicts not only the Nativity but also the history of the Slovak nation. The tableau of the Nativity is in the middle of the creche that is located in the village of Rajecka Lesna. All the Slovak regions can be found there represented by their most famous places and buildings, such as: the castles of Devin, Bratislava, Trencin, and Orava and the cathedrals in Nitra, Trnava, Spisska Kapitula, and Kosice. One of the High Tatras mountains, Krivan, rises in the background as a symbol of Slovakia.
Once it is finished in 1998 it will be 8,5 m long, 2,5 m wide and 3 m high.
On the first floovr of the House of the Nativity there is a gallery that attracts visitors by the works of art of woodcarvers like Briestensky, Vesely, Baca from Rajecka valley.


Beckov for its ruin (currently in reconstruction)
http://www.slovakheritage.org/Castles/beckov.htm

Ruins of the castle which was built in the 13th century a destroyed in 1729. It a national cultural monument



Trencianske Teplice - for its spas and healing waters
http://www.slktn.sk/index_en.php?pg=12_hamman

The well-known antirheumatic spa belongs to the oldest and the most sought for spas in Slovakia.

The partially renovated spa with more than 1 000 beds offers a complete spa treatment all year round on a high medical level for over 20 000 guests from Slovakia and abroad. Once you to to Teplice you have to see a wonderful park in the middle of the city and taste their traditional spa waffles (oplatky) .


Bojnice - for it's zoo and castle
http://www.bojnicecastle.sk/historia-en.html

Bojnice Castle belongs to the oldest and most important memorials in Slovakia. The first written record of the existence of the castle comes from 1113.