The castle has a square ground plan. Its three-storey perimeter walls have slotted loopholes and rests of Renaissance semicircular label attic. We know very little about this ruin, and even the castle is not mentioned in most cases by literature. That is why speculation appears, whether it was a castle at all. The building does not correspond either to architecture or typologically medieval fortification. The object in Holumnica is a block-tower-free building that could also serve as an aristocratic mansion - a mansion, which had an under-roofed space - in a semi-circular attic slots.The surrounding area is densely overgrown with vegetation, which largely covers the ruins. This suggests that the walls have fallen long ago. On the southeast side of the building is a ridge that can hide debris and remains of walls. There are traces of the porch on the front wall, niches are visible from the inside. Somewhere on the walls are preserved plaster.

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The town castle in Podolínec was approx. 70x40 m. It consisted of a palace and farm buildings surrounded by a stone defensive wall. A massive tower with a gate provided access to the courtyard. The foundations of the tower are marked in the pavement in front of the municipal office. The walls surrounded the entire medieval city with a trapezoid shape. There were built bastions and two main gates (Lower and Upper). The fortification was strengthened by a moat, fed from the arm of the river Poprad. Drawbridges led through the moat.The castle stood on the site of today's municipal office and east of it. The current office building is one floor lower than the original castle and undoubtedly contains part of the walls of the original palace. From the city walls remained a continuous belt in the south of the city. The gates were demolished, but up to eight bastions remained. The best preserved are three horseshoe bastions south and one north of the former lower gate and another four near the Piarist monastery. The two upper gate guard towers and the bastion at the entrance to the monastery were reconstructed.

Podolínec

In the courtyard of the castle there is a late Gothic palace with original stone windows. In the area of the courtyard is marked the ground plan of the church of St.Elizabeth and the fortifications disposition of former palaces, of which only the remains of wall paintings in the window openings. A characteristic feature is the prismatic entrance gate, the towers and the bastion of the fortification with sgraffito decoration, finished with a Renaissance label attic. In a small park behind the castle, a part of the barbican of the city fortifications has been preserved, which followed the fortification of the castle.The first expositions of the Kežmarok Museum were opened in a part of the chateau complex in 1931. Currently visitors can view the exhibited collections such as prehistoric and medieval settlement of Kežmarok, Development of Kežmarok, Kežmarok shooting association etc.

Kežmarok castle

The oldest core of the castle was a narrow longitudinal palace at the end of the central summit and the courtyard in front of it. The tower added to its western forehead additionally and for the period even illogically attached, but before it had to initially probably rounded wall. Conical tower has a space with a diameter of 6.5 m and walls almost 3m thick, so they could be used for housing, but the absence of firing chambers and loopholes and position above the entrance surprisingly ranks to bergfrits (bergfrit - round main tower of the castle). The buildings have been preserved peripheral masonry to a considerable height and the Gothic palace remains of the Renaissance attic and Renaissance lining windows and cornice. On the second courtyard, they added a building to the gate with an undercut and the defense of the castle was provided by a large cannon bastion in the east and a cannon bastion in the west. The last, third courtyard is directed to the SE in front of a large bastion and protects the entrance to the premises.In the preserved part of the castle there is a museum, which includes: historical exposition, exposition of period furniture and cool weapons and exposition acquainting visitors with the life and pedigree of the last owners of the castle - the Zamoy family. There is also an exhibition room in the castle, where there are exhibitions every season. Barrel and Prussian vaults have been preserved in some rooms, and a torture chamber has been preserved underground. Among the preserved parts of the castle is the castle chapel.

Ľubovňa castle

In the area of the monastery there are original stone gothic ribs with baroque polychrome, late gothic terracotta vault is in the refectory, where Gothic wall paintings have been preserved. There is a terracotta gothic cross vault in the underpass connecting the inner courtyard with the outer courtyard. In the rooms of the former monastery, the Renaissance vaults are cross or rolled with lunettes and in the reconstructed and restored monastic house the vaults have baroque stucco ornaments. The main altar from 1745 has been preserved in the church. The monastery area is a stable ground plan and urban type according to Carthusian patterns.The central building is a Gothic church with a long plan with a flat closure, with preserved architectural details. A monastery adjoins the church on the north side. From the original medieval building preserved part of the south, west wing and slightly younger east wing with refectory. In the courtyard stood ten hermits - separate ground houses with gardens. Opposite the church stood the house of the superior monastery with a tower. The inner courtyard was fortified by a stone wall, to which a mill was added, and a separate residential building housed travelers and treated the sick. North of the monastery was the farmyard, accessible by an underpass, with an arched Gothic vault. Some buildings have the original gothic terracotta red window lining. Another farm yard is situated northwest. The building houses the Červený Kláštor Museum.

Červený Kláštor

The size and segmentation of the complex is indicated by the rest of the original residential tower, defensive bastions and the remains of a semicircular bastion from the modern reconstruction, which together with the fragments of the lower structures of the Renaissance walls define the courtyard. According to earlier descriptions, the courtyard on the inside of the walls was surrounded by buildings and accessible by a gate in the middle of the eastern wing. In the south and in the west the castle area was extended by a dam.The castle lost its characteristic silhouette after the collapse of a large part of the palace wall and only a few walls of the former residential area remained. Since 2014, however, began the reconstruction of the castle, they built up two large defensive towers, which are larger than the first mentioned in a plan. They were more underground than above, but they were uncovered, namely the southeast and northeast bastions.