Orava Castle

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Contributor Tomáš Golej did a phenomenal job using natural lighting to create this beautiful drone video of one of the most famous castles in Slovakia. Orava Castle is a 13th century landmark near the town of Oravský Podzámok in the northern part of the country. Situated in the Western Carpathian Mountains (which go by different name depending on the country), the castle was built on the site of a fort used to contain the first Mongolian invasion of what was then Hungary in the mid-13th century.

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Orava Castle (Slovak: Oravský hrad, German: Arwaburg, Hungarian: Árva vára), is situated on a high rock above Orava river in the village of Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia. The castle was built in the Kingdom of Hungary in the thirteenth century. Many scenes of the 1922 film Nosferatu were filmed here, the castle representing Count Orlok's Transylvanian castle. Orava Castle stands on the site of an old wooden fortification, built after the Mongol invasion of Hungary of 1241. Its history since then reveals a familiar pattern of construction, destruction, reconstruction, fire, various ownerships and territorial squabbles. The original design was in Romanesque and Gothic style; it was later reconstructed as a Renaissance and Neo-Gothic structure, hugging the shape of the 520-metre spur on which it perches.