Cultural and historical heritage
Blatnica Castle
Blatnica
In the Veľká Fatra Mountains, about two kilometres above the village of Blatnica, there is an easily accessible ruin. Blatnica Castle was…
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Castles and chateaux
Castle and manor house in Liptovský Hrádok
Liptovský Hrádok
Liptovský Hrádok is the only ruin of a water castle in Slovakia. It stands on a small limestone rock by the Bela River in the northern part…
Castles and chateaux
Likava Castle
Likavka
Likava Castle is the largest castle building in Liptov and one of the highest castles in Slovakia. With its height of more than thirty-six…
Castles and chateaux
Liptov Castle
Kalameny
Liptovský castle stands on the Sestrč hill at the height of almost a thousand metres above sea level. It is the highest castle in Slovakia…
Cultural and historical heritage
Manor house in Oščadnica
Oščadnica
The Oščadnica manor house was built at the beginning of the twentieth century as a summer hunting lodge of Count Valentin Ballestrem. The…
Cultural and historical heritage
National Cemetery in Martin
Martin
The most visited places in Martin traditionally include the National Cemetery, in addition to the Slovak Matrix and the Slovak National…
Castles and chateaux
Orava Castle
Oravský Podzámok
Orava Castle grew on a rocky cliff above the Orava River in the middle of the thirteenth century. Originally there was a wooden fortress,…
Cultural and historical heritage
Radoľa Manor House
Radoľa
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…
Castles and chateaux
Sklabiňa Castle
Sklabinský Podzámok
Sklabiňa Castle is one of the largest castle complexes in the Turiec region and in the whole Žilina region. It lies in the foothills of…
Attractions, sights, tourism, leisure
Štrampľoch - Turkish wells
Krupina
The Turkish Wells are a unique rock formation in the town of Krupina in the locality of Štrampľoch. There are rock shelters carved in…
Castles and chateaux
Strečno Castle
Strečno
The Strečno Castle, which rises on a limestone cliff about four hundred and twenty metres above sea level, is an important historical…
Castles and chateaux
Sulov Castle
Súľov-Hradná
Sulov Castle was built in the thirteenth century to protect the nearby trade route. The first written mention of it dates back to 1470,…
Cultural and historical heritage
The watchtower Vartovka
Krupina
The Krupina watchtower Vartovka was built around 1564. Its main task was, together with other watchtowers in the area, to inform about the…
Cultural and historical heritage
Zaniknutý románsky kostol sv. Michala
Hontianske Tesáre
The remains of the Romanesque church of St. Michael were discovered by chance in 1990 during a deep plowing near the settlement of Patkôš.…
Castles and chateaux
Zniev Castle
Kláštor pod Znievom
Znievsky Castle, originally called Turčiansky Castle, is the oldest castle in the Turiec region and one of the highest castles in Slovakia.…
Tower, observation tower
02 Burian Tower
Žilina
Burian Tower. It is located on Horný val Street, next to the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Its fate is connected with the name of the owner of…
Cultural and historical heritage
Andrej Kmet's Museum
Martin
Andrej Kmet's Museum. One of the most beautiful buildings in the city in terms of architecture and decoration is undoubtedly the old…
Cultural and historical heritage
Bar Association Building
Martin
Since 1921 Martin was the seat of the Bar Association, and three years later there was already an administrative building designed by Ján…
Cultural and historical heritage
Church of St. Martin
Bátovce
St. Martin's Church is a single-nave, originally Romanesque church with a Baroque presbytery, a northern sacristy connected with the…
Cultural and historical heritage
Church of St. Martin
Martin
We present to you the richest monument in the city, if we are talking about interior decoration. St. Martin's Church. This church was built…
Cultural and historical heritage
City Castle - Barbican
Banská Bystrica
Banská Bystrica was one of the most strategically important cities in Hungary. The town castle was built on the hill where important trade…
Cultural and historical heritage
Classicist manor house
Hontianske Moravce
The Classicist manor house is located in the centre of the village of Hontianske Moravce. It was built in the first half of the 19th…
Cultural and historical heritage
Clock Tower
Banská Bystrica
The clock tower is the most visible and most famous landmark of the main square in Banská Bystrica. Its construction began in 1552. Later…
Cultural and historical heritage
Evangelical church on Memorial Square
Martin
Permission to build a church was granted to the townspeople in November 1783 and the following November the predecessor of the present…