1989–2007 The border stops being a wallHranica prestáva byť múrom

After November 1989 the frontier a few kilometres north stopped being a guarded line and became a road again. Poles came over to the castle and the shops; Slovaks went to the market at Nowy Targ, which plenty of families had been doing quietly for decades anyway. On 21 December 2007 Slovakia and Poland both entered the Schengen area and the border checks were removed altogether. You can now drive from the castle that guarded this frontier into Poland without stopping — a strange thing to be able to say about a place built to make people stop.Po novembri 1989 prestala byť hranica pár kilometrov na sever stráženou čiarou a stala sa zase cestou. Poliaci chodili na hrad aj do obchodov, Slováci na trh do Nowého Targu — čo mnohé rodiny potichu robili aj predtým. 21. decembra 2007 vstúpilo Slovensko aj Poľsko do schengenského priestoru a hraničné kontroly zmizli úplne. Od hradu, ktorý túto hranicu strážil, sa dnes dá prejsť do Poľska bez zastavenia — čudná veta o mieste, ktoré postavili práve preto, aby ľudí zastavovalo.