Dr. Stefan - The West of Slovakia

Bratislava • Záhorská Bystrica • Stupava ( The economic centre of the region Záhorie. The remainders of the Roman military station near the old trade route. ) • Lozorno ( Well preserved clay houses, in the past the interior was decorated by wall paintings, originally by fingers dipped in a white paint. In the 16-th century Croatian refugees settled here. ) • Jabloňové • Pernek • Kuchyňa • Rohožník (Two quarries and a modern cement factory in the town. ) • Sološnica • Plavecké Podhradie ( It lies on the area of "plavecký" karst in the central part of the Small Karpaty between the villages Rohožník and Prievaly, on an area of 35 km2, with lots of nice valleys and 11 caves. ) • Plavecký hrad ( The ruin of the castle on a steep foothill of the Small Karpaty. From 1641 till 20-th century it belonged to the Pálfy's family. ) • Plavecký Mikuláš ( In the 11-th and the 12-th century the Plavci - the guards of the Hungarian borders - lived here. Well-preserved clay houses with fenced yards. ) • Plavecký Peter ( The village originated on the Hungarian border, guarded by "Polovci". ) • Prievaly ( The oldest mention of this village is from 1439. It was a part of the castle's estate ( Korlátka), it lied near the Bohemian route. It used to be a town with its own coat of arms and a privilege to have a fair. ) • Cerová ( It came into existence in 1890 by joining of the two villages - Cerová and Lieskové. There is a park with the highest green douglas fir in Slovakia and other exotic trees. ) • Jablonica • Senica ( The economic centre of the northern Záhorie. The most important is a factory which produces artificial fibres - Slovenský hodváb, built in 1945. ) • Rybky • Smrdáky ( A bath town, cold mineralized water with the sulphur and mud. Skin, non-inflammation, rheumatic and nuerologic illnesses are cured here. ) • Osuské • Hradište pod Vrátnom ( There was an earthquake in 1906. In the past the women knitted and made special soft white laces here. ) • Brezová pod Bradlom ( In the 19-th century it became a center of the activities of Ľudovít Štúr. This was a centre of the Slovak uprising in 1848. ) • Bradlo ( The highest peak of the hilly country Myjavská pahorkatina, woodless and erosion-modelled rock. There is a monument of Milan Rastislav Štefánik on the top. ) • Košariská ( A village in the south of Myjavská pahorkatina. Two- floor houses with a typical hand made window decoration. White lace is still made here. ) • Prašník • Vrbové ( It lies on the spur of Trnavská pahorkatina. Móric Beňovský, the king of Madagaskar was born here. ) • Chtelnica ( An agricultural village on the place where the northeren part of Trnavská pahorkatina joins the south-east foothill of the Small Karpaty. ) • Dechtice ( The first inhabitants arrived in the Neolithic era. Bronze Age artefacts were discovered here. In the 16-th century "Habanski" potters settled here. ) • Naháč ( Juraj Fándly - the writer of the Age of Enlightement lived and worked here from 1780 to 1807. ) • Trstín ( Gravel is mined here and there is also a stone quarry . A village came into existence on the old Bohemian route. ) • Smolenice ( An industrial town in the eastern part of the Small Karpaty. The Driny cave is the only cave which was formed from a crock in the rock. It was discovered in 1929. Above the village - a castle Smolenice. ( Originally a defence castle built in the 14-th century to protect the passes of the Small Karpaty and the Bohemian route. ) • Horné Orešany ( In the 16-th century the "Habánski" potters settled here. There are well-known vineyards, a fine red wine is produced here. ) • Dolné Orešany • Doľany ( Some pieces of the original clay architecture are preserved here. One of them is the house where Juraj Fándly died in 1811. ) • Častá ( A small town in the foothills of the Small Karpaty. There is a castle Červený Kameň near the town. ( A big, well preserved castle on the quint hill above the village Píla.)) • Dubová ( The first mention of this village is from 1111 in the letters of the monastery Zoborský Kláštor. About 1540 Croatian colonists settled here. ) • Kráľová • Modra ( Medieval Modra developed since the 12-th century. Viticulture was the main part of its economy. In 1607 it became a free royal town with many German settlers. Its traditional pottery has been developing since the 17-th century. There are preserved parts of the town's fortifications from 1610 - 1646. ) • Vinosady • Pezinok ( Famous for its wines, in the 14-th century gold was washed in the small stream Limbašský potok. In 1647 it became a free royal town. In the 18-th century the gold mining stopped, but after the discovery of ores the mining started in the area of Cajla again. ) • Svätý Jur ( An old town with big vineyards, the smallest of the towns of the so called Západoslovenská pentapolitana (the western part of Slovakia which includes five towns: Modra, Pezinok, Svätý Jur, Bratislava and Trnava, all of them well known for their viticulture.) In 1647 the town became a free royal town which had to give 22.000 l of a good wine to the king each year. ) • Jurský Šúr ( A nature preserve since 1959, depressive swamps on the Podunajská nížina lowlands with the original alder forest and some of the steppe's trees. ) • Bratislava