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Banská Bystrica · Slovakia Capital
In the destination Banská Bystrica and Kremnica.
In the photo: Praetorium in the center of Banská Bystrica
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Capital of the Banská Bystrica region, in the Hron valley, enriched by copper and silver mining. The SNP square has the leaning clock tower from 1552 and merchant houses; beside it stands the town castle with churches and Matej’s house. A memorial museum tells the story of the 1944 antifascist uprising. To the north lies the mining village of Špania Dolina.
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The local experience
A 1552 tower atop SNP Square, known as the leaning tower because of its visible tilt from the vertical. The gallery looks over the square, the urban castle and the surrounding mountains.
Fortified complex on the high point of the center, with the barbican, bastions, the Church of the Assumption, the Gothic Church of the Holy Cross of 1452, Matej’s House from 1479, and the old town hall. It houses museum and gallery exhibitions.
Museum and memorial of the Slovak National Uprising of 1944, in a 1969 concrete building designed by Dušan Kuzma. Around it, an outdoor display gathers armored vehicles, cannons and a World War II aircraft.
Former mining village in the mountains north of Banská Bystrica, a reserve of vernacular architecture with wooden and stone houses, copper mine spoil heaps, a 13th-century church and a tradition of bobbin lace.
