Tisovec: Nature, Cog Railway and History

Tisovec offers a direct way to experience nature and the landscape. The Hradová educational trail leads from the town of Tisovec across the southern slopes to the Hradová ridge. It has nine stations; the first information point is located next to the building of the secondary vocational school in Tisovec. The educational trail is intended exclusively for pedestrians.

Nature

When planning your own visit, the route and the information provided can be considered separately. Hradová is a 127.47-hectare national nature reserve and part of the Tisovec Karst, a Natura 2000 site of European importance. At 887 metres, Tisovská Hradová is a prominent landscape feature in the surroundings of Tisovec: an extensive mountain of limestone rock with numerous caves.

Lesný skanzen Tisovec comprises a covered outdoor area that can be used, for example, as a reading room in nature, as well as interactive features: barefoot and other sensory trails, animal representations, nesting boxes, a children’s playground, a pond with a bridge and a small climbing wall.

Lesný skanzen Tisovec is also a recreational area along the Voniaca nature trail, where visitors can spend their free time and get to know the surrounding forests and their inhabitants in Muránska planina National Park.

Culture

The Tisovec Town Museum is located at two sites and offers three permanent exhibitions. The exhibition in Vladimír Clementis’s birthplace includes his personal belongings, pipes, awards, identity documents and books.

The Cog Railway Museum next to the railway station building in Tisovec presents the history and rescue history of the cog railway line running from Tisovec via Zbojská to Pohronská Polhora. On steam train operating days, it is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., during the steam train’s stay at the station; on other days, visits are possible by prior arrangement, at least one day in advance.

On display are a diorama of a transport office, original cog railway equipment, models of tunnel construction, signalling equipment, a locomotive tachometer and railway uniforms. The buildings and transport technology provide different perspectives on the history of the town.

History

Tisovec’s designated historic sights include the Neoclassical town hall from 1796 and a Neoclassical Protestant church dating from 1825 to 1832.

The Hámor district is home to a Roman Catholic church built in the Empire style in 1845. The listed house of Štefan Marko Daxner dates from 1872.

The cog railway line runs from Tisovec to Pohronská Polhora. Tisovec is also situated on the themed Gotická cesta route, which runs from Spiš to Malohont.

Tisovská Hradová was once home to a castle consisting of two separate, independent fortifications.

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More destinations

Štrkovec, Klenovec, Rimavská Seč, Kesovce, Dubovec, Hrachovo, Bottovo, Gemerský Jablonec

To the higher-level travel overview: Okres Rimavská Sobota.