Mansions / Chateaux in Slovakia

Renaissance mansion in the city centre of Bytča is one of the most important and architecturally most impressive feudal settlements in Slovakia. The National Cultural Monument consists of a Renaissance palace so-called Wedding Palace as well as economic and residential buildings. Originally there was a small castle built in the 13th century, belonging to the Bishopric of Nitra. In 1563 Francis Turzo took possession of the Bytča estate together with the castle. He built on the site of an old Gothic castle new castle - fortified complex multi-functional structures in the years 1571- 74. In the...

Csáky's castle in Prievoz (older Csákys manor house) is a manor house that Count Eugen Csáky had built as his summer residence near Bratislava, probably in 1902. The building is from a period of ripening romanticism, but shows elements of eclecticism and has an irregular disposition. In 1916, Pavol Žolnajov sold out individual parts of the french garden originally belonging to the manor house. In 1933 the building together with a small part of the park were bought by the nuns of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Francis of Assisi, they established a monastery in the mansion and...

Csáky's mansion dating from the 1880s is the largest monument in the village of Bijacovce. It was built immediately after the Spiš Castle burnt down and is a typical late Baroque or Rococo-Classicist residential building located in the middle of a flat park. In 2002 it was declared a cultural monument and the grounds of the mansion, which consists of a park, farm yard, east and west gate, granary and fountain.

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 of the castle built and replaced it with a Classicist one, which is considered one of the purest and...

The Budmerice manor house is located in the Trnava Uplands near the edge of the Little Carpathians, in a park in front of the village of Budmerice, which in the past was a serf village of Červený Kameň Castle. It is 10 km from Modra and 15 km from Trnava. The manor is surrounded by an English park. It was built in 1889 in the pseudo-Gothic style by the Pálffy family as a hunting lodge. The Renaissance castles on the Loire were probably the inspiration for the construction. The architecture of the manor is a set of elements of several historical periods. The main façade with a receding risalit...

Dolná Krupá is situated 11 km north from the district town of Trnava, approx. 60 km from the capital city of SR Bratislava. The Classicistic castle from 1793-95 was last reconstructed in 1820-1821 based on the project of A.P.Rigel. The four slim pillars and the tympanum – these are the main identification signs of the building. Today, it belongs among the most beautiful examples of the provincial Classicistic architecture in Slovakia. The usage of the Brunswick-Chotek castle, a unique jewel of Classicism, for musical-museum purposes is connected with historically documented relations...

Originally Renaissance mansion house from 1643 was later rebuilt in Rococo style. It is situated in French garden with villa. Form 1959 it is used as Museum of historical furniture. Expositions: Historical furniture and historical art collections Musical instrument with keyboard (Dardanely villa) Tel.: +421 52 449 84 21

The Saint Anthony castle is also called Antol castle; it is a castle that is situated under the forest in the village of Svätý Anton (Saint Anthony) nearby Banská Štiavnica. It is a rather well preserved late Baroque-Classicistic castle with a large park. Since 1985, it has been evidenced as national cultural memory and it is made accessible also to the public. The late Baroque castle was built in 1744-1750 on the place of an older castle from the 15th century. The castle is precious due to its interior decoration. The last occupant was the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand Couburg. The castle...

The mansion in Oščadnica was built in the years 1910 - 1913 by the Prussian Junker Count Ballestrem. At that time, the mansion served as a hunting lodge, and the count established a forest park with an area of over 3 hectares. The manor building is two-track and two-story, symmetrical to the central axis, oriented longitudinally in the east-west direction. Over time, the manor house changed owners and other buildings were gradually added to it. In 1976, the mansion became the property of the Kysucka Gallery in Čadec and is currently the seat of the Kysucka Gallery in Oščadnica. The premises...

The Renaissance mansion in Turčianska Štiavnička was built in the second half of the 16th century, modified in the Baroque-Classicist style. At the beginning of the 1990s, extensive reconstruction began, but it has not yet been completed. At present, the manor house is not accessible to the public and is gradually deteriorating. The mansion also includes an extensive English park with a winter garden, lakes and rare trees. The park, which continuously grows into the surrounding forests, keeps the village and is open to the public. Visitors can see almost 400 tree species from all over the world....