Things to do and tourist attractions in Nitra and surroundings

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Nitra Region Museum - Nitra City Hall
Museums and history

The Nitra Region Museum is an institution of homeland nature. Its collecting activities focus mainly on botany, zoology, archeology, history, ethnography and numismatics ...

Nitra
Statue of Corgoň
Museums and history

Like many Slovak towns and villages, Nitra has an interesting folk-tale, which talks about a huge strongman Corgoň, who averted the Turkish invasion of Nitra Castle. The ...

Nitra
Mission Museum
Museums and history

Just below the hill, on which the Calvary in Nitra - a popular spiritual, sightseeing and tourist place of the locals - stands, there is the Missionary House of the Mothe...

Nitra
Slovak Agricultural Museum in Nitra
Museums and history

The Slovak Agricultural Museum was founded in 1922 in Bratislava. Its seat was the building, which is currently used by the Slovak National Museum. Only in 1960 was the s...

Nitra
Svorad's Cave
Caves

The oldest known cave of Nitra is the one, which is located on the western tip of the rather low peak of Zobor. Its name is Cave of Svorad. It got its name, as well as th...

Nitra
7.0 km
Lookout tower on Hôrka Hill
Lookouts

If you find yourself in the vicinity of the city of Nitra and have a sunny day, you should definetely pull out your boots and hike to the not very high hill of Hôrka, whe...

Podhorany
12.2 km
Museum of Socialism and Cold War
Museums and history

Alekšince, a small village in Nitra region, can boast of a unique rarity in the Slovak territory . At a depth of seven meters below the ground, there is the Museum of Soc...

Alekšince
12.5 km
Lookout Tower Radošinka
Lookouts

Radošinka Lookout Tower on the border of villages Čab, Šurianky and Nové Sady provides tourists with truly unusual views. Its task is also promoting the potential of tour...

Čab
12.7 km
Museum of Forgach Family
Museums and history

In the beautiful village of Jelenec, near Nitra, there is a ground baroque mansion. It was built in 1722 by Bishop Paul IV. Forgach. The Forgach family lived and stayed t...

Jelenec
17.4 km
Aponnyi Historical Library
Museums and history

The Aponnyi Library of Oponice is a divine paradise for all bookworms as well as history lovers. The library is the most beautiful interior library in Slovakia, which ho...

Oponice
18.1 km
Apponyi's Hunting Museum
Museums and history

A rare historical building in the picturesque village of Oponice is a Renaissance mansion dating from the 16th-17th century. The locals also call it Small Chateau. It use...

Oponice
21.9 km
Observation tower Požitavie - Širočina
Lookouts

If you are not exactly lover of long hikes, but you are attracted by the idea of a great view of the surroundings, without a challenging climb to a steep hill, this looko...

Nevidzany
22.3 km
Lookout tower Žitavský luh
Lookouts

On the edge of the Žitavský luh nature reserve, right next to the road between the villages of Veľká Maňa and Žitavce, there is a wooden lookout tower Žitavský luh. It is...

Maňa
23.8 km
House of folk housing and architecture (temporarily closed)
Museums and history

THE HOUSE OF FOLK HOUSING AND ARCHITECTURE IN ŠALI IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR TECHNICAL REASONS.

In the middle of a housing estate with blocks of flats in the town of Šaľ...

Šaľa
24.4 km
Mausoleum and park of the Migazzi family
Museums and history

In the town of Zlaté Moravce, in the park called by the locals Lipipark, there is the Mausoleum of the Migazzi family. The mausoleum was built in 1887 in the Neo-Romanesq...

Zlaté Moravce
24.9 km
Homeland Museum
Museums and history

Homeland Museum in Hlohovec is a typical regional museum of homeland character. It was founded in 1959 and since then has expanded its collection to include subjects of s...

Hlohovec
26.0 km
Municipal Museum
Museums and history

The historical building of the Fándly's Parish in Sereď is now the seat of the Municipal Museum. It opened its doors for visitors and history lovers for the first time in...

Sereď
26.1 km
Šurany Synagogue
Museums and history

The orthodox synagogue in Šurany belongs to the jewels of synagogue architecture in Slovakia. The Jewish community of Šurany was built it in 1916. During the 1990s, the i...

Šurany
27.4 km
Holocaust Museum
Museums and history

The Museum of Holocaust in Sereď is part of the Slovak National Museum - Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava. The museum is located in the authentic premises of the fo...

Sereď
28.0 km
Tribeč Museum in Topoľčany
Museums and history

The Museum in Topoľčany was founded in 1961. The first permanent exhibition of the museum was opened in 1964 and its content was anthropology. Throughout its history, the...

Topoľčany
29.3 km
Archaeological Museum of Great Moravia
Museums and history

The village of Bojná is known for being an important princely center of the old Slavs in the past. The former economic and political center of the Pribinian Principality ...

Bojná
29.6 km
Homeland Museum
Museums and history

If you find yourself in Galanta or in surroundings of this town, we recommend you to stop for a moment in the Homeland Museum, which reveals the town's history and enrich...

Galanta
30.3 km
Čertova pec (Devil's furnace)
Museums and history

Enthusiasts of trips in the little-known corners of our Slovak nature will surely be pleased by the location of Čertova pec (Devil's furnace). It is a cave created by dol...

Radošina
32.5 km
Outlook tower on Marhát
Lookouts

The tourist lookout tower on the hill of Marhát was built in 2008, by municipalities associated in the organization called Microregion under Marhát - especially by the m...

Nitrianska Blatnica
33.2 km
Great and Small Dolnosokolská Cave
Caves

One of the publicly accessible caves in the Považský Inovec mountain range is the Great and Small Dolnosokolská Cave. These are two fissure caves in one created in the fo...

Hubina
33.6 km
House of folk housing Veľké Lovce
Museums and history

In the charming village of Veľké Lovce,there is a traditional, multi-generation, clay farm house, which is a prime example of the skill and imagination of its owner, Mr. ...

Veľké Lovce
33.9 km
Slavic hillfort of Valy
Museums and history

Near the town of Piešťany, there is the largest Slavic archaeological site in Slovakia - Valy in Bojná. This specific and extremely interesting location is kind of Slovak...

Bojná
34.7 km
Lookout tower on Drieňova Hill
Lookouts

Deforested hill of Drieňová above the village Jedľové Kostoľany offers itself a beautiful circular views of the wide surroundings. Obviously, thanks to this advantageous ...

Jedľové Kostoľany
35.6 km
Ivan Krasko Memorial Room
Museums and history

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Slovak poet Ivan Krasko, in 1976, the Balneology Museum of Imrich Winter opened a new exhibition - Memorial R...

Piešťany
35.9 km
Balneology Museum Kúpeľná dvorana (Spa Hall)
Museums and history

The most famous Slovak spa town, Piešťany, boasts of the unique Balneological Museum of Imrich Winter, founded in 1931 thanks to the Piešťany Museum Society and the Winte...

Piešťany