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Kosice and Tokay Wine Road

(direct flights from London Luton, Manchester, Dublin, Prague, Bratislava)

 

The second largest city in Slovakia. The candidate for the European City of Culture 2013. In 2011 it will be hosting the World Ice-Hockey Championships together with Bratislava

 

Short description of programme

 

1^st day

Arrival to Košice - accommodation in a hotel*** - overnight

2^nd day

Košice walking city tour - Tokay Wine Trip - Museum in Trebišov Tokay Wine growing exposition - dinner with Tokay wine tasting in a typical tuff cellar - return to Košice

3^rd day

Trip to Prešov, the largest town in a Šariš region - city tour - Wine Museum - Solivar (a unique complex of objects for exploitation and processing of salt from the 17^th and 18^th centuries) - return to Košice - evening at leisure

4^th day

Departure

 

Package price

 

for 2-3 persons	€ 333 pp
for 4-7 persons	€ 255 pp

 

Price includes

• 3 nights accommodation in a 3* hotel (in DBL room)

• 3 buffetbreakfast

• 1 dinner and Tokay wine tasting in a typical Tokay tuff cellar

• walking city tours of Košice and Prešov

• transportation on the 2^nd - 3^rd days

 

Optional supplements:

single supplement	€ 35 pp
dinner on the first day	€ 16 pp
suppl. for a 4* hotel	€ 49 pp

 

 

About visited places

 

Košice

Košice became a free royal town in 1342 and enjoyed the same rights as Buda, then the capital of Hungary. It has been an important centre of trade and crafts for centuries and the rich and famous history of the town reflects in the wealth of well-preserved sights. The most important of them are: The Gothic St. Elisabeth`s Cathedral, Gothic Chapel of St. Michael, The Urban`s Tower, The Town Hall, Nicholas` Prison, Pseudogothic Jakab Palace, The Classicist Csaky-Dessewffy Palace, The New-Baroque Andrassy Palace, remains of the town forification, Hangman`s and Mlynska bastions.

 

 

Prešov

Prešov belongs to the leading centres of the Slovak Republic. At present it is the third biggest town in Slovakia, following Bratislava and Košice. The first written record about Prešov dates back to the year 1247. In 1299 king Andrew III. confered to Prešov royal town privileges. The town Prešov offers to its visitors numerous historical monuments. Ones of them are: The Gothic Cathedral of St. Nicholas, The Baroque Church of St. John the Baptist (where is stored the replica of the Turin Canvas), Evangelical Church, Neptune Fountain, Orthodox Synagogue, Museum of Wine and many others...

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