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Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

Banská Štiavnica's old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past, like the world’s first technical university devoted to Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy was founded here in 1762. UNESCO WHS description.

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Uploaded on February 6, 2007
Taken on June 29, 2005