The Košice Experience 2024
hi there interestingly my most successful videos are from places where I haven't been before which I actually don't know and where I am relatively clueless I don't know why that is but I can tell you currently I am in exactly this situation I've been to this country twice before but both of the time S I only spent a few hours here and I've only been to the western part of it this city here is in the eastern part it is about 80 kilomet from the Ukrainian border and can you guess what country it is the name of this city is kit and it's the second largest city in Slovakia just arrived I'm on a tour here with my family and we only spent one night in this city so just going to walk around and I think it's always a good thing to start at the main Church let's see if it's still open it's already quite late in the afternoon after 5:00 but let's take a chance the whole old town is centered around its main square and in the middle of it there is this Cathedral and some smaller buildings like the chapel over there but I think it's not possible to go inside here but that's from the outside as well and a nice park see cap M let's see no it's closed but let me show you this park here and let's try to get inside the main Cathedral he that looks better and it's still open for [Music] [Music] [Music] building over there which is by the way right opposite of the cathedral I think it is a theater or an opera house as I said I am really clueless all I did before coming here was to read the Wikipedia article and that's about it [Music] so let's see the entrance probably is on the other side so we came here today left Lake baton in the morning and it was quite a long drive about 5 hours 450 km something like that oh yeah it's the opera house and as you can see the old town is really nice here so it's really amazing to see all these buildings from the well I would say it's mainly from the Austrian Hungarian monarchy period uh on the other hand when we came here um the outskirts of the city are not really that beautiful and this is really amazing so the outskirts are not that beautiful so this is a nice Arch Deco Hotel with Lavia and another what is that is that a church must be bory [Music] completely different style from the main Cathedral something like barro or even Renaissance and much darker another church on the main square but this one I heard but it it has just been closed so it's really a little bit too late for this sseeing type of activity as amazing as this main square is I also want to check out some other places so I'm trying to find some interesting side streets [Music] this could be one oh yeaha UL probably something like post office Street [Music] this is still post office Street and you can turn left or right I think I'm going to turn left so this is a street that runs in parallel to the main [Music] square and you can see it's not all of the houses are that greatly renovated but still it's quite good the old town is really impressive but it seems to be relatively small for a city of more than 200,000 inhabitants but most of these inhabitants actually live in these panel houses in the outskirts and one thing that I noticed is that there are lots of people walking around and I think many of them are homeless people or uh really live in very bad conditions and they are they are checking the contents of the garbage bins to maybe find something to make some money [Music] oh the sound is not from the church Tower but from these bells here in the park see right next to this fountain [Music] okay the bells have stopped and The Fountains start once [Music] again another try to make a place look more interesting by putting up these umbrellas since this in few other places including sentre uh what else timw yes okay and again getting back to the main Square so one famous uh quarter or better let me better say INF famous quarter is named lunic 9 which is supposed to be one of the worst slums in Europe so they planned this quarter in the 1970s for around 3,000 people and the strange idea that these Communists had was to settle people from the ethnic minority of the Roma together with people from the military and the police isn't that interesting so what oh that's nice what's behind the idea is that they thought that these minority people were not that well integrated might be true and obviously on the other hand policemen and soldiers military people are probably quite well integrated So the plan was to achieve a better integration of these people and as you might imagine this was not really a success currently as I said it's supposed to be the worst slum in Europe and there are around 6,000 people living there instead of 3,000 obviously not under the best conditions as you can imagine and as I said I don't have the time to go there maybe I don't even have the courage to go there but you can watch videos from other guys who have been there and made some quite interesting documentations lexith shop so the name of this slum is lunic 9 I think they have been named after some Soviet moon landing no not moon landing but some lunar Mission so that's the other side of Kit which I will not visit I will stay in the old town with I mean there are really plenty of restaurants here pups cafes and we will check out one or two of them for sure later this evening [Music] may want [Music] [Music] decided to do some more filming before we leave that's an interesting building it is the Phil Harmony right now but it has an interesting history which I to be honest don't fully understand uh it used to be a synagogue that has been built in the early 20th century or maybe late 19th century as I said it's complicated and then after World War II it has to be redesigned in a in a communist realist style or something like that so here you can see part of the old synagogue oh it's not really not really a beautiful building but with an interesting history okay so let's go back to the main Square I'm a little bit outside here and that's what it looks not so exciting but not really bad just filming some some random houses here to give you an impression of the variety different AR architecture Styles you can find here [Music] yeah yeah just noticed that it's possible to go on top of this tower for an entrance fee of €3 first part of the stair was really narrow but it looks like it's getting at least a little bit better with these stairs they have been used a lot is this the top already not sure but and absolutely amazing view [Music] probably not allowed to ring it yeah seems to be the top okay so they got these little windows so you can film or take a photograph think I'm going to use my stick to put the camera out of the window which is probably not really allowed [Music] so when you look at the Horizon you see these massive blocks on these Hills surrounding the city and this is where most of the people actually live that's it from kit a nice and friendly city with a beautiful Old Town many restaurants and bars so maybe not everybody would like to travel 500 km and more to get here maybe not everybody would like to stay multiple nights but if it's on the way and you're traveling around in this region I would say it's really a good stop tomorrow we are going to keep on traveling we are going to a different country where I have never been before and I'm quite excited about that because it's the only country which actually neighbors my home country where I have never been before little hint it's to the north of here
2024-08-26 06:09
