SLOVAKIA - Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve

 Postcard sent by vonlewentz in a missing unesco tag.

Sent 27/02/2023.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 2000

Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this region. Among other remarkable features, it also contains a small Jewish quarter around a fine 18th-century synagogue. The town of Bardejov is located in north-eastern Slovakia, on a floodplain terrace of the river Topľa near the Polish border. Due to its proximity to the major trade route that stretches across the Carpathian Mountains, from Hungary into Poland, Bardejov was able to develop into an important medieval town.

The town’s surviving urban plan, with a regular division of streets around a spacious market square, is an indication of European civilization from the 13th to 14th centuries. Burghers’ houses, dating from the first half of the 15th century, surround three sides of the square and document the highly developed burgess culture. The fourth side of the square is closed by the Roman Catholic Church of St. Giles, a three-naved Gothic basilica with a precious collection of eleven late Gothic altars. The Renaissance town hall occupies the centre of the square. The historic core of the town is encircled by the fortification system which was, at the time of its construction, one of the most advanced in Central Europe. The area of the town’s historic core was declared a Town Conservation Reserve in 1950. Bardejov also has a well-preserved small Jewish suburb. This quarter, developed over the 18th century around a synagogue (1725-1747), still contains a unique set of surviving buildings from that era: a kosher slaughter house, some ritual baths, and a meeting building (Beth Hamidrash).

Bardejov provides exceptionally well-preserved evidence of the economic and social structure of trading towns in medieval Central Europe. Its surviving building stock represents a developed burgess culture and Jewish community, thus illustrating a multi-national and multi-cultural society.   

Thank you for this beautiful card, Laco. I love the card! It´s been really interesting reading about your class projects, thank you!

SLOVAKIA - Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments

Postal enviada por Laco por un Direct swap a cambio de una UNESCO de Marruecos.

Envío - 03 de Noviembre del 2017.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1993
EXTENSION/EXTENSIÓN: 2009

Spišský Hrad has one of the largest ensembles of 13th and 14th century military, political and religious buildings in eastern Europe, and its Romanesque and Gothic architecture has remained remarkably intact.
The extended site features the addition of the historic town-centre of Levoča founded in the 13th and 14th centuries within fortifications. Most of the site has been preserved and it includes the 14th century church of St James with its ten alters of the 15th and 16th centuries, a remarkable collection of polychrome works in the Late Gothic style, including an 18.6 metre high alterpiece by completed around 1510 by Master Paul.

Levoča, fundada en los siglos XIII y XIV, está rodeada de fortificaciones y presenta un buen estado de conservación. Entre sus edificios figura la iglesia de Santiago, con sus diez altares de los siglos XV y XVI, una notable colección de retablos de madera polícroma de estilo gótico tardío que incluye el retablo mayor, de 18,6 metros de altura, realizado en torno al año 1510 por el Maestro Pablo. Spisský Hrad es uno de los conjuntos de edificios militares, políticos y religiosos de arquitectura románica y gótica de los siglos XIII y XIV más vastos en Europa Oriental y se ha conservado admirablemente intacto.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/620

Thanks for this awesome and big card Laco! And for putting such great stamps on it!

SLOVAKIA - Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity

Postal enviada por Laco en un Direct swap a cambio de una UNESCO de Marruecos.

Envío - 03 de Noviembre del 2017.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1993

Over the centuries, the town of Banská Štiavnica was visited by many outstanding engineers and scientists who contributed to its fame. The old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past.

En el transcurso de los siglos, acudieron a esta ciudad numerosos ingenieros y científicos que contribuyeron a darle fama. El antiguo centro minero medieval se transformó en una ciudad con palacios renacentistas, iglesias del siglo XVI, elegantes plazas y mansiones señoriales. El centro urbano se integra perfectamente en el paisaje circundante, donde se hallan vestigios importantes de las actividades mineras y metalúrgicas de antaño.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/618

Thanks for this awesome card Laco and for the beautiful stamps!

SLOVAKIA - Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst

Postal enviada por Rita  en un Direct swap.

Envío - 31 de Octubre del 2016.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 1995
EXTENSION: 2000

The variety of formations and the fact that they are concentrated in a restricted area means that the 712 caves currently identified make up a typical temperate-zone karstic system. Because they display an extremely rare combination of tropical and glacial climatic effects, they make it possible to study geological history over tens of millions of years.

Las 712 grutas descubiertas hasta hoy presentan una gran variedad de formas y se concentran en un área reducida, formando un sistema cárstico característico de la zona templada. La extraordinaria conjunción de efectos climáticos tropicales y glaciares que han dejado su huella en estas formaciones posibilita el estudio de un periodo de varias decenas de millones de años de la evolución geológica del planeta.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/725

Primera postal de Eslovaquia!

Thanks for this awesome card Rita!