Holčíkovce, national cultural monuments

St. Nicholas Church is a wooden Greek Catholic Church of the Eastern rite in the village in Bodružal, in the district Svidník in the Prešov region. Since July 8, 2008 it is registered in the list of world cultural heritage by UNESCO under number 1273-007. It comes from 1658 and is one of the oldest sacral buildings of Eastern rite in Slovakia. The church has three towers. It has a log construction in a shape of three squares setup on one axis from east to west. Its exterior is lined with wooden...

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also called the Wooden Church or Church, is a Greek Catholic wooden church in the village of Příkra. It has been a national cultural monument since 1968. It stands on an elevated stone foundation, which balances the slope of the terrain to the west. The entrance to the vestibule is from the west side. A special element is the covering of the roof spaces between the tower and the nave and between the nave and the sanctuary. The temple was reconstructed in...

The Church of St. Paraskieva is a Greek Catholic wooden church located in the village of Dobroslava in the Svidník district in the Prešov region. The church dating from 1705 is a three-room building in the shape of a cross with a transverse nave standing on a high stone foundation. Its characteristic appearance includes three unequally high domes topped by towers with mines. The church area is surrounded by a fence. There is a cemetery inside the complex. The church was rebuilt in 1880 and finally...

National  Cultural Monument,  this building  is unique in Slovakia, it combined  elements  of  the Early-Renaissance typical  for areas north of  Alps with the fading  out of  Late-Gothic artistic  and architectural  details. The high stepped gables and pitched roofs, as well as the  staircase  oriels  are  unique  and  characterize  the two-storeyed block-like building of the former Town Hall located in the  middle of the square. It  was the headquarters of the town council,...

The most important monument on the principal  square in Bardejov  inscribed in  the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage, is the parish church of St Egidius standing in its northern part. Its construction started at the beginning of the 15th century probably at the site of the Cistercian monastery. It was conceived as a majestic Gothic basilica with three naves. The main nave and the church as a whole were finished in the years 1513-1518. The generally simple architecture of the...

Greek Catholic Church of St. Luke the Evangelist from 1727 in the village Brezany, district Prešov is a historic wooden sacral building in Slovakia. Restoration of the church was made in the second half of the 18th century. It is currently also a branch of the Roman Catholic parish in nearby Bajerov. From an architectural point of view it regards as an atypical three-part log-house with a strong influence of Gothic Roman Catholic religious architecture. The windows are made by deep cuts in two...

The St. Elisabeth Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral in Košice. It is Slovakia's biggest church. The record on the existence of Košice dating from 1230 in connected with that on the existence of the rectory church. In the process of the settlement's transformation from a rural community into a town, all its periods of success and failures had been reflected on St. Elizabeth's Cathedral. According to historic data the present-day cathedral was built on the site of an edifice of older...