Historical monuments of Prešov

Neptune´s fountainJewis people were not very

welcomed in Prešov in the past. The first written mention about them is from the year 1530. The break point happened only in the 18. century when the first Jewish citizen settled inside the city, businessman Mark Holländer. Being thankful from the given trust he had built the Neptun´s fountain on the square. Till today it is on of the most beautiful and important sights of the town. In the middle of town square is the imposing Neptune Fountain and a group of statues.

Neptune´s fountain is the only original town cistern that is well-preserved.

Town HallNext to the Neptun´s fountain in the

centre of Hlavná Street stands Prešov´s Town Hall. Original rich house from the 16th century was lately rebuilt in the baroque style. The town hall was a luxurious townsman's house in the Middle Age.

It was rebuilt to a city winery in the beginning of the 16th century and was used for these purposes for more than two centuries. After several rebuilding, some vaults have been preserved from this period. A considerable reconstruction was made after the fire in 1768. It was finished in 1788 when it resembled a late Baroque style building with typical facades, high windows and a balcony. Town Hall was added to the list of the national cultural sights in 1961.

Palace Klobusiczsky The palace originated in the mid 18th century,

on the five medieval plots on the square (originally the Hungarian Street) which were bought at the end of the last century by the Earl Francis Klobusiczky. The Klobusiczky Palace was completed in 1756. The facade facing the street was heavily decorated by wonderful stucco scenes and ornamentation, and a Klobusiczky family coats-of-arms situated above the main portal is the most unique feature.

A large adjacent park in the east was situated there and reached the city walls. The garden was built according to the French garden's model. Early 19th century the first German theatre in Prešov was seated in this building. The palace was olyfunctional in the 19th and the 20th centuries it served as the barracks for the military corps located in Prešov.

Caraffa´s prisonA late-Gothic building dating from the

16th century. It is located on the Main Street. This gothic building with thick pillars and typical gothic shield in the front is only reared medieval building in Prešov. The prison was given its name according to Caesarean general Antonio Caraffa from Naples, who gave verdict, 24 Hungarian yeomen and burghers were executed.

It functioned as a town armoury for some time, and as a town prison in the second half of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the building started to serve for archiving municipal written documents, with the exception of the World War II period. In the late 1944, the complete archives of Prešov were moved to Opava because of war events.

CalvaryThe hill on the western outskirts of Prešov

complex is dominated by Baroque Calvary. In the past, it is considered the second most beautiful Calvary in the territory of Hungary. Establishment Presov Calvary is closely linked to the functioning of the Jesuits.

Chapel of the Cross were set up since 1721 until 1893rd All have a similar shape with a gable front, decorated with ornaments and houses a remarkable assembly coat of arms and semicircular arched entrance portal with richly decorated lattice. It described the shape of the second dominant departed Calvary, Chapel of the Holy Steps. It was built in Form 1765 Chapel Sancti Scala in Lateran Church in Rome.The construction financed Prince Radziwill.

Bosáková BankThe present corner of Main Street and

Levocska was r. 1923-1924 built Secession building, originally designed for financial institution. Its construction led Ing. V. Glasz. The building has a dome covered corners. The front facade was created decoration called Peace and love, wealth, thrift and Science. The back wing on the street today Levocska allegory of the four seasons under her relief steamer, steam locomotives and aircraft.

The name given to Michael Bosak (1869-1937), Slovak emigrants from the Round, which is a short time developed into one of the leading U.S. bankers.

Department of Sancti Maria

On the street Konštantínova in Prešov Konštantínova are two school buildings from the late 19th century. The first is the storey building in historical style with the Madonna statue in a corner niche, today's School of Konštantínova street. It was built in r. 1882 as the seat of the Order of British virgins.

In the following years, the Institute further expanded at the turn of the century, it has also served the original religious house: a four-year girl's school, a four-year school girls burgess, six-year higher school girls and college girls.

With no big problems are then transformed in the new government and the school system after year 1918th.

Cathedral of St. NicholasIn the widest part of this peculiar

polygon, the Roman Catholic Church of St Nicholas towers over all else. It is the largest religious building in the city at 55 metres long, 35 metres wide and with a 71 metre-high tower. Inside, its Baroque-topped, Gothic-based altar is primarily the work of the home-town carver Ján Weiss, although the ubiquitous Master Paul of Levoca also makes a contribution, providing one of only three sculptures that remain from the original Gothic adornments.

Visitors can climb the stairs of the tower for a panoramic view of the city and - on a fine day - the surrounding hill-top castles.

Rákoczi PalaceInfluential Rákoczi family left its

traces not only in Košice but in Prešov as well. During the anti – Habsburg uprising a lot of political meetings took place here, such as the meeting of Juraj Rákoczi with the emperor Ferdinand; František II. Rákoczi made this palace his residence during the mentioned uprisings.

Located in the historic Rákoczi Palace in the centre of Prešov, Prešov Regional Museum originated in 1945 as a Municipal Museum, later becoming a Regional Museum and from 1961 the Museum of the Slovak Council Republic.

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Lenka KavuľováMichaela JurčišinováDaniela Gregová 1.B