On 15 May 2015, the ISOC
organized a long weekend for their students. They visited the historic
sites in Svidník and Košice. First, they visited the Military Historical
Institute in Svidník, which was in the past the Dukla Museum. The exposition
highlights military and strategic importance of the Dukla mountain during
World Wars and show the development and progress of World War I in frontier
areas of the Eastern Slovakia. The students could see the authentic pictures
of battles, personal relics, various types of weapons as well as other
battlefield findings.
The tour continued to Košice, which is the cultural
and economic centre of eastern Slovakia. Here, they visited the Gothic
Cathedral St. Elisabeth Cathedral, which is the biggest church in Slovakia
and also several churches and Jewish synagogues.
The long weekend is a part of programme within
ISOC course, organized by AFA with the aim to enrich the course, and to
show the students the most interesting parts of Slovakia.
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