Liptovský Mikuláš

Liptovský Mikuláš is a city in the north of the Slovakia, on banks of the Váh. It is in the Région of Žilina, on Liptovská kotlina between the Basses Tatras and the High Tatras. Liptovský Mikuláš is also known like cultural city and where one found Guilde S.

History

The town of Mikuláš was mentioned for the first time in the acts of the king Ladislav IV in 1286. The first writing mentions the church of Saint Nicolas (sväty Mikulas into Slovak) which will become the aggregate on which the city will be based of the 1299.

Town of craft industry par excellence, it sheltered many guilds, oldest, that of the shoe-makers, settled in 1508, but also the guild of the blacksmiths, the tailors, the trappers, the hatters, and the butchers. The city is also known the Slovak ones, for its castle where Juraj Janosik was imprisoned and judged.

In 2003 was signed a Pacte of friendship with the town of Annecy.

Tourism

Ideally located, the city is a tourist center.

Personalities

Jozef Božetech Klemens (1817), painter
Ján Levoslav Bleated (1843), type-setter
Samuel Fischer (1859), editor
Aurel Stodola (1859), physicist
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), engineer, inventive
Martin Rázus (1888, Vrbica), author, politicking
Ivan Stodola poet, playwright, doctor
Janko Kráľ, poet
Janko Alexy (1894), painter
Koloman Sokol (1902), painter
Ladislav Hanus (1907), philosopher, theologist, author
Michal Martikan (1979), sporting
Milan Jurčina (1983), player of Hockey

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