Travel

Apart from Košice, Slovakia's second main city, and Prešov, a university town, one could say that almost everywhere further eastwards in Slovakia, from a tourist perspective, still remains relatively off the beaten track. There are a few exceptions, most notably the out-of-the-ordinary locales of ...

If certain authors are forever linked with certain places – Joyce/Dublin, Dickens/London, Hardy/”Wessex”, Kafka/ Prague, Hugo/Paris and so on – the works of Hungary’s most internationally known writer, Sándor Márai, found their wellspring in Košice, Slovakia, or Kassa as it was named when in ...

Neighbouring Slovenia is a diverse, green country and easy to reach via the M7 motorway. The capital, Ljubljana, 450 kilometres from Budapest, also makes a delightful sojourn before heading to the Adriatic coast, the Lake Bled region and elsewhere within the Mediterranean sphere.

Health, history and culture come together in downtown Pécs, Hungary’s fifth-largest city, when your base is Fibula Residence Hotel & Wellness, newly built in an area where the Roman emperor Diocletian once marched through with his army and on the spot where archaeologists unearthed ...

The castle of Visegrad and its surroundings will undergo comprehensive refurbishment under the government's Visegrad 700 programme, the government commissioner in charge of the scheme said on Monday.

Venice in all its splendour hardly needs an introduction whether you have been there or not. It was always my family's ambition to one day go to the Pearl of the Adriatic. But we frequently held back, or at least I did, mainly due ...