In the shadow of the High Tatras and served by a direct flight from Luton, the towns of the Spiss region were settled by Germans after the Mongols departed. Trade and mining led to imposing Renaissance houses on gothic foundations. Decline set in with the discovery of America and continued until very recently. Last year returning émigrés started a wonderful music festival in Levoca, once the region's capital, with concerts in the neo-rococo theatre and in the magnificent Church of St James with the highest gothic altar in the world, carved by the brilliant local master Paul whose work we see in several churches and his house, now a museum. Our comfortable hotel is a recently converted Renaissance house on the town square.
Cost: £880 To include return scheduled flights - 5 nights bed-and-breakfast accommodation in twin-bedded rooms with private facilities - good tickets for all concerts - transfers and excursions -
5 lunches. Single supplement £80 Deposit £300. (1 October : overnight at a pleasant airport hotel - special room rate £75)
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08.50 departure of SkyEurope scheduled flight from Luton to Poprad. Short coach journey to Levoca and the hotel. Introductory walk, reception and first concert
19.00 Vienna Piano Trio Haydn, Schumann, Mendelssohn
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Church of St James, master Paul house, town walls and private houses
15.00 Petronel Malan Piano recital including Haydn and Mendelssohn
19.00 Vienna Piano Trio Haydn, Rubinstein, Mendelssohn
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Spiss Castle, Cathedral and Chapter
15.00 Budapest Baryton Trio Haydn
19.00 Slovak Chamber Orchestra with Petronel Malan Mendelssohn etc
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15.00 Zemlinsky Quartet Dvorak, Mendelssohn
19.00 Stamic Quartet Haydn, Mendelssohn, Smetana
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Wooden Protestant church at Kezmarok and into the mountains
19.00 Stamic and Zemlinsky Quartets Brahms Sextet, Mendelssohn Octet
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Coach to Poprad Airport - via Church of St George at Spisska Sobota - for scheduled SkyEurope flight dep 13.05 arr Luton 14.35.
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