Poprad

Poprad city belongs to the most important economic and cultural centres of the Spiš region. It is also an attractive tourist centre. Poprad arose as a result of unification of four small villages that were independent until the 20-th century: Spišská Sobota, Veľká, Stráže pod Tatrami and Matejovce. It is situated in a picturesque landscape, very close to the slopes of the High Tatras mountains. Each from the above-mentioned villages has a renaissance bell-tower. The centre of the Poprad city was very nicely renovated a few years ago. A bell-tower, an old gothic church with a lot of wall paintings and a classicistic Evangelic church with a park are the most dominant objects in the centre.