Lazovna Street

Many important citizens and cultural authorities lived in the houses of this street. Izidor Ziak Somolicky a poet and writer, and Gustav Zechenter Laskomersky, a physician and writer, lived in house No.8.

Two Renaissance houses were combined into a luxurious Baroque corner building in the middle of the 18th century. In 1769 it became the seat of the district administration. At present it is a seat of the State Scientific Library.

House No.10, from the 16th century, began as two Gothic houses. A beamed ceiling has a year inscription of 1643. Now there are nature protection offices there.

No.32 has housed a kindergarten since 1829. It was the first kindergarten in Slovakia.

Katovna Street (the Executioner's Street) lies behind the original town walls, as shown by the remnants of fortification walls and a bastion. An Evangelical church in the classic style was also built behind the town walls in the years 1803 - 1807, according to the design of M. Pollack. The picture of Jesus Christ by the painter Daegea was a gift from the Prussian king Fridrich William IV. The building of the evangelical parish office has a memorial tablet with the relief of Karol Kuzmany, the first vice-president of Matica slovenska, who once lived here. The building of the former evangelical school houses a Literary and Musical Museum today. Many important figures of cultural life are buried in the cemetery behind the church, e.g. Jan Botto, Andrej Stollmann, Martin Razus, Terezia Vansova, Viliam Figus Bystry and Alexander Matuska.

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