Svidník

I decided that in my other contribution I will be writing about my hometown which is called Svidník.
It is a town in eastern Slovakia and it is located in the Ondava Highland, at the confluence of Ondava and Ladomírka rivers, located around 20 km from the Dukla Pass (Polish border) and around 55 km north-east of Prešov. It has a population of 12,384 (2005).
From the history I want to commemorate that Svidník arose in 1944 by merger of formerly two independent municipalities of Nižný (eng: Lower) Svidník and Vyšný (eng: Upper) Svidník. In Svidník we have a lot of historical and cultural facilities as a Gallery of Dezider Milly, open air museum where are beautiful, wooden houses and old wooden church, as well in Svidník we have two museums (first is Military museum where we can find things from the first and second World War and the second museum is called Museum of Ukrainian-Rusyn culture). A lot of statues which are placed about the town commemorate old history of this town. Too in Svidník there are 5 elementary schools and seven secondary schools. For young people there is a cinema, disco bars, coffee bars, swimming pool and many other places where they can spent their free time.
I think that Svidník is beautiful town with many cultural facilities, good and friendly people and many natural beauties which are interesting for many people. I am very happy that I was born in this little and wonderful town and that I spend my childhood here :)