It is about a small town in Slovakia

1. TLMAČE, THE TOWN
UNDER THE SLOVAK
GATE

2. SLOVAKIA

3. LEVICE

4. WHERE CAN YOU FIND US ?
 Tlmače is situated in the southwest of
Slovakia
 It is in region Nitra, district Levice
 The town Tlmače lies at 48° 17´21“ N a
18° 31´ 55“ E
 Altitude in the centre of the town is 176 m
 Total area is 4,64 km2

5. SOME PHOTOS OF TLMAČE

6. TOWN VIEW TLMAČE
 The town Tlmače consists of the (old)
village Tlmače on the left bank of the
Hron river and the housing estate
Lipník on its right bank.
 The lower, older part of Tlmače has
699 inhabitants and Lipník is home to
3181 inhabitants.

7. NATURAL CONDITIONS:
The town lies close to the south-west
foothills of the Štiavnicke vrchy mountains
where the river Hron leaves the
geomorphological narrowing called The
Slovak Gate. Its climate is warm and dry
with an average temperature of 9 °C and it
has 600mm of rainfall per year on average.

8. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN TLMAČE
The first written notice of Tlmače comes from the year 1075. It mentions
the fishing village Talmach, which belonged to the abbey of Svätý Beňadik. A part
of the village later belonged under the power of the Tekov castle and a few
yeomen families. In the year 1565 it belonged to the Ostrihom Chapter. In 1601 the
ottomans set fire to Tlmace and in 1709 it witnessed a battle of the emperors army
against the rebelling troops of nobleman Rakoci. Between 1938 and 1945 after the
Vienna Arbitration Tlmače became a frontier village on the border with Hungary.
The village saw significant development in 1949, with the construction of a plant
for production of power boilers and the construction of the Lipník housing estate on
the opposite site of the river. On 1st January Tlmace became
a town.

9. IMPORTANT SIGHTS:
 The monument to the victims of the Slovak
National Uprising on the Slovak National
Uprising Square (renovated in 2011)
 The Milan Rastislav Štefánik monument

10. IMPORTANT SIGHTS:
 The roman-catholic church of Our Lady of Sorrows from the year 1926
 The roman-catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 2012

11. The Slovak double cross and the memorial plaque in the
place of the old slavic hill fort Hrádze (also known as
Festung), which stand at the southern edge of the
Slovak Gate. A large archaeological research has been
made at this place. The hill fort had the shape of an
uneven quadrangle with an area of 2.4 hectare and was
fortified with a bulwark which is visible even today.

12. SPORT AND RECREATION:
 Wellness centre
 Beach lake
 Tennis court
 Football stadium

13. ACCOMMODATION:
Guesthouse Lipa Guesthouse Lamex

14. DAM ON THE RIVER HRON

15. NEXT TIME WE WILL SHOW YOU OUR
SCHOOL VII.A TEAM 