Voice of the Forest, Zlatá baňa, Slovakia

Voice of the Forest - wooden megaphone

Listening to the rich sounds of nature invites you to wooden megaphone near the village of Zlata Baňa. The 4-metre-long megaphone was created by four young men from the ‘Voice of the Forest’ civic association and built by 15 men in their spare time.

The core of the megaphone consists of seven rings, made of 63 parts. The rings are connected by three four-metre prisms. One can sit down in the megaphone and immediately absorb the sounds of nature. The enormous 2.5-ton structure is shaped like a nine-sided igloo, and deliberately so. This shape has the property of concentrating the rays and waves bouncing off its walls into a single point. A person sitting near this point will thus hear the amplified sounds coming from the surroundings and can comfortably listen to what the forest is telling him.

This unique attraction is the second in Europe, the only similar one can be found only in Estonia.

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The wooden megaphone stands near the cycle route linking Prešov with the surrounding villages, about one kilometre beyond the village of Zlatá Baňa in Temný Forest and 200 metres from the gazebo and the campfire site.

The easiest way to find your way to the megaphone is via Google Maps.

At the start of the cycle route in Prešov, there are signposts to guide you along the route through Kokošovce, Sigord, Zlatá Baňa and past the car park to the megaphone itself.

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