Zakopane: Oravsky Castle & Orava Village

If you are currently staying in Zakopane and have time to visit Slovakia as well, we can take you to the Oravsky Castle which is one of the biggest attractions in the northern part of the country. It is attractively situated above the Orava River on a natural, high rock formation and the way how it was built reminds an „Eagles Nest”. Today, it is recognized as one of the most beautiful medieval castles in Slovakia. During the second part of the tour we will head towards Zuberec and Brestova to show you a charming place – the open-air Museum of the Orava Village located in the surroundings of the Rohacze Mountains. The area has almost 20 hectares and is divided into five parts with 50 houses built in the typical folk style. The museum is available to visit all year round and in the high season many interesting events take place here – for example the international Podrohacsky Folk Festival every August.

We organize private tours to the Oravsky Castle and Orava village from Zakopane on request

Tour itinerary:

1. pick up from your hotel in Zakopane
2. up to 1,5 hour drive from Zakopane to the Oravsky Castle in Slovakia by private car/van with our English speaking driver
3. visiting the Oravsky Castle during the Main tour for approx 1 hour and 15 min on your own or with an application in chosen language in your mobile phone; during the tour you will have the chance to see:

• Lower Castle – here are the Historical Exhibition, Renaissance interiors and Thurzo Palace – the main sites of the tour
• Middle Castle – contains the Historical Exhibition, the Natural History Exhibition and the Ethnographic Exhibition
• Upper Castle – the section with the oldest architecture of the whole castle

4. approx 45 min drive from the Oravsky Castle to the open-air Museum of the Orava Village in Zuberec and Brestova
5. up to 1,5 hour of sightseeing of the Museum on your own where you will see:

• Marketplace of the Lower Orava – the representative part of the region with high-class houses
• Lane of the Zamagurie Region – houses and farmsteads of wealthy farmers which represent the classic construction of an Orava village
• Goral Settlement – represents the impoverished fragment of the village situated in the south-eastern slopes of the Oravske Beskydy mountains.
• Late-Gothic wooden church and cemetery – established in the 15th century
• Mill – built next to the brook together with a sawmill and fulling mill with the popular water-driven mechanism

6. up to 1,5 hour drive back from Zuberec and Brestova to Zakopane
7. your hotel drop off in Zakopane

Whole tour lasts approx 6 hours

Prices:

• 700 PLN per person (1 person)
• 380 PLN per person (2 persons)
• 270 PLN per person (3 persons)
• 240 PLN per person (4 persons)
• 210 PLN per person (5 persons)
• 190 PLN per person (6 persons)
• 180 PLN per person (7 persons)
• Contact us (8 persons or more)

What is included?:

• hotel pick up and drop off at chosen time
• private transportation by comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle
• private English-speaking driver’s assistance during whole tour
• entrance tickets to the Oravsky Castle and Orava Village Open-Air Museum,