Budatín Castle
Žilina
Budatín Castle in Žilina is one of the oldest standing monuments of the town. Its story began at the end of the thirteenth century, when it…
Žilina
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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…
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…
03 Church of the Conversion of St. Paul and Jesuit Monastery
Žilina
The Church of the Conversion of St. Paul and the Jesuit Monastery. They belong to the dominant features of the square and most Žilina…
04 Church of St. Barbara and Franciscan Monastery
Žilina
Church of St. Barbara and Franciscan monastery. The Franciscans came to Žilina in 1701 at the invitation of the Hungarian Palatine Paul…
05 Evangelical church a. v.
Žilina
Evangelical Church. The design by the prominent Slovak architect Michal Milan Harminc won the national competition of architects. The…
07 Neolog synagogue
Žilina
The Neolog Synagogue building was built between 1929 and 1931 according to the design of the world-famous German architect Peter Behrens on…
07 Neolog synagogue
Žilina
Neologic synagogue. Following an international competition, the world-renowned architect Professor Peter Behrens realized the construction…
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…
106 Braun House
Žilina
Braun House. It is the only house that has survived from the original development on the edge of today's Andrej Hlinka Square. A large part…
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…
114 Ripper House
Žilina
Ripper House. The two-storey Art Nouveau house was built in 1899 by the Žilina Art Nouveau builder Nicoletto Rauter. In the same year the…
25 Folkman House
Žilina
Folkman House. The house on the corner of Bottova Street originally belonged to the Harhovský family, who took care of an important…
29 Municipal Theatre
Žilina
The building of the Municipal Theatre was built between 1942 and 1945 both as the Representation House of the town and as the Roman…
30 Rosenfeld Palace
Žilina
Rosenfeld Palace. The City Palace, named after its owner, Žilina banker Ignác Rosenfeld, was built in 1907 by the architect Nicoletto…
30 Rosenfeld Palace
Žilina
Rosenfeld Palace. City palace of financier Ignaz Rosenfeld built in 1907 according to the design of Nicoletto Rauter. The building, with…