Natural attractions
Vodná nádrž Bebrava
Krupina
The Bebrava reservoir also called the Krupina Dam was built in 1993. Among other things, it serves fish farming, mainly carp, and for…
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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.…
Cultural and historical heritage
01 Holy Trinity Cathedral
Žilina
Holy Trinity Cathedral. It was first mentioned in 1423, when Štefan Langworst, a townsman from Žilina, donated part of his property to the…
Cultural and historical heritage
07 Neolog synagogue
Žilina
Neologic synagogue. The building was designed in 1928 by the internationally renowned German architect Professor Peter Behrens. The…
Cultural and historical heritage
08 Orthodox synagogue
Žilina
The Orthodox synagogue is a simple building with a prayer room and other rooms. It was built in 1927 according to the designs of Engineer…
Cultural and historical heritage
08 Orthodox Synagogue - Museum of Jewish Culture
Žilina
Museum of Jewish Culture. In the premises of the former women's section of the Orthodox synagogue, the Jewish Religious Community in…
Cultural and historical heritage
10 Jewish cemetery
Žilina
Jewish cemetery. Jews appeared in Žilina only in the middle of the nineteenth century. The exact date of the Jewish cemetery in Žilina is…
Cultural and historical heritage
10 Jewish Cemetery - Ceremonial Hall
Žilina
The Jewish cemetery is entered through the ceremonial hall. There are smaller buildings attached to it on both sides. In one of them lives…
Cultural and historical heritage
10 Jewish Cemetery - Holocaust Memorial
Žilina
Holocaust Memorial. In the ceremonial hall of the Jewish cemetery, architect Jozef Zweigenthal created a remarkable memorial to Žilina's…
Cultural and historical heritage
10 Military cemetery in the Jewish cemetery
Žilina
More than twenty Jewish soldiers who died in an infirmary established during the First World War were buried in the Jewish cemetery. The…
Cultural and historical heritage
107 Deportation of Jews during World War II - Memorial "The Road of No Return"
Žilina
The memorial "The Road of No Return" - The memorial commemorates the place where, from March to October 1942, during the Second World War,…
Cultural and historical heritage
107 Deportations of Jews during World War II
Žilina
Deportations of Jews during World War II. Bratislava-Patrónka, Sereď-Jewish camp, Nováky-Jewish camp, Poprad-Kasárne pod Gerlachom,…
Cultural and historical heritage
11 Town hall
Žilina
Town Hall. The Town Hall building is a continuation of the original building, which was destroyed during the great fire of 1886. It was…
Cultural and historical heritage
39 Steam bath Petrovský
Žilina
Petrovsky Steam Baths. The Art Nouveau-style building with a steam bath and a residential part was built by Ludovít Petrovský in 1924. The…
Cultural and historical heritage
50 Digger's house
Žilina
Digger's house. Kálov is the old medieval name of the area of Žilina, where the original development of ground-floor houses was built in…
Cultural and historical heritage
68 Craftsman's house
Žilina
Craftsman's house. One of the most distinctive buildings in the city, not only because of its location right on a busy intersection, but…
Cultural and historical heritage
82 Jewish Folk School
Žilina
The old Jewish Folk School, which had stood in Žilina since about 1873, was small and did not suit the growing number of pupils. The…
Cultural and historical heritage
83 Gym Makabi - Puppet theatre
Žilina
Makabi was an association of Jewish physical education and sports clubs during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Next to the…
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…
Attractions, sights, tourism, leisure
Archaeoskanzen Havránok
Vlachy
Havránok is a unique archaeological museum in nature, which rises above the surface of the Liptovská Mara near the village of Bobrovník.…
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
Basilica of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Rajecká Lesná
Rajecká Lesná is located in the northwest of Slovakia in the Žilina Region. It is home to one of the most important pilgrimage sites in our…
Cultural and historical heritage
Bell tower at the church
Mošovce
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Mošovce today looks like a romantic building that connects the past with the present. This is thanks to…