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Ždiar (Hungarian: Zár, German: Morgenröthe, Goral: Zor) is a village and municipality in the Poprad District in the Prešov Region in Spiš in northern Slovakia. History [ edit ]
This is a list of castles in Slovakia. This list includes palaces, citadels and manor houses. These Slovak words translate as follows: hrad, hrádok - castle;
Šášov castle – A ruin of gothic castle, dated first half of the 13th century, guarding the Hron gorge. It is located in the city's part of Šášovské Podhradie. The first written record dates back to 1253. The castle became a royal castle in the 14th century. It had multiple owners in the difficult 17th century.
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The ruins of Spiš Castle (Slovak: Spišský hrad, pronunciation ⓘ; Hungarian: Szepesi vár; Polish: Zamek Spiski; German: Zipser Burg) in eastern Slovakia belong to six largest castles sites in Slovakia. [1] The castle is situated above the town of Spišské Podhradie and the village of Žehra, in the region known as Spiš (Hungarian: Szepes ...
The most outstanding is Spiš Castle, in eastern Slovakia, dating from 1209. [1]: 38 Among the oldest churches in Slovakia are: The Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch, Kopčany, one of the oldest churches in Slovakia, a pre-Romanesque building for which Greater Moravian origin is considered. The church was built probably in the 9th or 10th ...
Sklabiňa Castle or Castle of Sklabiňa is a ruined medieval castle near Sklabiňa, a village in northern Slovakia. Located at an altitude of 626 meters above sea level, it is one of the largest and most visited castles in the Žilina Region .
The castle was built in the 13th century by the Hungarian Ákos brothers [note 1] on a trade route leading from Transylvania through Košice to Spiš and today's Poland. [1] The Ákos family (which later changed its name to Bebek) lived in Krásna Hôrka from the mid-13th century to 1566, apart from a short period when the Mariássy family seized control of the castle. [1]