Outdoor Pitstop
The story
Audio tour · Beckov
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You're standing at Beckov Castle, a ruin perched on a steep rock above the Váh River in western Slovakia. Take a look up at that cliff. It did much of the defending on its own. Thanks to those high stone walls and sheer rock faces, Beckov is one of the few castles that held out against Tatar and Turkish attacks. In 1599 it saw off a Tatar siege.
Read and hear the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
