Devin Castle and Vineyards ★ 4.5
Famous for: Devinsky Ribezliak currant wine, ECK vineyard tasting
Devin Castle ruins above the Danube-Morava confluence with the riverbank Slovak food district and ECK Restaurant tastings on the vineyard slope above.
Food destinations within easy reach of Bratislava, worth the early start.
Food destinations within easy reach of Bratislava. worth the train, the rental car or the early start.
Famous for: Devinsky Ribezliak currant wine, ECK vineyard tasting
Devin Castle ruins above the Danube-Morava confluence with the riverbank Slovak food district and ECK Restaurant tastings on the vineyard slope above.
Famous for: Modra ceramics, Small Carpathian wine, Vinohrady harvest
Modra is a Free Royal town since 1607 in the Small Carpathian wine belt, with cellars open weekends, ceramics workshops and the September harvest festival.
Famous for: Pezinok Wine Cellars February event, historic wine museum
Pezinok has been a Slovak Free Royal wine town since the 17th century, with cellars and courtyards open for tasting and a wine museum in the chateau cellar.
Famous for: Akademia beer hall, Slovak pastry, Carpathian wine
Trnava is Slovakia's Little Rome with more churches than the Old Town's blocks, plus Akademia beer hall, Babovka pastry and Trnavska Viecha Carpathian wine.
Famous for: ARTE Restaurant ten-course tasting, Palffy Manor wine cellar
Svaty Jur is the smallest Slovak Free Royal wine town in the Small Carpathians, anchored by ARTE Restaurant inside Palffy Manor with its ten-course tasting.