The two-storey manor house has a U-type floor plan. The two wings on the east side enclose the courtyard and on the west side there are two square towers with round arches. There is a well in the courtyard and the granary building ends it from the outside. An arched underpass leads to the courtyard, ending in a risalit with three arches. In the years 1745-1747, the manor house was rebuilt into a Renaissance-Baroque complex with a defensive function.Renaissance architectural details and mansard roofs on the corners and saddle roofs on the remaining parts of the building have been preserved. Rectangular windows have stone shutters and cornices. The interior is dominated by rooms with rolled lunette vaults.

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Using the oval surface of the ridge, on a platform measuring approximately 10x15 m, a wooden tower-like building was first built, in the 13th century it was rebuilt into a 5x8 m stone tower. The foundation walls of this building were still visible in the 1950s. The locals dismantled the tower into building materials.The interior of the castle was once surrounded by a stone wall, which can still be seen in fragments on the northern and eastern edges of the hill. The castle was surrounded by a double moat and rampart. The first ridge wall had a diameter of 45 to 50 meters, while the second, almost circular wall had a diameter of 60 to 70 meters.

Slovenské Pravno

The masonry of the western tower has been preserved, which still rises to a great height even today and has slotted loopholes. The upper castle is clamped between two towers. On the farm buildings in the lower castle, the challenging blocking is completely preserved and the remnants of the walls of these buildings provide a truly spectacular view.The castle consisted of a long, relatively narrow palace, strengthened on the north and south sides by semicircular towers, protected on the northeast side by a steep abyss. The western tower, built in a more vulnerable place, is much more massive and larger than the eastern one. It was made accessible by a separate spiral staircase, built on its southern side. On the southeast, more accessible side, a small courtyard was enclosed by walls with a quadrilateral tower. The wall of fortifications that surrounded the first courtyard had an entrance over a ditch cut into the rock in the west. It was protected by an open round bastion.

Blatnica

The castle consisted of a lower and an upper castle. It had a brick fortification and stretched at the edges of the top ridge. The considerably damaged originally prismatic tower with shooting ranges on the ground floor has been preserved, which was built to protect the road from Turiec to Ponitrie. The 14th-century two-storey building below has preserved corner stone blocks and the remains of a tarry nose on the north side.Of the later buildings, only the small turret attached to the elongated building on the east side has been preserved.

Zniev

The manor is a block building with a square floor plan and has two corner, prismatic towers. It has Renaissance windows with a stone shambrana and wrought iron bars, on the east side there is a small bay window ending in an attic. Above the entrance is an inscription board, which shows that the manor house was built by Andrej Justh.The manor has a preserved Renaissance layout with a large entrance hall. The rooms have Renaissance vaults and flat ceilings.

Necpaly

The manor was originally a four-winged building with four massive prismatic corner towers. At the end of the 18th century, it was remodeled in the Baroque style and acquired a three-winged appearance. During the construction of the manor, they used the block construction of an older manor house (fortress) from the 16th century. There is an arcade corridor in the courtyard. The manor house was surrounded by a moat, accessible via a drawbridge in front of the Renaissance portal. The portal is made of massive stone blocks and has oval coats of arms under the forked gable on the sides and a plastic head above the arch.The rooms are arranged in a row, they are vaulted with renaissance ridge cross vaults and barrel vaults with lunettes. The facades are smooth, divided by windows with stone shutters, as well as corner sgraffito fittings.

Trebostovo

The dominant feature of the town and of the castle complex is the two-nave church of St. Catherine. The town castle is reconstructed and maintained. The area of the town castle has been a national cultural monument since 1970. It consists of the following objects:St. Catherine's church – originally a two-aisled late Gothic church from the mid-15th century was rebuilt from an older building from the 14th century. The church burnt down in 1560. The almost square hall two-aisled church with a south and north chapel has a sanctuary vaulted by a net vault. The double nave of the church has an astride vault with stone ribs and neo-Gothic strip painted decoration. The northern and southern oratories are accessible by a spiral stone staircase. The interior of the church is neo-Gothic from 1885, wing altars - the main (St. Catherine) and four side altars are richly decorated and gilded. The fortification of the castle is Gothic, built at the end of the 14th century as a double wall with a gate and three bastions. During Storn's restoration the walls were considerably lowered and topped with dulcimer. The fortification of the castle is followed by the fortification of the town.North Gate (Entrance Gate) – originally there was a deep moat bridged by a wooden Gothic drawbridge, later replaced by a brick. The entrance tower with a gate from the 14th century is incorporated into the castle system. The prismatic four-storey tower itself with a passage on the ground floor has crevice holes on the outside of the basement. To date, only the front wall together with the so-called pitch nose, a hole that poured pitch or hot oil onto the enemy was preserved. The northern tower consists of three floors. The lower floor was occupied by a man who took care of the castle grounds, and on the first and highest floors the guards guarded the northern entrance. On the southern facade is restored part of renaissance plasters, these are preserved in the interior.Karner of St. Ondrej – is the oldest building of the castle - from the mid-13th century. It is a two-storey circular building built in the late Romanesque and Gothic style, which consists of two parts - chapel and ossuary. The lower part of the carner was a ossuary with a Romanesque six-part vault with unprofessional stone ribs and a hexagonal bolt into which bones dug in the graveyard from older graves were placed. The upper part is from the 14th century Gothic, with Gothic stone elements and in the interior with restored wall paintings of miners and saints.Small (clock) tower – on the west side of the complex - it also dates back to the 14th century and has four floors separated by stone ledges. Baroque bells are located in the tower. Temporarily the tower was called the clock tower, when on the penultimate floor a clock was placed.Staircase bastion – entrance castle staircase and southern tower. Roofed stairs were added in the last third of the 18th century to the older base of the tower. There are bells placed in the upper rooms.Old Town Hall – originally four-storey residential tower of rectangular shape originated from the end of the 14th century, was built between the walls. After the fire, the town hall moved to the city. The undermined area of the part below the town in the 19th century and the subsequent landslide after the earthquake in 1879 caused that some buildings - even in the castle - were damaged, but most of all the town hall. Subsequently, in 1887, two floors of the town hall were removed for static reasons and finished with a dulcimer.Miner's bastion –  on the eastern side, it has a semicircular foundation on which the polygonal superstructure stands. On the outer - southeast side is built stone coat of arms of the city. The bastion was rebuilt in the 15th century, most probably it was the rest of the chapel.

Kremnica

The castle area is surrounded by a moat. The form and extent of the early medieval castle are unknown, because its structures were modified during the later construction activity. This is one of the reasons why the remains of the high medieval stone castle from the 13th to the 14th century in the form of a perimeter wall and a part of the younger palace were uncovered only during research in 1994. The wall ended with a crenellation defined the area of the castle core of an oval ground plan, situated at the top of the hoop, while the palace annexed to the wall in the east retained only the northern wall with the entrance portal. To date, the best preserved is the northern prism tower with the passage of the main entrance gate and the second prism tower in the east, oriented towards the settlement below castle.The last builder was the Pálffy family. Similarly to other buildings in the country, they started a significant early baroque building activity, which was later respected by later reconstructions and alterations due to its high artistic value. Most of the castle's buildings gained a neo-gothic appearance with a new plastering block and a defensive items, while the interior was romantically and fundamentally rebuilt. The sudden death of Pállfy caused that the overall intent of the reconstruction was not completed, so the northern flank and the adjacent gate tower have kept its older baroque appearance.The concept of romantic reconstruction of the castle was also applied in the interiors of the building, according to the romantic ideas based on the medieval atmosphere of the 19th century. There are ensembles of neo-gothic style furnishings, salons, bedrooms, various rooms as well as older historical spaces, which complete the historical furniture, paintings and objects of handicrafts.

Bojnice castle

A large part of the masonry of the chapel with Gothic vaults, parts of the tower and palaces, farm buildings, fortifications, bastions and mansions are preserved. The lining of Gothic, originally broken windows, remains of plaster and several Renaissance architectural details are preserved on the chapel.The oldest part of the castle is the upper castle with an irregular ground plan with an inner courtyard, which was gradually built up by residential and farm buildings. The dominant feature was a massive prismatic tower, situated on the highest point of the hill. The castle was rebuilt in 1460-1480 and expanded to the dam on the northern side, which was later fortified by two polygonal bastions. In r.1554 was completed second bail protected by bastion.