Things to do and tourist attractions in Rimavská Baňa 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...

The lookout tower at Maginhrad is one of the newly built lookout towers in Slovakia. It stands on a hill of the same name at an altitude of 430 meters and thanks to its h...

On the boundary of villages of Klenovec and Kokava nad Rimavicou, there is a lookout tower called Slopovo. It stands at an altitude of 851 meters in the beautiful surroun...

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 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 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...

Observation towers attract many tourists every year. Several of them are located also in the Banská Bystrica Region, and new ones are continuously being built every year ...

Once you decide to explore the forests around the village of Rákoš, you will undoubtedly find the ruins of the castle with the same name. Rákoš Castle used to be a magnif...

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...

The dominating feature of the Zbojská saddle is a magnificent lookout tower revolving around the folk architecture. The perfect rural atmosphere is enhanced by the ubiqui...

In the village of Širkovce, in a very hilly terrain, there used to stand the medieval castle named Kapla also known as Širkovce Castle. It was known for many years only f...

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 ...

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...

The third highest located castle in Slovakia is situated on the Cigánka Boulder on the outskirts of the untouched nature of the Muránska Plain.

What is today a castle ru...

The ruins of the Gothic Castle of Divín are located directly in the village of Divín.

Divín Castle was built in the 13th century. In the 16th century, the castle was sei...

Directly above the houses of the village of Šurice, there are the remains of the Soví hrad (Owl Castle) on the high cliff. The history of the castle is unclear. In the li...

Hajnáčka is the name of the castle ruin at the village of the same name, which is surrounded by the beauty of Cerovská Uplands.

The village originated from the settlemen...

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...

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...

Not far from the small village of Ľupoč, there is a wooden viewing platform at a place called Vinny vrch. It is situated on the edge of the forest and offers wonderful vi...

The ruins of Šomoška Castle are located about 10 km south of Fiľakovo, in the immediate vicinity of the Slovak - Hungarian state border. It is named after the Hungarian v...

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...

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...

Karanč Hill is located in the volcanic mountain range of Cerova vrchovina, which lies on the border with Hungary. With its altitude of 727 m above sea level, it can boast...

The Horné Lazy observation tower is one of the highest observation towers in Slovakia. It is an impressive almost 40 m high, and when climbing to its top, you will overco...

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...