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
Zobor Hillfort
Castle ruins

Zobor Hillfort is the oldest and most extensive monument near the city of Nitra. It is also a national cultural monument.

The hillfort s bordered by a defensive wall, al...

Nitra
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
12.7 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
14.9 km
Gýmeš Castle
Castle ruins

The ruins of Gýmeš Castle are situated on the steep Dúň hill, about 5 km from the village of Jelenec. In the past, it was the center of the surrounding Gýmeš County (Hung...

Jelenec
15.9 km
Oponice Castle
Castle ruins

The Oponice Castle - more accurate ruins of the castle - is located on the western tip of the mountain of Tribeč above the village of Oponice. The first written mention o...

Oponice
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
23.6 km
Black Castle (Čierny hrad)
Castle ruins

Not far from the village of Zlatno, on the wooded outcrop of the mountain of Tríbeč, there used to stand the Black Castle (orig. "Čierny hrad"), which protected mainly th...

Zlatno
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
31.2 km
Hrušov Castle
Castle ruins

North of the famous wine-growing village of Topoľčianky, the ruins of the Hrušov castle have been standing for centuries. Its remnants of massive walls and towers rise up...

Hostie
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
33.7 km
Mariánska Čeľaď Monastery
Castle ruins

In a dense forest, in the wasteland of Mariánská Čeľaď, near the villages of Podhájska and Veľké Lovce, there are ruins of the old monastery of Paulists. The colossal bui...

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
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
36.1 km
Ruins of the church on Vrchhora
Castle ruins

The mysterious Tribeč Mountains offer unique places with a rich history. Such a place is Vrchhora, where the remains of a Renaissance church and a Baroque chapel are hidd...

Veľký Klíž
36.2 km
Živánska tower in Cigánska Valley
Castle ruins

In the beautiful surroundings of the Cigánska Valley, which separates the mountains Tribeč and Pohronský Inovec, there are remnants of the Živánská Tower. Once a massive ...

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