The open borders of Europe not only allow you to travel with ease, without thinking about having a visa to a particular country but also allow you to get to places that were clearly previously accessible only to selected border guards.
As an illustrative example, we can cite the Shomoshka castle, in which there is a village of the same name: the state border runs exactly between them; thus, the village and the parking lot for visitors to the castle are still in Hungary, while the castle itself belongs to Slovakia.
Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it was built using local basalt rocks in the form of pillars. This castle on the Slovak-Hungarian border is under state protection and is considered one of the most picturesque castles in Slovakia.
You can climb to Shomoshka along with one of the specially designed tourist paths that run through the protected area. Following them, you can see the most interesting natural objects in the vicinity of the castle. For example, on the way to the rock, you will come across Shomosh ponds and an unusual basalt formation called the Stone Waterfall. The shape of this object really resembles streams of water frozen in stone.
The Shomoshka citadel was born somewhere at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. She often changed owners and, until the Turkish invasion of 1573, underwent constant changes (I want to believe - for the better).
After the liberation in 1596, the leapfrog with the owners continued until, after the heroic but failed political action of Ferenc II Rakoczi, the Austrian authorities decided to destroy Somoshka.
It was possible to avoid complete demolition, but time itself took the ruins left to themselves. The last more or less complete tower burned down as a result of a lightning strike in 1826. Only in Soviet times, in 1972, some conservation and reconstruction work was carried out.
It is curious - despite the fact that the castle is Slovak, you can get to it by car only from Hungary. Only narrow paths lead to it on Slovak soil.
As already mentioned, there is a village of the same name at the foot of the rock that shelters the castle, but there is nothing remarkable about it.
Coordinates of the castle - 48.171736, 19.857236
Wow! I'm glad you took the time to share this post and information about the castle. Thanks!
Thank you for reminding me of my blog and encouraging me to write about travel)
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Hiya, @choogirl here, just swinging by to let you know that this post made it into our Top 3 in Your post has been manually curated by the @pinmapple team. If you like what we're doing, please drop by to check out all the rest of today's great posts and consider supporting other authors like yourself and us so we can keep the project going!Thanks for sharing the pictures and the story of this castle. It definitely made the list of things to see it we travel through the area 😀
And thank you for taking the time to tell this story) Be sure to visit this place, it is stunning in its scope. I'm always a little shocked when I think about how it was built centuries ago