Horné Považie

Horné Považie (Upper Váh region) is a region in Central Slovakia.

Cities

 * – The biggest city in the region by far with a picturesque centre and many transport options.
 * – A small town boasting a nice castle.
 * – A place with a lot of history that lost its old centre to modernisation, but with beautiful surroundings.
 * – An industrial town situated right on the Váh river.
 * – A quaint town in the middle of the beautiful Rajčianka valley.

Other destinations

 * – This tiny village of 200 residents is famous for its beautiful decoratively painted wooden houses.
 * – A village in Javorníky mountains.

Get in
The D1 motorway and the main railway line connecting west and east Slovakia run along the Váh river and to all the major towns in this region.

Public transport timetables are available at ubian.sk.

By train
The mainline (Bratislava)-Puchov-Žilina-(Košice) has a high frequency connection, with fast trains almost hourly, and local trains approximately every two hours. There are also a couple local services (Žilina-Rajec and Púchov-Horní Lideč, CZ).

By bus
Buses run to fill up the gaps in the train schedule or where the trains do not go. Beware that service to villages can be very limited on weekends. In general, the frequency is highest to the city in the early morning, and from the city in the afternoon, which is great for the commuter but less so for the city dweller wanting to go on a daytrip into the countryside. After 20:00 service can be very sporadic or nonexistent outside the cities.

On foot
Perhaps one of the best ways to explore this mountainous region is via one of the many hiking trails that criss-cross throughout the forest. The trails in this part of Slovakia are open year-round. An online interactive hiking map is available at OsmAnd or Mapy.cz.

See
Castles:

Castle ruins:

Go next

 * Stredné Považie