Heiligenkreuz Hotels – Culture and Astronomy in Žiar nad Hronom

In Žiar nad Hronom, the Biskupský kaštieľ is a Renaissance-Baroque manor house and the most significant monument in Žiar nad Hronom.

Culture

At the Biskupský kaštieľ, visitors can see the courtyard with a plane tree, the Bishop’s Hall, Štefan Moyses’s study, and the bishop’s private chapel. The guided tours also include the archaeological exhibition of the city of Žiar nad Hronom and the gallery of the self-taught painter and native of Žiar, Július Považan. Architecture, interiors, and the two exhibition focuses are thus brought together in the same manor house.

Experiences

The Hviezdna sála offers visitors astronomical films with fulldome projection in 4K resolution. There are 60 seats available for visitors. In addition, the astronomical observatory of the Krajská hvezdáreň a planetárium Maximiliána Hella offers public astronomical observations. Film screenings in the star hall and observations at the observatory therefore constitute two different astronomical offerings.

The Plážové kúpalisko outdoor swimming pool is also associated with various activities. Visitors can hire equipment there for badminton and football with small-sided goals, as well as for table tennis, nohejbal, Russian skittles, beach volleyball, tennis, and soft tennis. The non-swimmer pool at the outdoor swimming pool has a 43-metre water slide. The Slovalco Relax Centrum Žiar nad Hronom also includes the municipal indoor swimming pool.

History

Below Šibeničný vrch, the Jewish Cemetery preserves the remains of several gravestones and is part of the Svätokrížsky educational trail. The votive chapel stands at the so-called Skalka, in front of the entrance to Žiar nad Hronom from the direction of Kremnica. It was built in 1709–1711 on the initiative of the Heiligenkreuz parish priest František Hajnovič. A cultural site in Žiar nad Hronom commemorates the vanished municipality of Horné Opatovce; it is considered its largest and only cultural site of this kind.

Nature

Štefana Moysesa Park is a listed historic park in Žiar nad Hronom and is open to the public for recreation and relaxation. Štefana Moyzesa Park is the oldest part of the municipal green spaces in Žiar nad Hronom. Both park names and their respective historical classifications thus belong to the city’s named green spaces.

For a stay in Žiar nad Hronom, you can compare several hotel offers objectively without inferring the characteristics of an individual offer from the place name alone. On the respective offer page, you can check the exact location, type of accommodation, occupancy, included services, individual price components, and booking and cancellation conditions before booking. For your own planning, it is also helpful to apply the same checking points to every hotel offer and read the cost components separately. This keeps it clear which differences actually arise from the respective offer and which questions remain open before making a decision. Different travel dates may result in different price components or conditions; therefore, you should check the values shown for your own period directly side by side.

Other destinations

Other destinations: Dolná Ždaňa, Hliník Nad Hronom, Kremnica, Nevoľné, Vieska, Sklené Teplice, Krahule, Ihráč.

To the higher-level travel overview: Žiar Nad Hronom.