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Kermesse and Harvest Festival Revived in Nitra This Weekend

Kermesse and Harvest Festival Revived in Nitra This Weekend

Nitra, August 16 (TASR) – Nitra, the oldest city in Slovakia, will see a city kermesse and harvest festival this coming weekend for the first time after a long hiatus, TASR learnt on Friday. The city kermesse used to take place in Nitra in mid-August as of at least the 18th

Lassakova: Burnt Krasna Horka Castle to Be Fully Reconstructed in 2023

Lassakova: Burnt Krasna Horka Castle to Be Fully Reconstructed in 2023

Krasna Horka, July 6 (TASR) – Krasna Horka Castle (Kosice region), which was heavily damaged by fire seven years ago, could be fully reconstructed and open as such for visitors in 2023, said Culture Minister Lubica Lassakova (Smer-SD) at a press conference at the castle on Saturday. The reconstruction project worth

Exhibitions Commemorating Stefanik Open in Rome

Exhibitions Commemorating Stefanik Open in Rome

Rome, June 18 (TASR) – Two exhibitions entitled ‘Stefanik – Man of Legend’, created by Michal Ksinan, and ‘Milan Rastislav Stefanik: A Slovak Legend in Stone and Bronze’, organised by Pavol Demes with photographs taken by Zdenek Dzurjanin, were opened at the Slovak Cultural Institute in Rome on Monday (June 17) to

Exhibition Devoted to Chiari Kicks Off 'Dolce Vitaj' Festival of Italian Culture

Exhibition Devoted to Chiari Kicks Off 'Dolce Vitaj' Festival of Italian Culture

Bratislava, May 16 (TASR) – The twelfth ‘Dolce Vitaj’ annual festival of Italian culture in Slovakia will be kicked off on Thursday by an exhibition devoted to Avant-Garde Florentine conceptual artist and experimental musician Giuseppe Chiari (1926-2007). “An exhibition of items from a collection of Carlo Palli in Prata will be

Milan Rastislav Stefanik Chosen as Greatest Slovak

Milan Rastislav Stefanik Chosen as Greatest Slovak

Bratislava, May 2 (TASR) – General, diplomat, First World War politician and co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 Milan Rastislav Stefanik has become the winner of the ‘Greatest Slovak’ national poll, TASR learnt from the results of the poll presented live by public-service broadcaster Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) on

Faces of 'Three Kosice Martyrs' Reconstructed after 400 Years

Faces of 'Three Kosice Martyrs' Reconstructed after 400 Years

Kosice, May 1 (TASR) – The faces of the Three Kosice Martyrs – Catholic priests Mark Krizin, Melchior Grodziecki and Stephen Pongracz, who were killed during a Protestant upheaval in 1619 – have been reconstructed by an international forensic team to mark the 400th anniversary of their deaths, TASR learnt on Wednesday. The

Survey: Majority of Slovaks Views Easter Whippings in Positive Light

Survey: Majority of Slovaks Views Easter Whippings in Positive Light

Bratislava, April 19 (TASR) – Half of Slovaks (51 percent) perceive Easter primarily as a religious holiday, whereas one third (31 percent) consider it to be a celebration of spring with many traditions and almost a fifth (18 percent) see it only as days off work without any special meaning, according