Radoľa Manor House

The manor house in Radola belongs to the oldest secular buildings in Kysuce. It was built in the second half of the sixteenth century as a residence of the Suňog family, who administered the Budatín manor. It served as the local residence of the nobility, the centre of the farm yard and in times of unrest also as a defensive object. The key shotguns - small openings in the walls that allowed the building to be defended - are still preserved here. In the seventeenth century, Gaspar III. Suňog rebuilt the manor. A stone brewery, an ice house, ponds and stables were built in its surroundings. After the demise of the church in the nearby Koscelisko, some stones from the older building were used in the construction of the manor house. After the death of the last male members of the Suňog family in the eighteenth century, the manor house passed into the hands of the Čáki family, who, however, did not use it. After the First World War, it was bought by local inhabitants and served as a residential house until the 1970s. Today the manor house is managed by the Kysuce Museum and reminds us of the noble past of the region.