Slovenský raj National Park extends across Spišská Nová Ves District and is the only large-scale protected area there. Slovenský raj has 268.2 km of marked hiking trails as well as 13 educational trails with a total length of almost 89 km.
Those who choose Spišská Nová Ves District as a holiday destination may want to book a hotel for their stay.
Nature
Slovenský raj and its buffer zone have 110 km of marked cycling routes; 65 km run through the national park and 45 km through its buffer zone.
The cycling route around Slovenský raj forms an approximately 74 km loop starting and ending in Spišská Nová Ves. It begins and ends at the bus station, railway station and car park in Spišská Nová Ves.
The Spišská cyklomagistrála is a marked cycling route connecting Hrabušice, Spišské Tomášovce, Smižany, Spišská Nová Ves and Markušovce, then continuing towards Spišský hrad and Kežmarok. The Hnilecká cyklomagistrála runs through Mlynky, Hnilec and Nálepkovo.
Culture
Spišská Nová Ves District has more than 1,560 registered movable and immovable cultural monuments as well as three heritage zones: Spišská Nová Ves, Spišské Vlachy and Markušovce. In Kláštorisko in Slovenský raj are the restored remains of a Carthusian monastery from the 14th century.
The Spiš Museum has been located since 1954 in a historic building of the former medieval town hall in Spišská Nová Ves and has branches with exhibitions in Markušovce and Smižany. The museum’s natural history exhibition focuses on plants and animals that can be encountered while walking in this region.
The permanent exhibition of the ethnographic museum in Smižany presents the folk culture of central and lower Spiš from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Its main focuses are textiles, clothing and their production.
Visitors can climb 155 steps to the 87-metre-high tower of the Roman Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and enjoy views of Spišská Nová Ves, the surrounding area and the panorama of the High Tatras.
The Spiš Artists Gallery is located in a historic burgher’s house in the centre of Spišská Nová Ves, whose history dates back to the second half of the 16th century, and presents 1,898 works of art in three permanent exhibitions.
The Railway Exposition in Spišská Nová Ves offers a model railway, an exhibition of train models, opportunities to try operating a locomotive and performing the duties of a train dispatcher, a railway communications system, as well as visual materials and historical memories of the Košice–Bohumín railway line.
The railway blast furnace in Krompachy, known as “maša”, dates from 1831. Spišské divadlo has operated under this name in the Reduta building since 1992 and has a history spanning more than 40 years.
Events
Spišský trh is a four-day event based on the market tradition of Spišská Nová Ves dating back to 6 December 1380. Spišský trh includes fairground food as part of the event experience.
Dni mesta Spišská Nová Ves takes place annually at the end of summer and includes a market of traditional crafts with almost 100 stalls.
Other places: Markušovce, Harichovce, Slovinky, Letanovce, Jamnik, Spisske Tomasovce, Odorín, Spisska Nova Ves, Betlanovce, Poráč, Arnutovce, Krompachy, Spišské Vlachy, Mlynky, Matejovce Nad Hornádom, Hnilec, Hrabusice, Smizany, Hnilcik, Rudnany, Teplička.
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