Dolná Krupá
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Dolná Krupá is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and municipality
Municipality
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 of Trnava District
Trnava District
Trnava District is adistrict in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia.Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the Hungarian countyof Pozsony, apart from Bučany in the east which formed part of Nyitra County.-Municipalities:*Biely Kostol*Bíňovce...

 in the Trnava region
Trnava Region
The Trnava Region is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions.-Geography:It is located in the middlewest part of Slovakia and forms a territorial band between the Bratislava Region and the rest of Slovakia, between Austrian and Czech borders in the north and Hungarian border in the south...

 of Slovakia
Slovakia
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. It is located in the Danubian Hills
Danubian Hills
The Danubian Hills , also translated as Danubian Upland, is the north-eastern, more mountain-like, part of the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia....

 at around 12 km from the city of Trnava
Trnava
Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center...

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The important sights in the village are:
  • the Saint Andrew
    Saint Andrew
    Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...

     church, built in 1807-1811
  • the Dolná Krupá mansion
    Mansion
    A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...

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The Dolná Krupá mansion was one of the residences of the Chotek family
Chotek family
The Chotek family was an aristocratic family from Bohemia. When this and other Bohemian noble families' surnames and/or territorial suffixes are translated from the Czech language, particules and conjunctions are usually translated into German, rather than into English..The family is first...

. It was the place of the Dolná Krupá rosarium created by countess Marie Henrieta Chotek
Marie Henrieta Chotek
Countess Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnín – - , also known as the countess of roses was a grower of roses, who established the rosarium of Dolná Krupá ,-The Dolná Krupá mansion:The village of Dolná Krupá is located in the Danubian Hills at...

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