Banská Bystrica Castle

Banská Bystrica Castle (Slovak: Mestský hrad v Banskej Bystrici; also referred to as a Barbican) is a castle located in the centre of Banská Bystrica in Slovakia.

It is a part of a complex that features several other buildings. The city castle complex consists of the Church of the Virgin Mary, Matthew's House, the Slovak Church, the town hall, the rectory building and a stone fortification with bastions, an entrance gate with a barbican, through which the area was entered. The oldest building is the late Romanesque parish church of the Virgin Mary from the second half of the 13th century. It was originally surrounded by a cemetery, on which a Romanesque ossuary stood until the 19th century.

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Banská Bystrica Castle ranks #3,047 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #34 of the 136 mapped in Slovakia. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Banská Bystrica, 1 km away. See how Slovakia compares in the castle statistics.

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