Virtual tours of SLOVAK REPUBLIC

St. Elizabeth's Cathedral

The noted medieval monument was built in the High Gothic style. The construction of St. Elizabeth’s Cathedral began in approximately 1378. The interior of the St. Elizabeth’s Cathedral is very imposing and valuable. Important and gorgeous aspects of the Cathedral are: main altar of St. Elizabeth’s, a hanging sculpture of Immaculate, the Late Gothic altar Visit of Virgin Mary, a stone epitaph of the Rainer family, a wooded sculpture of Virgin Mary, fragment of the wall painting “ The Last Trial”, the side altar of St. Anton Paduansky, a wall painting “The Resurrection”, the bronze font, the altar painting of St. Anna Metercia, Gothic Calvary, the lantern of the king Mathew, wooden polychrome sculptures, the side altar Worship of three Kings, Neo-Gothic stone pulpit. Valuable masterpieces and relics are preserved in the treasury.

Urban's Tower

Originally a Gothic prismatic campanile with a pyramidal roof, dating back to the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. A bell, installed in the bell tower, was dedicated to St. Urban, the patron of wine-makers. The bell weights 7 tons. Thirty six tombstones dating from the 14th to the 17th centuries were built into the outer walls of the tower. One the tombstones was brought from Rome in 4th century.