Wooden moments

While the great soaring cathedrals dominate the large and even small cities across Europe and attract mobs of tourists and visitors. In the backwoods of Slovakia there are approximately 300 unique wooden churches that only attract locals, curious travelers, architecture buffs, photo hounds and perhaps the odd anthropologist, oh yeah and termites. Part of the charm of these elegant yet simple wooden churches is they are built without nails because nails are associated with the crucifixion. Despite the termites and the elements it is said that some of the churches might be 500 years old... certainly not as old as some of the stone churches however we have not seen any straw churches... so perhaps there is something to that old story....