There are regions that we ride through without them getting stuck in our memories in some outstanding way or without us longing for returning to them. And there are others, such as Slovacko, which attract us as if they had an unknown magic power. We sink into a wonderful fascination by people, nature and landscape and we know that we will wish to return to those places once more, because our hearts found liking for them. Someday, then, we will find an
old yellowed booklet, a tourist guide from past years, and we will find out that not only we have come under, but that already our forefathers had the same feelings. Wewill also learn that the region has its specific features and that it has been visited ever before for its inner and outer values, for its genius locci. And so we need not change anything on its localisation. Slovacko is just like that; a picturesque border-line area between two historical territories of Moravia and Slowakia, a region the natural centre line of which is formed by the fruitful ravine along the river Morava that is rimmed by greenish shrubs of vine, golden becoming cornfields and appletree orchards, spreading from the Napajedla Gate to the border of Austria.
The region borders on the
"Valasske Kingdom", the home of slivovitz, in the North, of the granary of Moravia, Hana, and further on the area around Brno and the Moravian central Dyje area in the Northwest and in the West. It also borders on Austria in the South and, in the East, it is divided by the edge of
the White Carpats, with the monumental peak of Javorina at the head, from Slowakia.
In the Southwest, there spreads the Lednice-Valtice areal, an important tourist region with romantic chateaus and a system of stretches of water in the middle of an extensive park, once built up by the Liechtenstein family. Still farther we may see the outline of the mysterious, as if from the depth of ages rising
Palava, under the slopes of which the primeval hunter had lived. In the lower valley of the largest Moravian river stretch the fertile plains of Moravian Slovakia (Moravske Slovacko) framed by wine-bearing slopes of the White Carpathians. Indeed, it is the blessed eden-like landscape full of charm, itself a half-finished song, straddling the recent border between Southeast Czechia and West Slovakia, a region producng
wine full of sparkling energy and mellow flavour. 
The poetry of the landscape would not be complete without the orchards, the vineyards and the rather mysterious areas of wine cellars. They are the culminating culinary points of the fertile countryside and you cannot pass them without tasting the fruits of the sun. Or you would rather prefer to spend a lazy afternoon by a lake. Maybe you will choose winter when the new wine gets its first maturity and the vineyards are cushioned down with snow.
Do not miss this unique opportunity to come back into a lucid dream of your childhood. You will see monuments, but, above all, you will meet people full of heart. Get to know the taste of spontaneity, the spark of joy kindled with music and warmed with wine.... Who, in good will, knocks on the door of this homeland, is bound to get the response of truth and immorality.
The moderate climate zone, in which the region of Slovacko lies, is suitable for vine. Vintages form the face of this area and the wine-vaults are the studios of the purest of all
folk artists -- the vinters. Slovacko is also, among other things, a
region of Wine. Its consumation is more interesting and it becomes a ceremony, if it takes place in a home-vault, in the areas of village wine-vaults or in the unique town or curch vaults.
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