The mansion is a two-storey building of rectangular ground plan with elevated two-storey central part with a cuff roof and two towers on the sides. Representative parts of the building are highlighted by the Baroque-Rococo façade. The interior has preserved Renaissance vaults and a baroque staircase. The property also includes a mansion park.In 1994 the Samuel Jurkovič Cooperative Museum was opened in the mansion and the building is also the seat of the municipal office.

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The oldest parts of the castle are part of a two-space palace block on the eastern side of the inner castle courtyard.The castle is divided into two main parts: lower castle and middle castle. The middle castle is separated from the lower castle by a significantly dry deep moat, which increased the natural height of the fortification of the middle castle. The entrance to the middle castle was originally in the corner (opposite the monument). Even where the ground is aligned (where there is no ditch - it was, but the ground was covered by the fall of the upper and middle castle), the attackers had to overcome the 80 m ditch under the direct fire of the castle defenders.The middle castle is functionally divided into 2 parts: the northern courtyard and the residential palace. From the courtyard, the staircase led to the atrium courtyard and the individual rooms. There were 40 rooms - 15 on the ground floor, 20 on the first floor and 5 on the second floor. There was a well in the western courtyard of the lower castle. The older well was also in the courtyard of the middle castle (near the only accessible room).The memorial on the western plateau was built in 1939 and reminds the suffering of imprisoned Protestant priests.

Branč

The degree of conservation of the ruins is relatively large. Relatively most disturbed the core of the castle, which at first glance is a two-tower layout with a palace clamped between prismatic towers. But the towers are slightly rotated against each other and the palace does not form a single block with them. Only the ground plan halves were preserved from the towers. The entrance gate was entered via a rising wooden bridge. The wall of the original frontier was followed by a new part of the castle with a horseshoe cannon bastion with drop bars.Under the threat of the Turks, a lower castle with farm buildings was built. The access road to the upper castle then led through four gates via sophisticated serpentines, whose straight sections were always defended from a higher point.

Dobrá Voda

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 natural protection of the original stone tower with rectangular fortifications was formed by marshy terrain. A two-tower residential palace was added to this area in the 14th century, and in the 15th century another wing was added. After the Renaissance reconstruction, a regular four-wing layout of the building with an arcade courtyard arose. From this period, the inner fortification belt with casemates on the corners has been preserved. In the 17th century was built star fortifications with corner bastions, which connected with the original fortifications underground passage.At present, the castle, surrounded by fortifications, is a monumental three-wing building with a courtyard. Of the representative premises of the summer imperial seat, thanks to the post-nationalization of the Habsburg property after 1918 during I. Czechoslovakia, not much remained. They set up a school and farm buildings in the chateau and the adjacent park was used for agricultural purposes. Worth mentioning is the well-preserved Chinese Hall, the walls of which are covered with leather painted wallpaper with motifs of the Chinese landscape. The chapel has a Baroque look. Ceremonial non-vaulted staircase is interesting for its technical solution of self-supporting structure on slender high columns. Another interesting feature is the moat filled with water that surrounds the whole castle.

Holíč

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.

Katarínka monastery

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 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

A two-storey and two-aisled building with a rectangular floor plan, emphasized by the elevated mass of the middle risalit and also by the side risalit. The manor is characterized by high mansard roofs and bears Renaissance and Baroque elements. The facade of the manor is divided by a high number of pilasters and rustic lysines.Pavilions are regularly located around the manor house, which is a unique phenomenon in Slovakia. The pavilions have been renovated and there is a regional museum with several collections in the cellars.

Chtelnica

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.