About us

Our achievements

- project exists already 25 years, since then it has undergone many changes and acquired its current form in 2016

- project hrady-zamky.sk is stored in the archives of the University Library as part of a long-term protection of intangible cultural heritage in the form of digital sources and documents

- under the auspices of the National Institute of Education and Youth (NIVaM) our project was chosen as a source for the Primary School History Olympiad, 16th year, school year 2023/2024

- our mobile applications Slovak Castles and Slovak Castles PREMIUM won multiple awards for the Best Slovak application in the 4ka Android Code competition

- in cooperation with the professional photographer M. Hajkovský, the book Slovenské hrady a zámky was published with a QR code link to the castles on our website

- we personally visited every single place, that is on our website, processed detailed information, thereby significantly contributed to the development of tourism and the promotion of monuments in the territory of today's Slovakia

Focus of the project

Primary focus:

• castles and chateaux, town castles
• ruins of castles, sites of former castles with above-ground remains of walls
• fortresses, stone watchtowers and bastions
• monasteries with fortifications, ruins of monasteries
• Renaissance and Gothic manor houses, fortified manors, castellum, manor houses built on the foundations of a castle or on the site of a former castle or other fortification and their ruins

Not our focus, but may occasionally appear on the site:

• vanished castles, without above-ground remains of masonry (ramparts or traces of the terrain)
• hillforts, wooden castles
• manor houses and manors younger than the Renaissance period, without elements of fortification, or not built on the sites of older buildings
• monasteries that are not ruins or that do not have elements of fortification
• city walls and fortifications