Slow travel in Slovakia.

2 places on the quieter side of Slovakia — chosen for low visitor pressure, reachable by land, and worth more nights than a stopover.

Banská Štiavnica

A UNESCO silver-mining town in a collapsed volcano, with Europe's old mining university, a Baroque Calvary on the hill and a ring of man-made lakes.

A copper-mining village of 240 people above Banská Bystrica, where the miners' wives made bobbin lace — and the lace is still taught.