presentation

1. Slovakia
Základná škola Viliama Záborského Vráble
Made for Erasmus+ „Socialize, observe, learn“

2. Slovakia
• Slovakia is situated in the hearth of Europe.
• Our country isn´t big, but tourists can visit and admire
beautiful nature and historical sights.
• You certainly heard about our mountain called the
High Tatras – Vysoké Tatry in Slovak language. We are
proud of them much.

3. • Slovakia is divided into regions, which offer
various historic traditions and natural
museums.
• We will show you especially our the most
popular protected natural places called
national parks.

4. Region - PoŽitavie
• We start in our town Vráble, which lies in Nitra
region in area called Požitavie around the river
Žitava.
• Our town lies in lowland called Podunajská. From
the North it is surrounded with mountains Považský
Inovec, Tríbeč and Štiavnické pohorie.

5. Nitra
• Nitra is the city about 20 km from Vrable situated at the
foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra.
• It is the biggest town in this region.
• Nitra became the capital of the principality of Nitra in the
9th century.
• Princes Pribina, Svätopluk, Mojmír and Rastislav
were rulers in Nitra principality.

6. • Cyril a Methodius settled in Nitra principality in 9th
century. They created the Glagolitic - the first
Slavonic manuscript.
• Nitra castle is located in the Old Town. It is a
dominant of the city and a national cultural
monument. It was built in 11th century.
• St. Emmeram's Cathedral
is the part of the castle.
It was originally built
in the Gothic style.

7. Bratislava
• Bratislava is the capital city of Slovakia.
• It lies on the river Danube about 100 km from
our town Vrable.
• You can find beautiful historical sights in Old
Town under Michal´s gate and the castle here.

8. PovaŽie
• Now we could go to the North and we get to the
beautiful region called Považie on the river Váh.
• We can admire very nice natural scenery of
mountains called Small and Big Fatra and
Strážovské vrchy.

9. • On the way we can stop to see the castle
Beckov.
• We can go on to the town Trenčín with another
famous castle.
Beckov
Trenčín

10. Region Kysuce
• This region is located up the city Žilina until to Polish
border.
• We can admire beautiful nature and moutains called
Javorníky and Kysucké Beskydy.
• Here we can find famous mountain railway called
Vychylovka with natural museum of life in Kysuce in the
past.

11. Orava
• It is the region in the North of Slovakia with mountains Oravské
Beskydy and West Tatras.
• We can visit the castle called Orava undercastle.
• Orava dam offers holidays at the water.
• There is also natural museum Zuberec in which we can know the
life of people in this county in the past.

12. Region Liptov
• We will continue to the East and we get in the National
park the Low Tatras – Nízke Tatry in region called
Liptov around the town Liptovský Mikuláš.
• We can see here a great dam , too.

13. • Tourists can visit caves called Demänovská,
get with cableway to the peak Chopok from
which we can admire the highest hill of the
Low Tatras-Ďumbier.
• There are a lot of hotels, restaurants and
tourists centres for example Jasná.

14. Region Spiš
• Near the High Tatras there is the region called Spiš
with famous castle with the same name – Spiš. But
only ruins remained from this castle.
• In this region you can admire and visit our national
parks – The High Tatras, Slovak paradise and
Pieniny.

15. The High Tatras – Vysoké Tatry
• As we mentioned – the High Tatras are the highest
mountain in Slovakia full of beautiful forests,
moutain lakes , rock shields, waterfalls.
• You can admire here also splendid mountain lakes –
Štrbské, Popradské, Skalnaté.

16. • From Old Smokovec with interesting
architecture we get to Hrebienok with cable car.
• Lomnica is very nice skiing centre.
• Gerlach is the highest peak in the High Tatras -
2,656 m high.

17. St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice
• St. Elisabeth Cathedral is famous Gothic
cathedral in Košice in the East of Slovakia.
• It is Slovakia´s biggest church, as well as one
of the easternmost Gothic cathedrals in
Europe.

18. • In Slovakia we can find and visit a lot of other
beautiful places and castles.
• It is the best to come to Slovakia and personally
know our very nice country.
The most beautiful Castle of Bojnice

19. See you in Slovakia
Thank you for attention
Pupils of Erasmus+ club
Základná škola Viliama Záborského
Vráble
Slovakia

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