Považie · above the village of BeckovPovažie · nad obcou Beckov

Beckov CastleHrad Beckov

Few ruins in Slovakia are staged as theatrically as Beckov. The castle stands on a sheer limestone crag that erupts out of flat ground, with the village pressed right against its foot — walk out of a garden gate below and the walls are directly overhead. It was rebuilt into a lordly residence by Stibor of Stiboricz, burnt out in the eighteenth century, and has been a consolidated ruin you can walk ever since.Máloktorá zrúcanina na Slovensku je zinscenovaná tak divadelne ako Beckov. Hrad stojí na kolmom vápencovom brale, ktoré vyráža z rovnej zeme, s dedinou pritlačenou tesne k jeho päte — vyjdete z dvora pod skalou a múry máte priamo nad hlavou. Na panské sídlo ho prestaval Stibor zo Stiboríc, v osemnástom storočí vyhorel a odvtedy je zakonzervovanou zrúcaninou, ktorou sa dá prejsť.