Dr. Stefan - Šariš

Prešov ( A district economic and cultural centre of Šariš. It was mentioned for the first time in 1247, in 1299 Prešov got the town privileges and became a free royal town. In the11-th - the13-th century Hungarian and German immigrants settled here. In the 17-th - the 18-th century the centre of Šariš county. A historical core of the town is a nature preserve concentrated on the square of Hlavná ulica. ) • Solivar ( A complex of objects for mining and cooking salt from the beginning of the 17-th century. ) • Veľký Šariš ( There is the Šarišský hradný vrch hill of volcanic origin above the town. And there is the ruin of the Šarišský hrad castle, built in the 13-th century. ) • Šarišské Michaľany ( One of the biggest villages of Prešov's district. In 1904 a big fire destroyed the village. ) • Sabinov ( In 1480 Sabinov became a part of Pentapolitana. There are some well preserved city walls and bastions. A scenic complex of sacral and secular buildings in the centre of the square. ) • Pečovská Nová Ves ( The squires left here four manor houses and a curia. ) • Červenica pri Sabinove • Jakubova Voľa • Lipany ( In 1849 there was a battle between Russian and Hungarian army. In 1880 the town burnt down. ) • Kamenica ( The town has got an original well preserved houses from the 19-th century built in one line near the river. The ruin of the Kamenický hrad castle above the town. ) • Pusté Pole • Ľubotín ( There used to be a warehouse of salt, raft port, saws and blacksmith shops. ) • Plaveč ( It came into being in the 12-th century when the guards Polovci settled here near the transit to Polland. There is the ruin of the Plavečský hrad on a grass hill near the river Poprad. ) • Orlov • Lenartov • Gerlachov • Tarnov ( There are well preserved wooden and walled houses with a cloister near a room and a homestead under one roof. ) • Bardejov ( The centre of Horný Šariš. The area "terra Bardfa" is mentioned for the first time in 1247. In 1376 Ľudovít I. announced Bardejov to be a free royal town with the same privileges as Budín and Košice had. The fortifications were one of the best medieval ones in Slovakia. Nowadays Bardejov is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Europe. ) • Bardejovské kúpele ( There are 17 mineral wells in this bath town. A museum of folk architecture of Horný Šariš behind the baths. ) • Hervartov ( There is one of the wooden churches in the middle of this village on a small hill near the stream. The church was built in 1500 as a Gothic church dedicated to St. František. ) • Zborov ( A village developed in the Medieval times under the Makovica castle. There is the Zborov ( Makovica ) castle on a sandy hill. It used to be an important castle on a route to Polland. ) • Smilno • Nižná Polianka • Hutka ( When the surfs ran away in 1711 a village became depopulated. Well preserved wooden houses from the 19-th century. ) • Nižný Mirošov • VyšnýOrlík ( Together with Nižný Orlík it was founded according to a trade law in the middle of the 14-th century, the part of the manor estate Makovica. Both of these villages were destroyed quite a lot during the First and the Second World War. ) • Nižný Orlík • Svidník ( The town came into being by joining of Vyšný and Nižný Svidník. Its inhabitants were originally fishermen or they used to breed and sell cattle. The monument of the Soviet army, built in honour of 84,000 Soviet soldiers that were killed. ) There are several wooden houses north-east from Svidník - in the villages Ladomirová, Krajné, Čierno, Hunkovce and Nižný Komárnik. These are all masterpieces usually of anonymous masters. • Okrúhle • Giraltovce ( The town came into being in the 15-th century on a crossing and a terrace Tople. Three manor houses and late Baroque curia are interesting sights. ) • Ďurďoš • Hanušovce nad Topľou ( The town lies on the crossing of a route from central Zemplín to the upper and central Šariš. ) • Bystré ( In 1955 a cement plant Zeocem was built here. Its great quality was rewarded on the exhibition in Budapest in 1868 and on the world exhibition in Paris in 1905. ) • Hlinné ( There is a kaolin deposit here. ) • Soľ • Vranov nad Topľou ( It lies on the Tople terrace and a wall Ondavy. In 1461 it was given the right to have warehouses for Polish broadcloth producers and tradesmen and the right to built fortifications. ) • Herľany ( Baths where the diseases of digestive and neurologic system are cured were established near four wells here in the 18-th century. From 1870 to 1875 a geyser was discovered here while looking for some other sources. ) • Rankovce • Červenica • Dubník ( Nature preserve Dubnícke bane - the labyrinth of old opaline mines. ) • Ličartovce • Petrovany • Prešov