Kostoľany pod Tribečom, tourist attractions
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GHYMES CASTLE
Gýmeš is a castle ruin on the southern slope of the Tribeč Mountains, approximately 5 km north of the village of Jelenec (Gýmeš). It is one of the family castles of the Forgách family - along with the Galicia Castle. The castle was built in the years 1253-1270 on the site of the old fort. In the 15th century was carried out extensive construction, they were built new palaces and vast fortification. Work on defense facilities continued in the 16th century, when the entrance to the castle...
Appony Castle
Oponice Castle is a ruin of a castle dating from the 13th century. The castle gradually belonged to Matúš Čák, Mikuláš Gutkeled, Dezider Kaplay and Mikuláš Ewrs. In 1430 the castle was conquered and damaged by Hussite troops, but it was repaired immediately. It gradually fell into the hands of increasingly poor owners, who restored it during the 16th and early 17th centuries as part of the anti-Turkish defense, but with great financial difficulties. Thanks to these adjustments, he resisted...
Topoľčianky Manor House and Castle
The village of Topoľčianky, which is located north of the western Slovak town of Zlaté Moravce at the foothill of the Tribeč Mountains, boasts an extensive English garden, which features a picturesque Classicist-style manor house that forms the southern wing of an old castle. The area originally featured a Gothic-style water castle and later a Renaissance fortress. At the outset of the 19th century, the then owner of the castle Count Ján Keglevich pulled down the southern Renaissance tract...
ARBORETUM MLYNANY
The arboretum Mlyňany is an always green park - a botanical garden in the neighbourhood of Zlaté Moravce, in the cadaster of villages Tesárske Mlyňany and Vieska nad Žitavou. It keeps the biggest collection of wood species in Slovakia. The arboretum was established in the year 1892 by the Ugrian lord Dr.Štefan Ambrózy-Migazzi. After the wedding with Antonia Migazzi he got a manor in Mlyňany, later he purchased woods in Vieska nad Žitavou, he made a castle and a tower to be built here. As...
Vazul tower
The site of the Vazul Tower was once a fortress, which was gradually rebuilt. The original tower was two-story, with two entrances: one entrance led to the tower from the courtyard and the other from the castle bell tower. There are portholes in the lower part of the tower and 3 windows on the first floor. We know from older photographs that there was no saddle roof on the tower before, it is the result of the last reconstruction. Below the tower is a late castle prison. The tower and the castle...
Súsošie Panna Mária Immaculata
Kostol sv. Emeráma
St. Emmeram's Cathedral bears Romanesque style. It has a horseshoe-shaped Romanian apse, separated from the square nave by a triumphal arch. The original building was damaged and later shortened in 1328 as space was needed to build the support columns of the Upper Church. After the construction of the Gothic church, part of the church was used as an archive. After a fire raging in the church in 1465, the Romanesque part of the castle church was erected and then covered with a rib vault. The current...