We just got back to our room, it's close to midnight and we're both exhausted and ready for sleep after a long day out exploring. We woke early this morning to catch local transportation that brings us up to Budatin Castle. This building is yet another historic landmark to Slovak culture, this castle was built in the 13th century to guard off intruders and had gone from Gothic theme finally to the Renaissance and was used for many different purposes of housing to elite members of society of the past. We went through all 3 exhibitions amongst the castle land which contains over 100 000 artifacts from the fields of natural sciences, archeology, history and ethnography. But we paid more close attention to the Tinker Art Exhibition seeing as it is the largest of its kind in the world and documents the past and present use of the tinker craft in the folklore history. It was amazing to be able to walk through the exhibition of over 2,500 artifacts and see how it started and how it all turned into what it is today, a huge part of Slovak culture. By the time we got back to Zilina, the evening had arrived and we strolled back into Marianske Namestie for a quick bite to eat and some local desert at a café along the main square.
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