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The Slovak Astronomical Clock is the largest wooden statue in Slovakia. Located in Kysuce, in the center of Stara Bystrica, in the district Cadca. It represents the sitting Madonna, the Seven-Sorrowed Virgin Mary, the patron saint of Slovakia. The Astronomical Clock was completed in 2009. It was designed by the academic sculptor Viliam Lovišek and reworked into the drawing documentation by architect Ivan Jarin. Astronomical clock face is the heart of the astronomical clock. astrolabe, which is...

Havránok is an important archaeological site in northern Slovakia. It is located on a hill above the Liptovská Mara water reservoir around 2 km from the village of Bobrovník, about halfway between Ružomberok and Liptovský Mikuláš in the Liptov region. The archaeologists unearthed a prehistoric Celtic hill fort and a medieval wooden castle in the 1960s, during the construction of the Liptovská Mara dam. Both objects have been partially reconstructed. During the Iron Age and the Roman Era,...

Kysuce Museum in Čadca is specialized regional cultural institution for the museum documentation on the development of nature and society, science and technology, culture and art in the territory of Kysuce, from the earliest traces of settlement until the present day. It comes with a permanent exhibition documenting the history and nature of the region Kysuce, as well as temporary exhibitions. It is also a specialized museum with a nationwide scope in the field of documenting the development of...