Culture & Arts
Banská Štiavnica is a town where history meets a rich cultural and artistic scene.
Its lanes breathe history, yet pulse with contemporary life. The town has plenty of museums and galleries that bring its rich history and art closer to visitors – from the Open-air Mining Museum, where you can experience the authentic atmosphere of mining life, to modern galleries showcasing contemporary art. Throughout the year, Banská Štiavnica hosts numerous festivals celebrating music, theatre, literature and film.
The historic town centre is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is home to many monuments, such as the Old Castle and the New Castle, St Catherine’s Church and the Calvary. Each of these buildings tells its own story and adds to the town’s unique atmosphere. If you’re looking for interactive experiences, there are exhibitions such as the Bank of Love, where you can discover the longest love poem in the world, or the Glanzenberg Hereditary Adit, which takes you underground right beneath the town. Banská Štiavnica is a place where everyone finds something to enjoy – whether you are a history or art lover, or just looking for new experiences.
The amateur puppet theatre was founded in the 1980s, back when Jozef Horák was working in the village of Podhorie. The local amateur actors used wooden […]
This small museum exhibition shows the traditional life and work of the people of Baďan in times gone by. It is furnished with old furniture, folk […]
The village of Beluj has turned an old barn into a folk heritage room that shows you how people lived and worked in the village in […]
Podhorie may be a small village, but it hides several sights that are well worth seeing. One of them is a typical folk room of a […]
Excellent brooms for sweeping up leaves, clearing snow in a harsh winter or just everyday sweeping come from Baďan. Baďan birch brooms have been made for […]
One of the most beautiful Baroque Calvaries in Europe stands on a cone-shaped hill right at the heart of the crater of the Štiavnica stratovolcano, and […]
The castle complex is one of the oldest monuments in town. A Romanesque parish church originally stood here, and after the Ottoman invasion it was rebuilt […]
The Marian Column was erected in 1748 on the site of an older town hall chapel from the early 16th century. At the top stands a […]
The statue of Štiavnický Nácko appeared on the ”trotuár” (promenade) in Banská Štiavnicain October 2013. Standing 160 cm tall, it is a symbolic portrait of Nácko, […]