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Salaš pod Maginhradom: Gemer sheep’s cheese and the Mitrovanie feast

Hlavná 206, 980 51 Veľké Teriakovce, Slovakia
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A shepherds’ farmstead below a legendary hill

Veľké Teriakovce is a village where the Rimava basin meets the Revúca Highlands, a few kilometres north of Rimavská Sobota. Across the road rises Maginhrad hill: in the 15th century a castle stood there that served as a Hussite fortress, and the Romantic poet Ján Botto dedicated a ballad to it. The memory of the vanished castle lives on in Salaš pod Maginhradom — a timber farmstead built in the style of a traditional shepherd’s yard.

At its heart is a family farm that sells its products under the name Špeciality z farmy (Farm Specialities). It keeps sheep and cattle, with an emphasis on balanced feed, natural movement and long grazing on pasture. Milk from its own animals goes into the cheeses, and the meat is sold fresh straight from the farm. Gemer-Malohont is one of the great sheep-farming regions of Slovakia, and the salaš deliberately keeps this tradition alive.

Why go

  • Buy sheep’s cheese from the farm. The farm shop and online shop sell 100% sheep’s products: lump cheese, smoked oštiepok, Slovak bryndza, smoked salaš cheese, parenica, cheese sticks and Klenovecký syrec — a matured sheep’s cheese for which nearby Klenovec is famous.
  • Eat salaš-style. The restaurant offers traditional regional dishes, food inspired by shepherds’ life and homemade “grandma’s” desserts, and publishes a new daily offer every week.
  • Catch Mitrovanie. Every year in mid-October the salaš hosts the feast marking the end of the grazing season. At the 13th edition in 2026 the head shepherd demonstrated sheep shearing, a local cheesemaker made cheese from fresh sheep’s milk and craftspeople showed wool carding, spinning and weaving; there was a regional-products market, a show of pedigree sheep, halušky-eating and žinčica-drinking contests, a mutton cooking competition, folk ensembles and a ceremonial procession of shepherds. The climax is the old ritual of the head shepherds “reporting” to the farmer, which once meant the end of service on the salaš and settling accounts for the season, and the day closes with everyone singing “Už je Mitra, aj po Mitre…”.

What to taste and buy

Besides cheese, the farm sells lamb and mutton (rack, leg, foreleg, boneless meat, as well as a whole or half lamb), goat’s milk and A2A2 cow’s milk, and even dried mushrooms. At Mitrovanie the stand of the local action group MALOHONT offers tastings of products bearing the Regional Product Gemer-Malohont label: Klenovec syrec, sausages, cold-pressed oils, osúchy flatbreads and blackcurrant wine.

Practical information

Address: Hlavná 206, 980 51 Veľké Teriakovce, on the main road through the village. It is about 8 km by car from Rimavská Sobota and roughly 90 km from Banská Bystrica. There is parking; the site is level with barrier-free facilities, so it suits families with children and older visitors alike.

Hours (as of October 2026): restaurant Monday and Sunday 11:00–20:00, Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–21:00. According to OpenStreetMap the farm shop is open daily 10:00–18:30 — call before you go: +421 911 717 134, [email protected]. Prices are listed in the farm’s online shop.

Nearby

  • Čučoriedková záhrada in Ratkovské Bystré — pick-your-own blueberries and aronia juice.
  • Rimavská Sobota — the centre of Malohont with its square and churches.
  • Klenovec — home of Klenovec syrec and a gateway to the Veporské vrchy mountains.

Official website: specialityzfarmy.sk

Photos: salaspodmaginhradom.sk.

Getting there from Ukraine

Border crossings

  • Uzhhorod – Vyšné Nemecké — road, 24/7
  • Malyi Bereznyi – Ubľa — road, 24/7 For cars and buses; pedestrians not confirmed by the Ukrainian border service, lorries up to 3.5 t.
  • Mali Selmentsi – Veľké Slemence (pedestrian) — pedestrian, 09:00–21:00 Kyiv time Pedestrians and cyclists only; inconvenient for the Tatras without onward transport.
  • Chop – Čierna nad Tisou (rail) — rail, 24/7

By car

From Uzhhorod to Brezno ≈274 km, ≈3 h 50 min without queues: Uzhhorod – Vyšné Nemecké → I/19 to Košice → D1 via Prešov and Poprad to the exit near Liptovský Hrádok → I/18 and I/72 over the Čertovica Pass to Brezno. To Banská Bystrica ≈322 km, ≈4 h 30 min: D1 to Ružomberok, then I/59 via Donovaly. From Lviv: to Brezno via Uzhok and Ubľa ≈498 km (≈7 h 45 min) or through Poland ≈554 km (≈7 h 05 min); to Banská Bystrica through Poland (Kraków – Chyżne – Trstená – Dolný Kubín – Ružomberok) ≈535 km, ≈7 h 15 min. The D1 requires an e-vignette (eznamka.sk).

Checked 23.10.2026; border crossing hours and timetables change — check before you travel.

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