The next stop was even better. Spiš castle completely dominates everything for miles around:

I climbed up to it – quite a hike – and looked around the ruins, some of which go back 700 years or more:

It has spectacular views over the surrounding countryside and villages too:

Across the other side of the village there’s another beautiful cathedral:

It has its own pretty little church street leading up to it:

but somehow you can’t escape that castle…