Chalupkovo

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• Enjoy the entertainment for the whole family:
• 7 year-round open outdoor pools with geothermal water (from 28 °C to 40 °C)
• 3 indoor pools made of stainless steel with clean heated water (from 27 °C to 36 °C)
• 1 indoor stainless slide
• atrium with 2 open air whirlpools (the water is from 30 °C to 40 °C)
• Wellness Centre – Vital World – a complex of 5 saunas and inhalations (salt, herbal, Roman, menthol, Finnish), cooling poll, whirlpool, Kneipp's bath, tepidarium, hydro-massage showers, …
• Relax Centre – fitness, massages, solarium, manicure, pedicure
• Congress Centre – conference rooms

Surrounded by beautiful nature, only 5 minutes from the centre of Ružomberok, there lies the restaurant, accommodation facility and wellness centre U dobrého pastiera. Shepherd's hut was built in the traditional Slovakian style, using natural materials. The stylish restaurant offers cosy interior and sitting on an outdoor terrace, too. There is a free wireless connection to the Internet throughout the building.

Come and taste unique foods prepared by the genuine chef Andre who came right from Sardinia. Pleasant service, authentic Italian atmosphere and excellent music guarantee a nice experience. Taste at least one from 45 types of pizza, Italian pasta with great sauces, or just come and relax at a cup of Italian cappuccino or a glass of unique wine. Lunch menu is prepared on every working day.

Perfect conditions for downhill skiing, slalom, ski touring or snowboarding and high quality services – all this is here for you. In the Park Snow Donovaly, you can use ski and snowboard rent, ski service or a ski school for beginners. More than 11 km of maintained  ski tracks on 17 ski runs are available for you. More than 7 km of the slopes are snowed up artificially. You simply cannot miss an opportunity to experience exciting night skiing or to have a magnificent bird's eye view of snowy mountains from a paraglide. Moreover, there is an excellent terrain for snowboarding, freeriding, jumping and many other activities...

Bowling Club Stodola can be found on the way from Banská Bystrica right at the entrance to the town of Ružomberok. Two bowling lines (each for 12 persons), laser shooting range and a flight simulator are waiting for you. Guests can entertain themselves at table football, table hockey or at a billiard table.

The most visited exhibition of  the Museum of Liptov is the museum in nature. Apart from an exhibition of traditional lifestyle and work of various social classes in the region of Liptov, you can visit regular yearly programs, too.

The exhibited objects come from many Liptov villages, mainly from areas which were flooded out by Liptovská Mara dam. These objects are copies of original buildings with many authentic features. Apart from wooden folk architecture, two original stone buildings from middle ages can be found here. It is an early-Gothic church from the village of Liptovská Mara and a Gothic-Renaissance mansion from the village of Parížovce. Exhibitions of traditional lifestyle in Liptov report e.g. housing of a landless, a peasant, a farmer, a craftsman or a mayor living here around the turn of the 19th and 20th century and in the first third of the 20th century. Attractive exhibitions of housing of the upper class of Liptov yeomanry are located in an yeoman curie from Paludza and in a mansion from Parížovce.

Educational path
The museum offers a cultural and educational project for pupils of elementary schools, kindergartens and families with children. The project is focused on nature and it is consists of two parts: an information spot and an educational path. The information spot has been set up in a cooperation with the National Park High Tatras. It is located in a house which contains 3D textual and photographic material about nature. The path is actually a maze of pathways with different surface structure – wooden material (bark, wooden chips, sawdust), natural material (moss, grass, needles) and geomorphological material (sand, gravel, alum, crushed stone, soil). The are several information panels and a brook with various types of crossings (bridge, footbridge, ford).

An exhibition of the historical rolling stock of the Považská railway was opened up for public on 13 June, 2004. The railway ran from Liptovský Hrádok, through Liptovská Teplička up to Kráľova Hoľa between the first world war and the year 1972.  Its second branch ran through valleys of the river Čierny Váh, almost to the boundary of the region of Horehronie. Another branch led to Malužiná.

The tourist information centre of the National Park High Tatras was made available for public on 30 June, 2004. A ruined building, situated next to the mansion of Parížovce, had been reconstructed for this purpose. It presents the beauty and value of the nature in the National Park High Tatras. Another part of the exhibition shows the relations between men and nature throughout the history. The sponsorship of the Danish environmental assistance to Eastern Europe (DANCEE) helped to build the information centre. The exposition continues at the educational path, which is mainly intended for families with children.

Services:

• professional lectures
• sale of promotional material and souvenirs
• horse riding
• picture taking and filming for school educational programmes
• picture taking and filming of wedding ceremonies in the interior of the church and mansion
• events ordered in advance
• church and civil marriages in the early-Gothic church in the Museum of Liptov village

The Open Air Museum of Orava Village is situated in the gorgeous environs of Brestová. There are admirable log cabins from southern Orava, agrarian and craftman’s houses with farm buildings and yards, threshing barns and stables from middle Orava and Zamagurie, a historical wooden mill or a sawmill. A local curiosity is a little church from Zábrež, which originated in 16th century. There are also precious historical documents giving evidence about historical linen-making techniques, cloth and blueprint-making processes, the almost forgotten pottery manufacturing or wood processing. The adroitness of our ancestors is imprinted in the tiny houses with narrow windows and shingle roofs, which reflect the atmosphere of old times in Slovakia.

Service for visitors:

• lectors and guides
• entries with a guide according to a time table, individual entries with a textual guide in various languages, special group entries to order
• fast food

The village of Čičmany is the highest situated village in the district of Žilina. The open air museum lies almost at the spring of the river Rajčianka, in a valley of Strážovské hills. The typical feature of this village is its old-time architecture with many decorated log cabins. A part of the village was declared a memorial reserve of folk architecture in 1977 to save it for future generations. Even today, the inhabitants adhere folk traditions. The ornament-making techniques enable them to create pictures, tablecloths and marvellous costumes.
The ethnographic exhibition includes a baroque-classicistic manor house and the baroque church Nájdenia sv. Kríža (Church of Finding of the Holy Cross). The log cabins decorated with ornaments is situated in the lower part of the village. The general exhibition can be found in Raden’s house. The quaint village is home for about 250 people today, although the original population was around 1500. The inhabitants can be proud of the attractive local nature, which is an ideal place for rest.

The castle, which was a fortified settlement for a long time, rises above the village of Oravský Podzámok. It was built at a strategic place of the Hungarian-Polish road near the customs house in Tvrdošín. It has been a regional castle since 1370. The castle was built on a rock and comprises three parts (terraces) – the lower, middle and upper castle. The building process lasted from the half of the 13th century to the early 17th century. There was a lively military and social life in the middle ages, when the castle was owned by Peter Komorovský and Ján Korvín but also under the reign of the Thurzo family.

Rebelling peasants led by Gašpar Pika seized control of the castle for some time in the second half of the 17th century. However, the uprising was militarily suppressed and its leaders as well as the peasants were punished. The castle was burnt down in 1880. After several reconstructions, the Museum of Orava was established here in 1953. Its staff introduces the history of the castle in an uncommon way. An extraordinary tour at the castle, which shows creatures of the past and the art of craftsmen, is held in May. Celebrations of the Museum Day include a demonstration of historical swordplay and folk dance. Children may look forward to a competition for a court jester.
For the courageous ones, a night tour with artificial lighting and various attractions is held several times a year at the castle of Orava. The Festival of amateur-actor theatre companies is organised here, too.

The castle is situated at the beginning of the gorge of Strečno, on the left shore of the river of Váh (looking up the stream). It was built on a limestone rock 420 meters above sea level. It was the most safe fortress in the whole region of Horné Považie.
Even though the history of the castle begun as late as in the half of the 14th century, the first settlements in the region were much older. Archaeological discoveries prove that the castle hill have already been populated in the Younger Stone Age. The first written mention of the castle originated in 1384. It was then named 'comitatus castri Strechyn'. Several possessors of the castle have taken turns since the late 14th century. It was owned by Ján Korvín, Ján Zápoľský, Pavol Kiniži, the families of Pongrácovci, Kostkovci, Deršfiovci, Vešeléniovci and others.  Later on, the castle was extended and rebuilt in the Renaissance style. The unsettled history of the castle had lasted until the end of the 17th century, when the emperor Leopold gave an order to tear it down.

The results of the historical and architectural research led to a partial reconstruction and conservation of the castle. The main gate, main tower, southern palace, northern palace and the chapel were fully reconstructed. The northern tower and space in front of the gate were substantially renovated. A partial reconstruction was carried out in the eastern palace, castle walls and the fortification of the artillery. Rescue, reconstruction and conservation works took place in 1990s and the castle was opened up for public in 1995.

It is a unique masterpiece of Jozef Pekara, who is a native of Rajecké Teplice. The creche, which is 8.5 m long and 3 m wide, is one of the largest carved crèches in Europe. The master carved the whole in linden, depicted the life style, culture and crafts of Slovakian people. All figures are moving, working and enjoying themselves.

The castle lies on a limestone rock 634 m above sea level and 200 m above the surrounding terrain. It is a national cultural monument and one of the most valued monuments of the Spiš region. It shows the development of our architecture from the 12th to the 18th century. With the area of 4 hectares (41 426 m2), it is one of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe.

The history of the castle is very rich. The rock, on which it lies, had already been inhabited in the Stone Age. The largest extent of prehistoric settlements in this region was recorded around the end of the era before Christ and the beginning of the era after Christ. There was a huge fortified settlement of the so-called Púchov culture that time. Walls of this object have been discovered during a recent archaeological research. The research also revealed some peasant's and craftsman's houses and a large cult object. The extent and type of the fortification suggest that there was the administrative centre of the region of middle Spiš. The castle was surrounded by bulwarks, that went through its largest courtyard and are still noticeable today. Another strongly fortified settlement was established at the nearby hill Dreveník after the downfall of the original settlement. Later on, the present castle of Spiš was built up.

The village is located close to the Liptovská Mara dam and the town of Liptovský Mikuláš. There is a wooden articular church, one of the largest wooden churches in Europe. It originated in the village of Paludza, which was flooded during the construction of the dam (1974 – 1982). The first evangelical church in Paludza was built in 1693, after the Šopron assembly. Eighty-two articles were accepted at the meeting and the emperor Leopold allowed Protestants to build wooden churches, which had to be placed outside the village. The church was later rebuilt by the master Jozef Lang without any project (he was unable to read and write). The reconstruction took 8 months and it was finished in 1774. The church tower was build in 1781 and new bells were mounted in 1921 and 1922. The church equipment includes an baroque altar, pulpit, stone font, biblical paintings, chandeliers made of Venetian glass and an organ. The capacity of the church is 6000.