Things to do and tourist attractions in Lehota nad Rimavicou and surroundings

One of the most important archaeological sites of Kyjatice culture is located above the village of Kyjatice. The people of Kyjatice culture were characterized by the ritu...

Can you guess which tank won World War II? For many, the answer is probably clear. It is the Soviet tank T-34. And one of them, as a memory of the liberation struggles of...

The historical jewel of the city of Poltár is undoubtedly the local stone bridge, also called the Turkish Bridge. This material piece of history is said to have been left...

The Center of Culture and Fine Arts in Rimavská Sobota has been the Municipal Gallery since 1996 as an organizational unit of the Municipal Cultural Center. The gallery h...

The Gemer-Malohont Museum in Rimavská Sobota is the fifth oldest museum in Slovakia. The museum is housed in a historic building built in the Classicist style, which orig...

The village of Sirk was in the past an important locality of iron ore mining. That's why a blast furnace and a hammer were built here. The iron furnace was in operation f...

The cog railway Tisovec - Zbojská - Pohronská Polhora was established in 1896, especially for the needs of the developing metallurgical industry.

The railway was used fo...

The town of Revúca is a cradle of the formation of the modern Slovak nation as well as an important center of the development of the Slovak standard language in the Hodža...

In the very historical center of Lučenec, there is a monumental building of the former county court. Today, this beautiful historical building is the seat of the Museum a...

Fiľakovo was a city where people expected to be bombed because there was military production of the highest category. In addition, Fiľakovo was an important railway junct...

The castle is located at the top of the rock almost in the center of Fiľakovo. The first written mention of the castle is from the 13th century, where it is stated that t...

The building of the city reduta in Fiľakovo was built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since then, it has become a center of social and cultural events in the ...

Not far from the village of Magnezitovce, there is a magnificent technical monument - the Koprášský tunnel and viaduct. The Koprášský tunnel was built in 1941. The tunnel...

In the picturesque surroundings of the Vydrovská Valley near Čierny Balog, the Forestry Open-Air Museum was founded, which is the only one in Slovakia.

The location of t...

Čiernohronská Railway (ČHŽ) is a narrow-gauge forest railway with a gauge of 760 mm. Its construction began in 1908 and regular traffic began on the track in 1909. It was...

The construction of an alternative line to Slavošovce was started in 1941. The reason was the affiliation of the southern Slovak territories to Hungary after the Vienna A...

The name of Kostná Valley (The Bone Valley) is not random. It is an important locality of early Tertiary bones of tapirs, mastodons and rhinos. Kostná Valley is therefore...

Podpolianske Museum in Detva is located in the historical part of the city in the building of the former Municipal Office. The museum is one of the youngest Detvian cultu...

Arteska House of Art in the town of Detva is a private cultural center of modern visual arts providing space for students and non-professional artists to present their wo...

The Museum of Horehronie in Brezno is one of the younger museums in Slovakia. Its permanent exhibition Literary Brezno is located in the renovated premises of the old gra...

In the mountainous surroundings of Osrblie, there is a blast furnace from the period of Hungarian Kingdom. It is an important technical monument, of which only the remain...

The Museum of Horehronie in Brezno is one of the younger museums in Slovakia. Its collection consists of more than 30,000 objects, as well as a number of written and pict...

The region of Horehronie is known for its rich metallurgical production, the center of which is the village of Podbrezová. This is where the Metallurgical Museum of Želez...

The characteristic feature of the village of Telgárt is not only a charming alpine nature, but also a unique object called the Chmaroš Viaduct. It is a stone railway brid...

The village of Vígľaš lies in the valley of the river Slatina in Zvolen basin 14 km east of Zvolen. The ruins of the Vígľaš Chateau rise on the left bank of Slatina, dire...

Etelka is the iron heart of Gemer. The blast furnace was built in 1867 by Count Emanuel Andrássy, who named it after his mother. Thanks to the steelworks, iron production...

On the outskirts of the village of Vlachovo, in the local forest, preserved the historically valuable area of the former Andrássy mansion with the rest of the otherwise l...

If you want to see with your own eyes and feel for yourself what kind of way of life and living was led by traditional mining family, head straight to the village Vyšná B...

The village of Ľubietová is connected with mining history and metallurgy. If you want to learn more about this golden history of Ľubietová, but also about traditional cra...

Modern two-storey gallery with spacious garden presents the work of national artist Ján Kulich. The exposition of his works is changed every year in individual thematic c...