The Baroque manor house built on older foundations was modified in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has a U-type floor plan and consists of a residential and economic part. The representative living area is decorated with corner towers. The wing of the courtyard has a brick baroque gable with a semicircular gate. The coat of arms contains the coats of arms of the Asbóth and Spillman familiesThe facades are divided by lysine framing and openwork pediments. The roof is mansard. The courtyard of the manor is modernized. The original monastery and Prussian vaults have been preserved in the rooms of the manor. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the manor house underwent several building modifications, and in 2015, the originally shingled roof of the manor house was replaced by a copper roofing. Under the manor there was an underground corridor, which is currently covered.

Vidiná mansion

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The newly reconstructed chateau hotel Galicia Nueva, a real gem of Novohrad and a national cultural monument, has been providing services since the summer months of 2016. After a sensitive reconstruction, a representative space was created for congress events, meetings but also representative social events such as concerts, balls or openings.From the defensive and residential side, the castle was a modern six-wing building on a longitudinal hexagonal plan with a central courtyard. The Renaissance wall paintings depicting Hungarian monarchs, painted on the wall of the former courtyard arcade, along with the carved and painted beamed ceilings of the chambers have been preserved to this day. Once overgrown, the desolate courtyard is now covered with a glass roof and serves as a luxury restaurant.

Halič

The manor was probably built on the site of a medieval castle or older manor. It was part of the Divín castle area. It has four towers with atypical layouts and external fortification. The core of the manor was originally a single-storey prismatic building, eccentrically located at the western wall of the outer bastion fortifications. The walls with one row of crevice shooting ranges were reinforced at the corners by elevated bastions. In the middle of the northern castle wall was the entrance gate. There was probably a moat around the manor, with the exception of the south side, where the walls rest on the slope of the castle hill.Above the entrance gate is a wooden arcade structure with a portal. The building has preserved wooden galleries on the outside and in the interiors Renaissance vaults and beamed ceilings. The Museum of the History of the Village of Divín is located in the reconstructed premises of the Zichy manor house.

Divín manor

The upper castle has the shape of an oval delimited by a wall, to which the southern sector adjoins a considerably disturbed four-room palace from the inside. In its eastern part, the cellar was cleaned with static security, and in the courtyard by the northern wall there is a large, hollowed-out cistern in the rock. The entrance gate is situated in the east. The high wall surrounding the courtyard and the absence of a tower ranks the castle type with a cloak wall.On the eastern corner there is a solid and tall building, slightly protruding from the line of the wall. It resembles a bastion in shape, but it differs in height and use of several floors of the interior from a real bastion.

Divín

During the construction of the castle a rocky hill of volcanic origin was used, which was on the northern side of the vertical walls so high that it was enough to just sew them into the shape of the walls, and later break out the cannon holes. The original palace stood at the southern wall and was rebuilt many times. In the 12th century it consisted of a four-sided tower, a perimeter wall and a wall with palisades. Later, residential buildings forming the upper castle were added to them. During the rebuilding of the Bebek family, the old run was modified with a thick wall and the middle castle was surrounded by a stone wall. The southern wall of the Upper Castle Palace was reinforced in late Gothic, and a circular cistern was excavated in its western part, as there were always water problems in the castle. The lack of water was solved by the construction of additional tanks - three more are visible.Interesting is the closed corridor in front of the southern wall. through which the road to the gate passed. It is preserved in its entirety and finished with rounded bastions, probably from the late Gothic construction phase. However, the depiction of Fiľakovo from 1553 does not capture this corridor at all, so there are doubts about his dating.

Fiľakovo

The remains of a Gothic castle were incorporated into a new mansion, which has a plan of an irregular quadrilateral. Its wings are of varying length - the front southwest wing is slightly outwardly bent, opposite only partially (supplemented by a wall with a back gate to the courtyard). The entrance to the mansion is not on the axis, but on the left side of the front wing. In the middle of the 18th century, the manor house was rebuilt and redeployed four corner towers. The wings were given some new vaults, a staircase was added in the corner of the courtyard, so that the manor house, besides the staircase in the northwest wing, had another one in the south corner and at the eastern tower. The biggest change was the reconstruction of the facade. The entrance part was emphasized by the protruding side panel of the pilasters with rebuilt columns. Their rich cornice heads are supported by a compressed arch up to the height of the cornice of the roof. On the right side of the facade, a balcony was erected on four columns later to compensate for the great architectural accent of the portal.A classicist pavilion was built in the mansion park and in the first half of the 19th century an empire style building in the form of a Greek temple in antis was built by the mansion. Minor repairs to the mansion have not changed much and was inhabited until World War II. It suffered greater damage in 1945, when it was severely damaged by direct hits. The building was at least temporarily repaired in 1951-1953 before the demise (instead of one corner tower they built a square and renewed the roof).On the north side behind the mansion is a large park. Some sources wrongly says, that Juliana Korponai is buried here. However, it is certain that she was born in Ožďany. The Spiš Museum in Levoča confirmed that Julie Korponai was buried in Győr in the cemetery at the cathedral church. At present, the cemetery no longer exists, it is covered with paved area.

Ožďany

The rock, on which the castle was located, was created as a filling of the volcanic chimney at the beginning of the Quaternary and determined the shape and floor plan of the castle. At the highest point of the cliff are traces of the foundations of a probably residential tower with a floor plan of an irregular trapezoid. One level lower, on the west side, there is a large cistern carved into the rock on the rock plateau. On the south side there is a jammed small platform through which the building with the cistern could be entered and on the east side there is about 9 m lower another platform with a bedrock, where there could have been very small farm buildings between the rocks. This area could later be extended further east, where there were probably other farm and defense facilities. However, apart from three jammed stairs at the edge of the area, no traces of them have been preserved.The highest part of the castle was probably accessible only by a ladder, which kept the upper castle and cistern well protected. In the vicinity of the former tower there are traces of the location of the walls and their disposition indicates a small yard with an entrance to the wall, or a small guardhouse. In the western part, about 5 m lower, the mentioned cistern begins with a traces of a roof or a water collection device. The medieval origin of the locality was also confirmed by a research by M. Matejka and P. Gutek, as well as by the results of a smaller research by Z. Drenka in 1962.