Culture & history

Culture & history

Discover the story of the Tatras and Spiš in museums, at the Symbolic Cemetery, in UNESCO churches and Art Nouveau Tatra villas.

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Múzeum TANAP-u, Tatranská Lomnica

The most visited nature museum in the Tatras (since 1883) with exhibits on wildlife, conservation and ethnography.

~6 km
~5 €
Celoročne

Symbolický cintorín pri Popradskom plese

A memorial below Ostrva with over 160 plaques and 50 carved crosses to mountain victims; a cultural monument.

~15 km (+ pešo ~1 h)
Zdarma
Máj – október

Kežmarský hrad

A well-preserved 15th-century medieval town castle, now a museum with a lookout tower in historic Kežmarok.

~20 km
~5 €
Celoročne

Drevený artikulárny kostol, Kežmarok (UNESCO)

A wooden Evangelical church (1687–1717) built without a single nail, on the UNESCO list since 2008.

~20 km
~4 €
Apríl – október

Podtatranské múzeum, Poprad

One of Slovakia's oldest museums (1876) with a Neanderthal exhibit from Gánovce and the tomb of a Poprad nobleman.

~13 km
~3 €
Celoročne

Spišská Sobota – historické námestie

An urban heritage reserve with burgher houses and the Church of St George with an altar by Master Paul.

~14 km
Zdarma
Celoročne

Grandhotel Starý Smokovec

The first grand Tatra hotel (1904) in Art Nouveau style; famous guests stayed here and the Hrebienok funicular station is right beside it.

~1,5 km
Zdarma
Celoročne

Drevený kostolík, Nový Smokovec

A wooden Evangelical church from 1887 tucked below the Nový Smokovec spa — one of the oldest Tatra churches, a quiet tip.

~1 km
Zdarma
Celoročne

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