Zoli's cities, areas. Zilina, Poprad, Presov, Martin, Spisska Nova Ves

Spis Castle, Slovakia

The Book
"Zoli"

Touring with her poetry, and singing.

Zoli at p. 118.

Get an idea of the parallel cultures in Slovakia - The Gypsies, some settled in their own shanty towns at the time, some traveling in caravans. Now see the other culture - the castle, the middle ages, the commercialism, the life that they kept themselves apart from.

Photos from the Zilina area, mountainous, with valleys good for caravans, following rivers. Castles on the ridges.

Here is the huge 13th Century Spis Castle, near the town of Spisska Nova Ves, on a great plain. See ://www.tanap.sk/spiscastle.html. This castle enabled the area to hold off the Tartars, at least for a while. Read about the Tartars, also known as Tatars, from the Russian perspective at the time, at //www.logoi.com/notes/russia/tartar_invasion.



We spent time at Bojnice Castle, not far from the Zilina-Presov area, because it had a ghost festival going on at the time, an annual event complete with a narrative-drama tour of the castle, and a street fair with fabulous food - see Slovakia Road Ways, Bojnice Castle.