Industrial and derelict locations to film in Slovakia
9 of them, 4 with a photo. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
Shooting in Slovakia pays back through the Slovak Audiovisual Fund cash rebate (33% (14% on foreign crew fees)): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Cierny Vah Pumped Storage Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Slovakia's largest pumped storage plant, with an upper reservoir at 1,160 metres, penstocks down the mountainside and a machine hall in the Low Tatras valley.
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Hodrusa-Hamre Mining Village
Industrial & derelict
Mining village in a narrow valley with ore processing buildings, adits and miners' houses, part of the UNESCO listed Banska Stiavnica mining landscape.
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Karlova Huta Blast Furnace
Industrial & derelict
Charcoal fired blast furnace at Vlachovo, part of the Slovak Technical Museum, kept as an example of nineteenth century pig iron production with its stone stack and casting house.
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Solivar Salt Works
Industrial & derelict
Seventeenth century brine pumping and salt boiling complex in Presov, including the late Baroque salt warehouse with its timber roof structure and chambers, a national cultural monument.
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Bata Shoe Factory Partizanske
Industrial & derelict
Bata shoe works founded in 1939 in a purpose built company town, producing 30 million pairs a year under socialism, with repeating red brick production blocks and wide avenues.
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Luky House of Culture Supply Tunnel, Petrzalka
Industrial & derelict
Service tunnel and basement level under a 1980s culture house in the Petrzalka housing estate, partly neglected, with concrete corridors, pipe runs and plant rooms.
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Munition Factory Dubnica nad Vahom
Industrial & derelict
Heavy engineering works built in 1937 as part of the Skoda group, later making bridges, locomotives and construction machinery, with large halls and yards on the edge of Dubnica.
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Sugar Refinery Surany
Industrial & derelict
Sugar factory and refinery in production from 1854, the oldest refinery in the former Habsburg monarchy, now a disused plant of tanks, silos and brick halls beside the town.
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Tobacco Factory Smolnik
Industrial & derelict
Former chamber theatre converted into a tobacco factory in 1872 and closed for more than ten years, standing empty in a mining village in the Slovak Ore Mountains.
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