How to get there: Begin your hike in the village of Zbyňov near Žilina in northern Slovakia. A 3.5-kilometre-long educational ...
Archaeologists discovered a curated collection of 29 blades and points, arranged in such a way that researchers believe they ...
Picturing Poland, you might imagine a medieval square in Kraków or a steaming plate of pierogi dumplings. But this country of ...
More than 15 years after the Vancouver Olympics, retired French biathlon star Martin Fourcade was allocated another gold medal Friday ...
Unknown musings of the founding father of an independent Czechoslovakia, its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, are ...
A ngela also introduced me to the band Jump5, a pop group of five squeaky-voiced blond Christian kids. She particularly loved ...
Experience autumn like never before! Discover 10 breathtaking destinations to witness fall colors in 2025, from Japan to ...
The town in Perth and Kinross was listed among destinations including Japan and New Hampshire - and was even ranked above ...
Greetings from Slovakia, where coalition MPs have decided to “suffer” alongside the people — and where the Peter Kotlár saga has made a comeback, perhaps to distract from the government’s ...
By Martin Clark In Western Europe, if we go back in time just 100 years, almost everything that our Great Grandparents ate, ...
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The Golden Age of Gelnica

Gelnica reached its heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries, when gold, silver, copper and iron ore were mined in its surroundings. At that time, the Thurzos family, which owned one of the most powerful ...
Each month has at least one gemstone. Here is what you need to know about August's birthstones: peridot, spinel and sardonyx.