We drove back to Bratislava from Kosice, we had intended to go through Hungary but me and the Garmin (?) ended up going through Southern Slovakia. It turned out to be interesting. Once again we saw castle ruins every few miles. Near the Hungarian border we went to Krasha Horka Hrad (Castle) but it was closed. It has an interesting history being part of the famous Andrassy (Count Andrassy of Sissi fame) family of Hungary. It is also one of the best preserved castles because of its location, it was not destroyed by the Germans or the Soviets.
We then drove to Nitra which was for me a pleasure. It is a city with a 6,000 year history. It has an interesting importance to the entire European and Christian history. In about 860 AD the King of the Land invited the Emperor of the Byzentine church to send missionaries to help teach his people. The missionaries selected were two brothers, Cyril and Methodius. They learned the language and wrote the gospels into the language of the people and developed the Glagolitic alphabet, which is the precedessor to the Cyrillic alphabet which is still used in Russia and other euro-asian countries. There was a wonderful small museum in the Nitra Castle which had many old manuscripts from the work done by Cyril and Methodius. (see picture below)
KRASHA HORKA HRAD
STATUE OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS
ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT IN MUSEUM
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