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…
Historical houses / buildings, Point of interest, Cultural and historical heritage
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Cultural and historical heritage
Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Krupina
One of the most beautiful buildings in Krupina is the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. This Romanesque three-nave…
Cultural and historical heritage
Church of St. George
Rosina
The wooden church of St. George in the Trnové district of Žilina is the westernmost Gothic wooden sacral building in Slovakia. This unique…
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
Marriage Palace in Bytča
Bytča
The Marriage Palace in Bytča is an exceptional monument not only in Slovakia, but also in the wider Central European area. It was built by…
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…
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…
Natural attractions
Rímske kúpele
Dudince
The stone terrace called the Roman Baths is a protected natural formation located in Dudince. The legend tells about the origin of the…
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.…
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…