Piarg Gate was built at the same time as the New Castle to protect the road into Banská Štiavnica from Pukanec against the Ottomans.
Fortification walls and bastions adjoined the gate on both sides. Before the Second World War, when the gate’s narrow passage could no longer cope with growing traffic, the wall on one side was removed to make way for a new road. The gate was restored in 2021.
