The mansion is a two-storey block building. There are two rounded bastions on the corners of the facade and the entrance bay is on the side of the courtyard. The facades originally had sgraffito ornaments.On the ground floor there are Renaissance vaults. After a fire in the late 18th century, the manor house was adapted in the Classicist style.

Krivany - Dessewffy mansion

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The manor house was built as a single-tower with firing holes on the original attic. It is a multi-storey block building with originally renaissance windows and a corner tower on the southwest side. The rooms on the first floor have a carved beamed ceiling, on one of the beams is carved the year 1649. In each room there are stone renaissance doors, renaissance stucco patterns on the vaults and a baroque fireplace.An interesting feature of this mansion is the fact that it is an Irish-style building, and is the only one of its kind in Slovakia. At present, however, despite its great importance, it is in a bad state. Only the roof was repaired and the windows were replaced to prevent further damage.

Pečovská Nová Ves

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.

Plaveč

On the narrow rocky ridge there are small remains of the castle above the ground, but the entire castle supposedly occupied the area of approximately 60 x 40 meters and consisted of two parts - northern and southern. In the northern part, surrounded by a neck ditch, was the dominant stone tower, which was probably not round but polygonal with rounded edges. A wall was attached to the tower, which ran all the way to the southern structure. Under the tower, in a smaller courtyard, stood farm buildings. The southern part of the complex was the inner castle. There was a castle palace measuring 10 x 6 meters, which had a rounded northeast corner. The castle was also protected by wooden palisades on ramparts with a moat.Only fragments and remains of the walls have been preserved from the castle. The stone tower in the northern part of the castle is preserved to a height of about 1.5 floors, in the southern part of the castle is probably a palace building. Since 2012, the Rákociho cesta association has been involved in the partial reconstruction of the castle.

Lipovce

The main part of the preserved buildings is located in the upper castle, which is particularly interesting Renaissance arcade corridor dating from the turn of the 16th and 17 century. It served as a link between western Gothic palaces, defensive parts and a chapel. Today it serves as an exhibition room with an exhibition of defensive weapons and archaeological finds.At the end of the arcade corridor, the gothic chapel of St. Elizabeth, dating from the 1930s, is entered on the right. The chapel was built in two phases. Its origin was probably related to the reconstruction of Spiš Castle in the years 1430 - 1437. It was first flooded with a flat, probably coffered ceiling. The vaulting in the form of stone ribs, which simultaneously completed the construction of the chapel, was realized later, probably in the second half of the 15th century. As part of the restoration of the monument, the chapel was flooded and the vaulting system was partially reconstructed. In its interior are installed exhibits of sacred nature and the chapel also serves its original, spiritual purpose.The exhibition space also includes examples of period interiors - torture chamber, medieval kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and armory. These interiors are accessible to tourists.

Spiš 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

From the original castle is preserved the core, which is a massive prismatic tower (13.2m x 13.2m), which served for housing. At first, donjon was tightly wrapped around a relatively thin wall. Inside there was room for the extension of the accommodation of the castle family. An irregular round tower has been preserved from the bailey.The castle fortifications are preserved, including bastions. The central tower - donjon - provides a very good view of the surroundings. The castle is one of the largest medieval castles with the highest number of bastions.

Šariš castle

The mansion was built as a four-tower two-storey block building of rectangular ground plan. The large courtyard was surrounded by a wall with an entrance gate, which was reinforced in several places by bastions and was protected by a wide moat all around the perimeter. Part of the grounds of the manor house became a large, so-called Pánska garden with trees and a pond. Between the garden and the yard were built farm buildings and a farmstead, where the former servants lived.The mansion has been reconstructed and adapted to the integration facility that has been operating here since 1993. From the original architecture, only the bossed entrance portal has been preserved. The renaissance extension on the northern side of the mansion in the plan has the shape of the letter L.