Dobšiná, Walkway in the Dobšiná Ice Cave, Dobšiná, Slovakia.©
SÃ¡gi Elemã©r /Shutterstock.comtown, Košický kraj (region),
eastern Slovakia. It lies in the Slovak Ore Mountains, on the
Slaná River northwest of Košice. The settlement was founded in
1326 by immigrant German miners and has retained the character
of its lumbering and iron-mining past. A few miles northwest is
Dobšinká Ice Cave, set in massive limestone rocks. The cave’s
largest room, called “Big Hall,” is 396 by 148 by 39 feet (120
by 45 by 12 metres); there is also a “Little Hall.” The cave
floor is an ice sheet 66 feet (20 metres) thick. An existing
UNESCO World Heritage site was expanded to include the cave in
2000. Pop. (2006 est.) 5,125.