Variety of nature in Devín could be explained by the fact that the intersection of migration corridors is concerned here. Such corridors are very important in the European context. Animals migrating from the south to the north had always been passing this place. They...
From the ecology point of view, the interglacial periods are short anomalies only. Whereas the ice ages lasted tens of thousands of years, interglacial periods were very short – just a few thousand years. It happened that the human civilization taking advantages of...
We can see a forest on the slopes of Devínska Kobyla, but it does not belong there. It was artificially planted on the rocky slopes at the time of socialism since the slopes were considered ugly and non-productive. At those times, exotic woody plants – Robinia...
Despite its relatively small area (circa 500 x 280 metres), the Devín Castle hill has surprisingly rich geological composition demonstrated in a variety of stones used by the constructors in various periods for building the walls and defence, residential, and farm...
How could the oldest part of the medieval Devín Castle – the residential tower built on the top of the rock cliff above the confluence of the Danube and Morava rivers – look like? The comprehensive construction-historical as well as the archaeological research on the...
