Kosice, Slovakia News

Kosice is not simply one city. Like any Central European metropolis worthy of the name, many urban incarnations coexist cheek and jowl in this charming capital of eastern Slovakia.

AS PART of the European Capital of Culture 2013 project, the Days of Slovak Culture began in the French city of Marseilles.

Ives, 13, received a globe from his grandparents when he was a first-grader studying in Kosice, Slovakia, where father Rob Ives worked as a manager at a U.S. Steel plant.

INFORMATION and communication technology is one of the fastest developing sectors within the EU, and Slovakia is no exception.

IT SEEMS that after a meagre winter season, a wave of Slovak drama is heading to the capital: after the Slovak National Theatre's production of Oresteia, and alternative theatre Stoka's staging of Uncertain Ground, the Nova drama / New Drama festival will offer eight plays, all with English subtitles, by several Slovak theatres, all of which will ... (more)

The Communist Party of Slovakia held a protest against capitalism on May 1 in Kosice.

This fragment of square in Spisske Vlachy, a small town close to the Spissky Hrad and not far from Kosice is a good sample of how many of the country towns in Slovakia looks like.

The magnificent Gothic Cathedral of St Elizabeth in Koice, Slovak Republic, became the glowing centrepiece of the city's Opening Ceremony celebrations for its year as European Capital of Culture in a spectacular lighting scheme featuring Robe and Anolis LED fixtures.

People could easily dismiss the mind-boggling photographic work of Lucia Scerankova, a photographer born in Kosice, Slovak Republic, and living in both Prague and London, to Photoshop, but that would be a huge oversight.

THE ANNUAL Celebration of Kosice Day has been extended this year: a series of events spread over nine days will offer folklore, history, gastronomy, technology, sports, culture and more.

A BIG move last year to a new location requiring considerable reconstruction caused the Austrian Cultural Forum in Bratislava to make changes to its "modus operandi". But now that it is settling into its new digs, the forum is ready to resume its rich cultural exchange programme.