WHEN heading from the northern Slovak town of Ružomberok north to the village of Oravský Podzámok through Dolný Kubín, one can see a large castle rising above the Orava river. The Orava Castle, also ...

Orava Castle, Orava castle is situated on a very high rock in the Orava region of Slovakia, right above the Orava River. It is located so high that you can spot it from quite some distance ...

AT LEAST 210,000 visitors came to Orava Castle in Oravský Pod-zámok last year, about 22,000 more than in 2007. Slovaks made up about 62 percent of the visitors. The largest number of foreign visitors ...

His castle has always been fictional, and in the novel, ... That’s not to say there isn’t a link between Dracula and Orava Castle, as the 1922 horror Nosferatu was filmed here.