Things to do and tourist attractions in Moravský Svätý Ján and surroundings

The origin of the national sanctuary - the Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Šaštín dates back to 1736, when the present basilica, according to the plans of Matej ...

Borský Mikuláš is the birthplace of the poet Ján Hollý. In the middle of the village, you can find his native house from the second half of the 18th century. In 1957, it ...

The Parish Church of the Most Holy Trinity is located in Malacky. It is one of the oldest preserved buildings in Malacky. It was once the center of Malacky itself.

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The Michal Tillner Museum is a city museum based on the initiative of academic painter Michal Tillner in 1975. The museum was housed in a renovated water mill in Malacky,...

If you want to get to know the folk culture and traditions of South Záhorie, the Michal Tillner Museum is the right place for you. It is located in Malacky in the buildin...

A beautiful manor house in Malacky used to be the seat of the Pallfy family. The building was built on the initiative of Count Paul IV. Palffy in the first half of the 17...

You may not even know, but you can also find synagogues in Slovakia. And there is not only few of them. Many of them are in a well-preserved state and are listed in the C...

The charming sacral monument,* the Franciscan Monastery and the Church*, can be found in Malacky. However, at the site of today's Franciscan church, there was a Renaissan...

The Chapel of the Holy Steps was built on the order of Pavel Pálfi together with the monastery. There are three holy steps in the world. In Rome, there are the original o...

The underground beneath the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Malacky conceals ancient crypts. This underground was built about 350 years ago by the Franciscans for ...

Throughout western Slovakia, there are scattered communities called reoptants from Ukraine, who returned to their homeland after several decades of displacement from east...

Holíč Megaliths (also known as Menhirs) are carved stones stored in a lapidary in the courtyard of one of the former manufactory buildings. They come from a prehistoric r...

The town of Senica has been located at the crossroads of trade routes since prehistoric times. From the north to the south, the "Amber Road" ran along the Morava River, a...

Jozef Miloslav Hurban was the first chairman of the Slovak National Council, a Slovak writer, journalist, politician and organizer of the cultural life of the Slovak nati...

Above the village of Smolenice, in the dense forests of the Little Carpathians, there used to be a prehistoric and a Slavic hillfort. Choosing this place for a trip bring...

The village of Smolenice, situated under the south-eastern foothills of the Little Carpathians, offers domestic people and tourists not only recreational but also rich cu...

The birth of museum activities in the sense of organizing collecting activities in 1881 - 1898 prompted the establishment of the Záhorie Museum in Skalica. It is a region...

The town of Skalica boasts of a diverse tangle of sacral buildings with a rich history. Under many of them, underground crypts ar built, but not all are explored and made...

Rotunda of St. George is originally a Romanesque building from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries (although a new study says it comes from the first half of the 11th...

At the highest point in the northern part of the town of Skalica, there is a beautiful classicist calvary. It was built by the Jesuits in 1703-1710 on the site of the ori...

ZOYA Gallery&Museum presents the art of Slovak visual modernism as well as contemporary Slovak and world authors. These are basically two institutions - the ZOYA Gallery ...

The Museum of the Slovak Ceramic Sculpture is located in close proximity to the walls from the 17th century town fortifications and the courtyard is connected to the nort...

The Ľudovít Štúr Museum in Modra is part of the Slovak National Museum. It has its seat in the very center of the town, in the so-called Emreszovský House. It was right i...

In the town of Pezinok, there is a historic rural settlement, dominated by the construction of a Baroque water mill. It is the largest creek mill in Europe. In 1767, it w...

Marianka is the oldest pilgrimage site in Slovakia. In the local beech tree, there is a beautiful pilgrimage area called the Holy Valley. There is an extremely peaceful a...

Pezinok Castle is a historical and architectural jewel of the wine-growing town of Pezinok. Interestingly, Pezinok Castle is often referred to as the "Water Castle" becau...

In the historical heart of Pezinok, there is a Renaissance town hall building. It was built in the middle of the 17th century on the site of the town spa and Weltz House....

The Small Carpathian museum in Pezinok is focused on the wine-growing and wine-growing tradition of the Small Carpathian region. More than half a century it is collecting...

The Trnava village of Naháč is known for the work of the enlightened writer and pastor Juraj Fándly, who lived here for a part of his life. Juraj Fándly lived and worked ...

In the past, Slovakia could boast of a rich network of shorter, but also longer, forest, field, mining or industrial railways, which were used in freight transport at the...