Top Kosice Culture

This self-guided walking tour turns Košice's old town into a story you follow at your own pace. Ten stops trace the city's layered history along Hlavná — from Slovakia's largest cathedral and its freestanding bell tower to a musical fountain, a neo-Baroque theatre, a lane of craft workshops and a gun tower from the medieval defences. Everything runs from your smartphone. There is no app to download and no physical guide to keep up with: at each stop you get a short audio story, the same account in writing if you prefer to read, an interactive quiz, and map directions to the next location. Start whenever you like, pause for a coffee, linger where you want and move on when you're ready. No group, no fixed departure time — just you, the route and about an hour of easy walking. Audio and text are available in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

This tour is built around a single, extraordinary story of Ľudovít Feld, a Košice-born artist who survived Auschwitz by working as Josef Mengele’s personal painter. Our journey begins at the cultural center dedicated to Feld, where his art and life provide an immediate, deeply personal, and profoundly unique connection to the Holocaust. From this powerful and singular starting point, the tour expands, but its thematic core of art and memory remains. We visit Bardejov, where the UNESCO-listed Jewish Suburbia serves as a testament to a community's history, and Prešov, with its celebrated Judaica collection. Finally, the cinematic connection in Sabinov—the setting for the Oscar-winning film The Shop on Main Street—provides a modern artistic lens through which to view historical events. This fusion of a single artist’s struggle with broader historical and cultural landmarks makes for a truly unparalleled experience.