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Slovak UNESCO

Cultural Monuments

Three localities from Slovakia were of the travertine territory of the National Nature Reserve Dreveník
inscribed to the UNESCO List of cultural forms a unique whole. In June 2009, the historic town of Levoča
monuments in 1993: The Castle of Spiš was included in this group of Spiš monuments.
and its environs, Banská Štiavnica and Banská Štiavnica is a Town Monument Reserve which demon-
Vlkolínec. In 2000, the historic town strates the mining tradition in Slovakia. Vlkolínec represents
of Bardejov was added and in 2008, a reserve of traditional folk architecture and Bardejov is consi-
wooden churches of the Slovak part dered to be the most Gothic town in Slovakia.
of Carpathian Mountain Area were Wooden churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian
entered in the List. Mountain area possess an extraordinary worldwide value, too.
The Castle of Spiš is the largest The churches include: Roman Catholic churches in Hervartov
medieval castle compound in and Tvrdošín, Evangelical articular churches in Kežmarok,
central Europe along with Leštiny and Hronsek, and churches of Eastern rite in
the little town of Spišské Bodružal, Ladomírová and Ruská Bystrá.
Podhradie (with typical Bardejov Town
Renaissance and Ba- Conservation Reserve
roque burgher houses),
the church town of Wooden Churches
Spišská Kapitula (including of the Slovak part of the
several sacral monuments Vlkolínec Levoča, Spišský Hrad Carpathian Mountain Area
and above all the impressive and the Associated
two-tower cathedral of St Cultural Monuments
Martin) and the Gothic church of the Holy
Spirit in Žehra from the 14th century and Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica
frescoes in its interior from the 14th and and the Technical Monuments
15th centuries. Well conserved monuments in its Vicinity
along with the charming natural setting