Zaľúbená Štiavnica (Štiavnica in Love) is an experience game that lets you discover the real places where, almost 200 years ago, the true story of the fateful love between Marína and Sládkovič unfolded – a story that gave birth to the longest love poem in the world.
The game begins at the interactive statue group ‘Lovers Reading Marína’, the centrepiece of the little square in front of the Bank of Love. Place your palm on their heart and you’ll hear the Lovers tenderly declaring their love in the poem’s most famous verses. The main aim of the game is to find benches with miniature versions of this statue group around Banská Štiavnica and on the surrounding hills. By each pair of Lovers you’ll find QR codes that take you to www.zalubenastiavnica.sk, where you can read the stories behind the individual love verses and find a map of all the benches. You can discover the places at random or one by one following the map. Your reward is an emotionally charged journey through every stage of fateful relationship between Marína and Sládkovič: from enchantment, longing and falling in love, through their engagement, the sorrow of separation and the forced break-up, to remembrance and reconciliation in eternity.
