The monastery was originally a Gothic church. Currently, the best preserved is the Gothic part and defensive walls. The church was built on the southern foot of the hill Pohanská in the area of the Celtic oppida sometime during the 14th century. It was a small object with a polygonal presbytery of the same width as the ship and the northern, probably square sacristy. Its statics were provided by supporting pillars in the corners.The building is probably the last monument to the unknown extinct village that was located in this place. The orientation of the church is exactly in the east-west direction. The width of the perimeter masonry is 100 cm, with an amplification of 120 cm on the north side, probably due to the entrance to the sacristy, which is located here.

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The original Gothic castle consisted of a prismatic tower and a palace. In the middle of the 16th century the castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance fortress with courtyards, later supplemented with cannon bastions.At present, the exterior masonry of the extensive fortifications, a significant cannon bastion and the masonry of the palace and the central tower have been preserved. A stone Renaissance gate has been preserved in the eastern bastion.

Plavecký castle

The castle ruin is compositionally tightly connected with the limestone bedrock, stone masonry and remains of the former walls of palaces, farm buildings and bastions grow from the rugged bedrock. The Renaissance twin bracket, key loophole and side lining are some of the few preserved architectural elements.The remains of the walls and the side prism tower have been preserved from the fortress, which formed the original castle. Later, the castle was extended with a barracks with farm buildings and a tank. At the turn of the 15th-16th century, they built a massive fortress and, at the time of the Turkish invasions, another bailey with a circular bastion.

Ostrý Kameň

The castle core was oval with dimensions of about 45x17m and at both ends stood prismatic towers. The west tower had dimensions of 4.3x4.1 m on the ground floor with walls about 2 m thick and compared to the east tower is partially turned. Both towers were probably inhabited. Although the perimeter wall no longer exists, the foundation walls probably contain a transverse terrain step on a platform between the towers, which may indicate further unspecified buildings. However, nothing indicates the occurrence of a possible multi-space palace.Approximately 8m below the core platform, it is surrounded by an artificially modified terrace - about a trace of a ring closer to the invisible fortification, and another 8m lower is the second fortification ring, which extends significantly to a smaller fort in the east, protected by a moat. In front of it is another part surrounded by a rampart and a moat. In the past, wooden bridges led through the ditches. Only minimal above-ground remains have been preserved, mostly the lower parts of the towers discovered by detectors.

Kuchyňa castle

The castle is renovated and is in very good condition. The castle was opened to the public in 1997. In the castle is located a branch of the Slovak National Museum. There are still expositions of historical furniture and period living nobility, historical weapons. The castle gallery and underground cellars are also open to the public.It is worth noting the sophisticated sala terrena / room on the ground floor of the palace open to the garden / from 1656 by master Tencall with various figures filled with figural scenes of apotheoses and mythological scenes. Also a wide range of chandeliers, mirrors, precious art-historical objects, furniture and a picture gallery are examples of historical living accessories.As for the exterior, the castle is a massive two-storey building with four corner round bastions connected by a defensive wall. In the basement there are castle cellars with a sophisticated ventilation system. The castle buildings are centered around a large courtyard, the center of attention being a stone fountain with a sculpture of a prancing deer - a symbol of the Palffy family. The unequal tall buildings with bastions are the result of adjustments to the entrance areas, residential palaces and economic parts, which they gradually moved to the area of the bailey.

Červený Kameň

The massive building of the main building consists of two wings: the left wing faces from the tower to the southeast and the right wing faces northeast. The entire building with the tower is made of reinforced concrete. Portland cement was allegedly used for the first time in the construction of the castle. The architectural design of the castle is based on a romantic concept based on medieval models of European architectures. The complex of buildings is dominated by a massive central tower, with an observation deck in its roof. The mass of the castle palace is accentuated by gables, steep roofs and towers. The fortified front yard with chapel and bastions forms the framework of the romantic shaping of green. An integral part of Smolenice Castle is a large English park.The completed and modernized chateau was handed over to Slovak Academy of Sciences on the day of its birth, on June 26, 1953. Since then, the Smolenice chateau has become the home of the SAS researchers.

Smolenice chateau

Relatively preserved remnants of the lower castle with a quadrilateral building, perimeter walls and a distinct castle moat with a supporting wall of the falling gate. In the upper, older Gothic part, we find several architectural details.Limited view of the surrounding country, dominated by the nearby four wind farms on the east side. Noticeable are the remains of the perimeter walls of the upper castle and sections of the lower fortifications, as well as the remains of the circular tower.

Korlátka

The manor is a multi-storey block building with distinctive corner prismatic towers with a mansard roof. We can see Renaissance sgraffito on the corners. The windows have Renaissance stone shutters. There is an arched passage on the axis of the manor house, from which a baroque staircase leads to the first floor.The building has been renovated and is used for various corporate events.

Trstín manor

The mansion has two floors and an attic. The predominant building style is eclecticism, which is usually manifested by the use and imitation of elements from several often opposite styles. The facades of the manor house are decorated with turrets, dormers, bay walls and gables. There is a horizontal bossage. The coat of arms of Ján Pálffy is placed above the entrance portal. The roofing is diverse. The building has a high tower with a walkway and an onion roof.The entrance to the building is a monumental staircase, the individual rooms in the interior have a mostly flat ceiling. The mansion with English park is one of the national cultural monuments.

Budmerice

Probably in the second third of the 16th century, the castle was rebuilt into a new modern fortress. It is questionable when it acquired the form of a bastion fortress with a square floor plan, but from a typological point of view it coincides with the fortifications of Holíč Castle. The preserved remains of the original building consist of a manor and a bastion fortification, which has preserved in almost complete condition the southeastern fortification curtain, the southern and eastern bastion, the southern section of the southwestern curtain and part of the course of the northeastern curtain also with the northern bastion. Below ground level, on the areas surrounding the fortifications, moat structures are assumed. The building of the manor is three-winged with a U-shaped floor plan. The north side wing and the main wing are two-storey, the south side wing is ground floor, all are partially basement. The two rooms in the south wing are vaulted with trough vaults with sections and corner lunettes. The fortification consists of earthly trapezoidal bastions, situated on the corners of a fortress terrace with a square floor plan, which is separated by curtains between the bastions. The mantle of curtains and bastions is built of burnt bricks.The building lost its monumental character when it was adopted for the purposes of textile production. The original buildings were modified in style, while the new buildings did not even follow the original course of the fortifications.

Šaštín

The church has an atypical north-south orientation (tower - shrine). The probable cause was the terrain itself, which did not allow to maintain the typical orientation of the sacral building. The subsoil of the church is quite rocky, especially in the area of the sanctuary, under which there is a large cavity or cave, which has not been thoroughly explored to this day. The massive tower of the temple was originally finished with a pyramidal roof and covered with shingles. In r. 1738 was rebuilt. The entrance to the temple was provided by three entrances in the lower part of the tower - the main larger portal was located on the north side. Two smaller opposite each other on the east and west walls of the tower. The church was single-nave, the nave was divided in thirds by two pillars on both sides into three vertical fields. The triumphal arch, set on two massive pillars, formed a majestic transition to the elevated presbytery. The presbytery had a rectangular shape, characteristic of all monastic churches. The end of the sanctuary was rectangular, today only a fragment of one of the two windows has been preserved.Church ruins with a tower and the remains of the southern part of the wing of the monastery building have been preserved from the monastery complex. The remaining parts of the complex were dismantled in the past into building material. Since 1995, the ruins have been taken care of by Katarínka civic association.