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Spišská Kapitula

The ecclesiastic town
Spišská Kapitula is sometimes
also referred to as the “Slo-
vak Vatican”. Life in Spišská
Kapitula (The Chapter of Spiš)
was organised by bishops,
provosts, and canonists.
The most important building
of Spišská Kapitula is the Late-
Romanesque St Martin’s Ca-
thedral. It acquired its massive
form of a three-nave building
with two towers in the years