About the region

City of Svidník

Svidník lies at an altitude of 230 m above sea level, in the northern part of the Ondawskie Foothills, at the mouth of the Ladomírk River to the Ondawa River. In 2011, the population of the city was 11,721 people, area - 20.20 km².
A national road No. 21 (international E371) runs from Svidník from the border crossing Vyšný Komárnik - Barwinek to Prešov. The city has a beltway in the standard of a single carriageway expressway, which led the transit traffic from the city center. With route no. 73, the national road No. 77, running from Bardejov, joins the city. The city has a civil airport with a domestic airport, open from 1990.
Currently, the city of Svidník has over 12,000 inhabitants, it is the undisputed administrative, economic, cultural, recreational and sports center of the region. A very important international route passes through Svidník, passing through Vyšný Komárnik - Barwinek, the largest border crossing from Slovakia to Poland. There is an airport on the outskirts of Svidník. The largest industrial plants are SVIK and Zakłady Spożywcze. The private sector has been developing strongly recently, mainly in the processing industry, in trade, services and agriculture.
In addition to two museums (the Slovak National Museum - the Museum of Ukrainian Culture and the Military Museum) in Svidník there is also the Provincial State Archives with valuable collections and documents from 1918-1990. The Poddukliańska Library in Svidník, as the first in Slovakia, implements a Dutch-Slovak project of borrowing books on the bibliobus.
In the summer, the most popular in terms of tourism is the national Festival of Rusyn-Ukrainians of Slovakia, which takes place every year in the city's amphitheater from 1956.
The town and surrounding villages do not stand out for valuable and artistically valuable secular buildings, but they have extremely valuable sacred, brick, but mainly wooden objects in which the genius of local folk architecture has fully reflected. The eleven wooden eastern rite church in the region - the largest in eastern Slovakia, belongs to the category of national cultural monuments.
Some Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic churches, or agricultural buildings belonging to the wooden folk architecture have been recognized as cultural monuments. The national monuments of culture also include the Monument of the Czechoslovak Army in Dukla with the area and the Monument to the Soviet Army in Svidník with cemeteries. In Hunkovce there is a cemetery of German soldiers who died during the Second World War.