Banska Stiavnica in the pictures

• Banska Stiavnica arms from the first half of C13 [12 kb]
  Among heraldic symbols it enjoys an exceptional position, not only because of its age. The first Stiavnica seal is also the oldest representation of town's fortifications which is a pre-heraldic topographic symbol, and with mining implements set into the Arms.
• St. Catherine's Church; the tower of the Old Castle may be seen in the background. [18 kb]
  St. Catherine's church has a one-nave construction with low side chapels and a sacristy with Late-Gothic reticulated vaulting which spreads towards the end of the presbytery without a triumphal arch. Built in 1488 - 1491. Below the church a crypt is located, where magistrates and wealthy burgers were buried.
• Former Dominican church; at the present parish church [23 kb]
  The chuch was built originally as a three-nave Romanesque basilica of St. Nicholas. This building from the 1230's was rebuild several times and in 1806 modified to the Empire style.
• The Town Hall [28 kb]
  Originally a Gothic house modified to its present appearance in C18.
• The castle, rebuilt to a Renaissance town castle in mid-C16. [33 kb]
  A National Cultural Monument, the Old Castle is located in the west part of the town at the foot of Paradajs Hill. Various renovations since C13 have altered the original appearence of the building.
• New castle, a Renaissance building constructed in 1564 - 1571. [19 kb]
  The new castle is a massive six-stoyered, squared-off edifice with four circular corner bastions. It was connected to the town walls on two sides.
• Detailed view of the Old Castle [17 kb]
• Burgers' House; Holy Trinity Square. [26 kb]
  Houses located in the town centre belonged to the most highly respected burgesses - the waldburgers.
• Paintings on the facade of a burgers' house. [25 kb]
• Calvary above the town. [29 kb]
  Calvary consist of a complex of sacral Baroque buildings located to the northeast of the Urban Conservation Area, on a step hill named Scharfenberg. It was built during the years 1744 - 1751.
• The Piarg Gate. [12 kb]
  Originating from 1554 and rebuilt to its present Baroque appearence.
• Andrej Kmet street. [15 kb]
  A busy commercial street lined with burgers' houses built in the Renaissance style.
• Panorama of the mining town of Banska Stiavnica. [42 kb]
• The Holy Trinity Square with the sculptural grouping of the Holy Trinity, by sculptor D. Stanetti (1756-1764). [22 kb]
  Built to commemorate the victims of the Black Plague. The architectural elements of the column were created by K. Holznecht, one of the best stone-masons in central Europe of that time.
• Klopacka - the Baroque tower-shaped building (1681). [46 kb]
  It contained the "clapper", a kind of alarm which was used for summoning the miners up by means of its sound. The sound was produces by clapping together two resonant wooden boards.