The belfry has been preserved, originally a bastion of a fortified medieval church, of which only insignificant ruins have been preserved. It is a brick circular building with wooden superstructure.The church was fortified in 1582 in connection with the Turkish danger of the time. Until 2009, the bell tower also included a historic bell from 1680.

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On the Sitno hill stood a historic stone castle with fortifications that surrounded the entire top plateau from the castle to the steep inaccessible rocks on the north and southwestern edge. The walls were built on the foundations of the rampart fortification, which also had a cross wall, not used in the Middle Ages. He separated part of the fort on the acropolis and could serve as a second line of defense. The remains of the peripheral masonry and foundations remained from the castle, which suggests that the castle consisted of two parts. On the north side of the upper side probably stood the castle palace, to which in the rock carved staircase led, on the south laid the lower castle, as evidenced by the remnants of its peripheral walls. From the western accessible side stretches the neck ditch behind which are all parts of the barbican are reconstructed and on the right is a carved water tank in the courtyard. The entrance to the castle was on its side, protected from invaders.The castle is now a ruin merging with the rock on which it is built. Early in 21st century, volunteers began archaeological research and conservation of castle ruins. Today you can see the location of the barbican, the water tank and the entrance to the castle.

Sitno

The anti-Turkish watchtower has a square floor plan and was built of quarry stone. The tower measures approximately 3x3 m and its three brick floors reach a height of approximately 13 meters. A log building on an extended walkway was built above the brick part. The tower had firing holes (still visible nowadays) in the upper part and a window on the SW side. Originally, the tower probably had a covered, spindle-shaped internal staircase, now a wooden staircase leads along the outer perimeter on the extended consoles. At the beginning of the 18th century, the tower lost its original function and gradually fell into disrepair.In the 60s of the 20th century, the tower was restored, later, in 2016 there was another reconstruction, including the replacement of the roof. At present, the tower serves as a lookout tower.


Vartovka Krupina

The castle - or rather small fortress, was built as a massive prismatic tower, initially with a pair of round cannon bastions on opposite corners, later supplemented by the same bastions on the raised edges of the building. Originally, this building was accessible on the level of the floor by a tilting ramp and it was preserved in an almost intact form. The ground floor has a larger space vaulted by a cross vault carried by the central pillars. Other floors, except the vaulted rooms in the bastions, have straight wooden ceilings. The strong character of the building is enhanced by the massive semicircular entrance located on the first floor. The fort was later rebuilt, so today it has four floors with gunfire and cannon openings.To this day, the Nový zámok forms one of the distinctive landmarks of Banská Štiavnica. Since 1971 it houses an exhibition of the Slovak Mining Museum, which documents the period of anti-Turkish fighting in Slovakia. The castle is reconstructed and opened to the public. From its upper floor is a nice view of Banska Stiavnica. The expositions show a map of our territory during the Turkish occupation, images from the Turkish wars and on three floors are still weapons used in those times.

Nový Zámok

Four-wing block building with a courtyard, characterized by austere facades with cannon loopholes and tower-shaped bay windows on the corners that were part of the defense signaling system. The core of the old chateau is the original Romanesque Basilica of the Virgin Mary with three ships built before the Tartar invasion. The fortress is surrounded by massive stone fortifications with round bastions. The fortification also involved the Gothic residential tower Himmelreich, a karner and a massive prismatic gate, today highlighted by a richly profiled roof. A staircase with stone portals and fragments of wall paintings has been preserved since the Renaissance reconstruction. The remains of the Gothic church are documented by fragments of vaults, a burst, the original vaulted presbytery and a circular staircase.The exhibitions at the Old Castle represent the history of the whole Banská Štiavnica region. The old castle is an example of various building styles - from the Romanesque chapel of St. Michael to the baroque entrance tower.

Starý Zámok

Only the ruins of the former monastery have been preserved, showing the extent and arrangement of the buildings. Only one of the former monastery buildings stands today - the Gothic sacristy, later converted into a chapel, while the others are demolished to the ground. There is a significant human intervention, especially in individual bastions, where one can see an attempt to adapt to modern times by introducing wiring and setting metal frames. The appearance of the whole monument is spoiled especially by unsuitable building material used for partial reconstruction - concrete. In one of the corner bastions are even artificially created concrete spiral stairs, which are interesting, but together with other interventions spoil the historical impression of the monument.It is worth noting the reconstruction of the roofing of the individual bastions and the castle chapel. On four corner bastions are large cannon holes, originally lined with sgraffito ornamentation. There are also renaissance barrel vaults with lunettes and a staircase in the wall thickness.The original Romanesque church, built of stone blocks, was two-towered, to its northern side were added Gothic sacristy and monastery with orbiting cloister and paradise courtyard. A monumental fortification, on the corner with four elevated rounded bastions, was protected by a moat. Individual bastions were accessible by gallery and gothic-renaissance portals, on some of them are initials of S. B. (Sigismundus Balassa) and dating 1545.

Bzovík

The castle used to consist of a two-story palace, a tower and stone walls. The outer fortifications were earthy. Today we can still see the remains of ramparts along almost the entire perimeter of the castle hill.The description of the castle from 1668 shows the castle palace as a stone building, protected by two gates, a bastion and a strong fortification.

Dobrá Niva

The manor is a two-storey rectangular block building, originally with two corner towers. One tower was later dismantled, but rebuilt during reconstruction. In the façade on the central axis there is a portico with a pair of round columns. On the floor above the portico is an attic with key shooting ranges. The courtyard façade has a medium, slightly protruding risalit. The towers had corner pilasters on the ground floor and on the first floor they had a corner bossage and an arch frieze under the attic. The rooms have flat ceilings.The manor house was neo-Gothic rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century.

Bohunice

Despite being a ruin, the castle is impressive. It is surrounded by the Litava River from three sides. The Rondel Association is in charge of preserving the castle and cleaning its surroundings. Thanks to them, we do not have to worry about the high occurrence of snakes and wild jungle in the castle.The upper castle was once a tower, a large courtyard with palace buildings and farm buildings. The entrance to the upper castle was from the north side through the gate probably with a drawbridge. Bastions, which formed a system of peripheral fortifications, were located on the western side. On the east side was a residential building, in the southwest gate with a bastion and in the south entrance gate with a tower and a forward gate with loopholes and drawbridge. Remains of external fortifications and parts of structures and perimeter walls of residential buildings have been preserved.

Čabraď

To this day there can be seen a clear market square in the village of Pukanec with several burgher houses. The original mining town had a town castle with a parish church. It had an entrance tower, which, like in the Kremnica castle complex, was a town hall, a bell tower, and had a tower over the sanctuary of the church and its own fortifications.At present, the church and part of the fortifications have been preserved from the town castle. The fortification of the town castle was partly wooden but also stone, which was mainly the fortification of the church.

Pukanec

The castle consisted of two parts, Lower and Upper Castle, which we can visit today. In recent years, archaeologists have done a lot of work, making the walls of the Desert Castle one of the largest in Europe. Archaeological research at the Upper Castle has proven the existence of an older earthen mound on which the medieval wall was built. Research at the Lower Castle, on the other hand, proved the existence of an older, earthy prehistoric mound below the western line of the medieval fortifications.The oldest medieval building in the Pust Castle is the tower of a comitate castle from the end of the 12th century. Along with the related fortifications, it is located at the highest point of the castle hill - at an elevation of 571 m asl. A little younger is the royal residential tower at the Lower Castle 100 meters lower. After the Tatar invasion, a large fortification with a connecting wall of 206 meters was created in the Pustý Castle. In 13th century a second tower was built at the Upper Castle and at the end of the 13th century a four-storey tower was added to the entrance gate of the Upper Castle. To the northeast of the residential tower was built a defensive tower and its transverse wall. This was how the dam was built when another castle was built as a separate defensive and residential unit within the Upper Castle. County castle from the end of the 13th century. was built into its northern tip. It has a separate fortification, palace, pre-palace building, cistern and the entire courtyard has been modified using terraces.