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Levoca

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Levoča 

a city in Czechoslovakia, in the Slovak Socialist Republic, in the kraj (region) of East Slovakia. Population, approximately 10,000. Highway junction.

The historical center of Levoča, with its 14th-century rectangular square and its regular grid of blocks, is now an architectural open-air museum. On the square is the Gothic Cathedral of St. James (14th and 15th centuries), the interior of which is decorated with late Gothic wooden altars (main altar done by Master Paul of Levoča, 1508–15). The Town Hall (1550–1615) and 16th- and 17th-century houses are also located on the square. Levoča is the site of a Minorite church and monastery (1310–20).



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Byline: ANI Washington, June 29 (ANI): The Sacred City of Caral-Supe (Peru), the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas, and the historic centre of the town of Levoca (Slovakia), have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Others in Europe included The Tower of Hercules in Spain, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle watchmaking towns in Switzerland and Slovakia's Levoca, with a historic town centre.
International Scientific Conference Quality and Reliability of Building Industry, Levoca (SR), 539-542.
 
 
 
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