Vlkolínec is a picturesque village part of the district town of Ružomberok in the Žilina Region in Slovakia
The first mention of Vlkolinec dates back to 1376, and in 1882 the village was administratively included in the neighboring city of Ružomberok.
The place, which has been preserved in its original form is one of 10 Slovak villages that enjoy preserved village status .The village is unique in Central Europe, the houses are made of wood and painted with patterns and pictures. No roads were built and the houses had no electricity or water supply.
Because of its extraordinary, untouched settlement with 40 original, inhabited wooden houses, it was added to the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List in 1993.A bell tower, a well, a brick church and a school can be found in the center of the village amidst traditional buildings.
Access : Coordinates: 49.041667, 19.275 /
Highlights :
- Since 1977, the village has been included in the list of ten ethnographic villages – museums of folk architecture of Slovakia, and since 1993, as its most complete example, it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List according to criteria iv and v.
- In houses No. 16 and No. 17 there is a museum exhibition demonstrating traditional objects of peasant life and field work.
- Top sights in Vlkolínec : The village belfry, a log building on a rectangular plan from 1770 / The Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, a single-nave late classicist building with a polygonal end of the presbytery and a tower forming part of its mass from 1875.
Go next : Rużomberk , a town in northern Slovakia, in the historical Liptov region.
