About Us

We primarily focus on the period from the High Middle Ages (11th century) to the beginning of the Early Modern period (16th–17th centuries), including Gothic and Renaissance architecture.

• Castles and châteaux – all preserved and maintained castles, often open to the public, with museums or exhibitions. This category also includes châteaux – representative aristocratic residences, usually rebuilt castles or grand manor houses commonly referred to as châteaux. Urban castles are also included.
  Examples: Orava Castle, Halič, Banská Bystrica
• Castle ruins – extensive remains of castles with preserved walls, towers or other architectural elements rising several metres above ground level.
  Examples: Šariš Castle, Pustý hrad (Zvolen), Beckov
• Wall remains – partially preserved above-ground fragments of castles, usually walls in a continuous length of at least 1 metre. These sites are in an advanced state of decay but still visible in the landscape.
  Examples: Bukovec, Jasov, Zemplín
• Monasteries – fortified or formerly fortified monastic complexes and their ruins, including unfortified ones if they have historical or defensive significance.
  Examples: Kláštorisko, Katarínka, Hronský Beňadik
• Fortresses – Early Modern fortification complexes designed primarily for military purposes, typically bastioned or polygonal fortresses.
  Examples: Komárno Fortress, Leopoldov, Nové Zámky
• Manor houses and fortified mansions – Renaissance and Gothic manor houses, fortified noble residences, buildings constructed on the site of earlier castles with defensive features, so-called “castle manors”, including their ruins.
  Examples: Borša, Krivany, Strážky
• Fortified residences and castellum – smaller fortified noble residences that were neither full castles nor manor houses. They may take the form of a castellum or fortified courts.
  Examples: Figa, Holumnica, Dúbravica
• Watchtowers – standalone stone watchtowers, guard towers or signal towers from the medieval and early modern periods, used for territorial defence or signalling.
  Examples: Živánska Tower, Krupina Watchtower, Nový zámok
• Vanished castles – historically documented castles from which no above-ground masonry has survived. Only terrain features such as earthworks, ditches or small masonry fragments may be visible (these are covered only marginally by the project).
  Examples: Maginhrad, Soví hrad, Žakýl

Not our primary focus, but may exceptionally appear on the site:

Early Slavic hillforts and timber-earth fortifications, later unfortified manor houses and mansions, monasteries without ruins or defensive features, as well as city walls and the above-mentioned vanished castles.