Introduction
100km (62 miles) E of Poprad; 400km (248 miles) E of Bratislava
Kosice (www.kosice.sk), Slovakia's second-biggest city after Bratislava, has transformed itself from a smoggy, provincial backwater into one of the country's most attractive urban destinations within the short span of a decade. Much of the credit goes to the former Slovak president, and former Kosice mayor, Rudolf Schuster, who vigorously promoted development of the city, including the extensive renovation of the main drag, Hlavná ulica. Hlavná is a stunner from end to end, a 30-minute corso that takes you past the country's biggest Gothic cathedral, its turn-of-the-20th-century State Theater, a lovely little park with a singing fountain, and, in warm weather, a never-ending row of outdoor terraces, packed with stylish coffee drinkers.
Kosice has been an important market town on major east-west and north-south trade routes for centuries, and during the 16th and 17th centuries served as a bastion for the Hungarian...
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East Slovakia Museum (Vychodoslovenské múzeum)
Primarily of interest for the massive collection of gold coins, around 3,000 or so, that were originally minted in Kremnica from the 15th to the...
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Lower Gate (Dolná Braná)
Kosice residents remember with horror the mid-1990s, when pretty much the entire Hlavná ulica was torn apart during the city's general large-scale...
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Cathedral of St. Elizabeth (Dóm svátej Alzbety)
The country's largest cathedral is a master work, both inside and outside. Admire the relief on the north side of the cathedral, and the immense...
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