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Chrám sv. Michala archanjela

Slovakia

Start with the claim that sticks: this wooden church in Ladomirová, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and dated to 1742, was built without a single nail. Stand close to the log walls and you are looking at timber held together by joinery alone. It is a Greek Catholic church, and it has been a national cultural monument since 1968. On 8 July 2008 it was inscribed on the World Heritage List. For a building of logs and shingle in a small eastern Slovak village, that is a remarkable run of recognition.

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