About this route
Route overview
The largest medieval castle in Central Europe and the wooden altar by Master Paul of Levoca in one comfortable day with a private chauffeur — Spis Castle (Spissky hrad), a 12th-century Gothic-Romanesque fortress on a limestone hill (4 ha of grounds, THE LARGEST castle in Central Europe), and Levoca, the medieval free town of the Spis Saxons. Both sites were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1993 together with Spisske Podhradie and Spisska Kapitula. Standard plan: 7:30 hotel pickup in Bratislava, 11:30 arrival at Spis Castle (380 km via the D1 motorway, about 4 h). Castle tour 2 h: Gothic courtyard, defensive tower with views of the High and Low Tatras, archaeological exposition (Stone, Bronze and Iron ages and the Slavic period from the 7th century), castle chapel with a Gothic altar, 12th-century Romanesque palatium. 14:00 transfer to Levoca (15 km, 20 min). UNESCO Levoca Old Town tour 1.5 h: Church of St James (14th-century Gothic with the main wooden altar 18.62 m high — THE TALLEST Gothic wooden altar in the world, carved by Master Paul of Levoca in 1517 from polychrome linden), Renaissance Town Hall (15th century with fresco fragments), Chapel of St John the Baptist. 16:00 return to Spisske Podhradie (15 km, 20 min) — see the panorama of Spis Castle from the road (the most famous photographic view of the castle). 17:30 return to Bratislava (380 km, about 4 h). EUR 780 Mercedes V-Class (comfortable space for a 4-hour one-way journey). Service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at BTS.