Snowy peaks, castle ruins, log-house villages and a capital on the Danube, often only a few hours apart by train.
in the world for cars made per person. Four carmakers build around one million cars a year here.
Folk traditions are not only for museums. You still see them at festivals, weddings and on Christmas Eve.
Colours and embroidery once showed your village. This one is from Brezová, near Senica.
Dark log houses covered in white geometric patterns.
A shepherd's flute up to 2 m long, on UNESCO's heritage list.
Oplátky wafers with honey, cabbage soup, then carp and potato salad.
Potatoes, sheep's cheese, cabbage and a lot of patience.
National dish
Potato dumplings with bryndza, a soft sheep's cheese, and crispy bacon.
With smoked sausage and mushrooms. The star of Christmas Eve.
Thin and soft. Savoury with goose and red cabbage, or sweet with poppy seeds.
Paper-thin dough rolled around apples, poppy seeds or sweet cheese.
Local tip: Skalický trdelník, a sweet pastry baked on a rolling spit, comes from Skalica, 20 km from Senica. It has EU-protected status.
A town in western Slovakia, in the Trnava Region.
Small enough to know everyone. Big enough to always have something going on.
Community · Christmas visit to local seniors
Freshers' welcome
Town park
Sport
House of Culture
Students' Day at the town hall
Chapter III · Our schoolManagement and law: how a company is run.
Students run their own company for a full school year.
Plus accounting in Omega, software real firms use.
How to win customers and keep them.
Two foreign languages and real business talks.
Programming, robotics, web, graphics, video and a Cisco lab.
Pitching a product or an idea to a real audience.
Projects, workshops and competitions in teams.
Our student company. Students issue shares, write a business plan, sell real products for real money and pay dividends at the end of the year.
Some lessons only happen when you leave home.
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