Bojnice Castle: Festival of Ghosts and Spirits, Family Time, Central Europe

Go inland, family, go inland.

The 19th century history of the castle is reenacted by young people every summer at Bojnice Castle, Slovakia. Dance, narration, move room to room and follow the story.

The cruise ships passing through Slovakia party down the Danube, dock at Bratislava, with its old town and castle on the hill.  End of sentence.  Everybody going down the Danube sees that.  Take time off the ship, especially if you have children.  Go inland, and then back on the next ship at Bratislava.

Rent a car and go to Bojnice:  every summer there is constant street party, zoo, castle, and at the castle, a young people’s drama of the 19th century history — in tableau.  There will be costume, dance, narrator, go through the doors and through the rooms, and the young people act out the tale of sad, unrequited love, the effort to recreate the French Loire Valley, and lure the lady.  The International Festival of Ghosts and Spirits, every May. Each year, we understand, focuses on a different phase of its history, see http://www.bojnicecastle.sk/kalendar-en.html.

Bojnice Castle, Slovakia. Ancient doors. Old, old hinges still work.

Our year:  unrequited love! and death.

Bojnice Castle, Slovakia; Festival of Ghosts and Spirits

Buy your ticket, groups pass through the rooms of tableaux and narration in small groups, hushed steps to the next scene, next room, in the dark inside.

Bojnice Castle, Slovakia: Full of centuries of art, wall treatments, furnishings.

Bojnice Castle, Slovakia. The Ghost glides about the castle, pursuing even the hapless tourist looking down the well. Dan Widing dares not look.

All the ghost wanted was his love to join him in the castle he recreated as a French dream, for her.  It did not work out.