Thread: Great Moravia
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Old 02-01-2008, 08:06 PM   #2
sandyphoebetvmaa

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In Nitra I don't know, but there is a place on the Danube just outside Bratislava called Devin where if I remember rightly the mission to evangelise Slovakia arrived. It's a beautiful place, an ancient fort overlooking the confluence of the Danube and (I believe) the Morava. When the Slovaks began their long struggle for independance from the Hungarians, their nationalist intellectuals used to meet there to drink beer and foment revolution. For a euro a pint you can still drink excellent Slovak beer just under the fort. You reach Devin with a town bus from Novi Most bus terminus.
In Bratislava, on the hill leading up to the castle, there is a lovely Orthodox Church overlooking the town. Intersting to note that Slovaks, who are mostly Catholic, celebrate Saints Cyril and Methodius, who brought them the Word well before the schism. Hope this info is of some use, love, Simon
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