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In their works, artists express the creativity of their own Soul...This gift was given to them by God to breathe life into ordinary things like paints and canvas. Kamila g. Art Gallery & Studio in Vysoká nad Kysucou is one of such unique places in the Žilina region.
Makov – the western-most village of Kysuce lies in Javorníky Mountains, in the Turzovská vrchovina highlands. Makov was created after seven local villages united in 1895. The village has a mountainous character and excellent conditions for hiking and tourism.
Each of us has dreamed of what it would be like to be an outstanding person. To discover the unknown, to experience something that no one else can experience, to have no boundaries and to move on incessantly. With a view of inspiring people or taking a piece of Slovakia to the Moon.
National parks: 0. Protected Landscape Areas (CHKO) Kysuce (districts CA, KM) Protected Site Chmúra (CA) National Nature Reservations (NPR) Malý Polom (CA), Veľká Rača (CA)
People have always been interested in the Earth, where its borders are and what lies beyond them. Is there anything further? Such questions arise again and again, on everything in the space, on its creation and functioning.
The springs are called after the place of their occurrence – all three of them are in the northern slope of the Vojtovský hill, which forms the southern border of Čadca town above the Rieka valley.
The commemorative room of the writer Rudolf Jašík is situated in the Cultural House in Turzovka together with a writer’s relief.
Šance - Valy formed a whole system of defensive objects connected by ramparts with ditches supposed to serve as defence of the Jablunkov pass against the Turkish threat. In the 17th century, they were used to defend Silesia against the incursions of Hungarian rebel troops during the anti-Habsburg uprisings.
On Friday morning on 20 April 1945 a patrol of around 80 soldiers from Vlasov's Russian Army of Liberation was passing through the settlement Semeteš, in the district of Vysoká nad Kysucou from Veľké Rovné to Turzovka.
Only a bust of Ján Palárik and a commemorative table are placed in the centre of village Raková, on the place where the original childhood house of Ján Palárik used to stand. The commemorative room of Ján Palárik is situated in the cultural house in Raková.
The house and estate of Š. Hunčík is a unique example of combining knowledge and experience gained during experience with the local folk tradition.
The Parish Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, built in 1757 – 1759 in late Barocco style, is the most significant sacral building in Turzovka, it is registered in the list of national cultural monuments.
Built in 1734 on the place of a former wooden church, the baroque church of St. Bartholomew in the centre of Čadca is the oldest preserved church in upper Kysuce. The church is a national cultural monument.
The design of Calvary in Skalité was prepared by Jozef Fürst from Čadca, a bricklayer master, in June 1940. The Calvary was completed and the surrounding terrain was treated in August 1941.
Calvary in Oščadnica was built by believers from Oščadnica as gratitude for the fact that all the inhabitants survived the World War II and that no tragedy hit the village in spite of fierce battles fought for a whole month in Veľká Rača in 1945.
The commemorative room is situated in a library in the village of Čierne and it is open for the public. The room was opened in 2003. It displays various objects explaining the past of our ancestors.
The memorial, built in 1896 to commemorate the one thousandth anniversary of the Hungarians’ arrival in the Carpathian valley, stands in the town centre. Turul, a sacred bird, stood on the memorial as a symbol of old Magyars (Hungarians).
The memorial was built in 1975 and is situated in Makov, local part called “U Tabuli”. Josef Malejovský, an academic sculptor, is the author of the 4.7 metre high statue made of bronze and stone.
The memorial is on the site of a former parish, where the representatives of Slovak National Council (Ľ. Štúr, J. M. Hurban and military uprising commanders) met at the beginning of December 1848.
The childhood house of Jozef Króner, a significant Slovak actor and Oscar winner, is situated near the railway station in Staškov. Jozef Kroner was born in “vochterne”, a small railway guard house, to a family of railwayman on 20 March 1924. He died on 12 March 1998 in Bratislava.
World War I cost the village of Skalité 52 lives. The list of victims is given on the Monument built by the municipality from the citizens' donations.
The monument zone Klokočov – the settlement of Do Kršle features objects of folk architecture of various cultural and historical value which were created during the gradual settlement of the foothill areas of Kysuce since the 16th century.
A large Jewish community arrived in Kysuce in the second half of the 18th century; however members of the community are sporadically mentioned also in later periods. Thirteen Jews were reported directly in Vysoká in 1790.
