a city in eastern Slovakia the third-largest city in the

country. with a population of

approximately 91,000

has a lot of historical monuments:

Historically, the city has been known as:

Eperjes in Hungarian,

Eperies or Preschau in Germán

Fragopolis in Latin,

Preszów in Polish,

Peryeshis in Romany,

Пряшев (Pryashev) in Russian

Пряшів (Priashiv) in Rusyn and Ukrainian.

Prešov

Concathedral of St. Nicholas In Prešov

Concathedral of St. Nicholas in Prešov is one of the oldest churches in Slovakia

Patron of the church is St. NicholasConcathedral was built in gothic style

Original church comes from 1230The church was rebuilt in half of 14.

centuryThe church was burned out five times (the

biggest fire was in 1788) after this fires came next rebuildings and repairs

History

Central altar originate from 1490-1506 by Jan Weiss

1823 closed down cemetery around the church

9. august 2008 promoted on Concathedral

Concathedral is 54 meters long, 34 meters wide, 16 meters high, but the tower is 71 meters high

Five altars and two organs

Big organ has 3,480 fluepipes and 20 bells

Small organ is older than big organ

Concathedral

Prešov Calvary

Calvary of Prešov is a coplex of baroque chapells and the central church, situated on a hill at the west edge of the town. In the past it was considered as one of the most beautiful calvaries in Ugria.

Building began in 1720 but the whole complex was finished in the 1893. The calvary includes 15 chapells catacombs cemetery and the church of saint cross

History

The church of saint crossIt is the baroque church built in 1753 . Building works were led by František Perger.Interior wall-paintings are creation of Prešov painter, Ondrej Trtina. Inner space is opticaly extended. Beyond altar ,there are three crosses . In the church there are also three bells and an organ . The church was hallowed in 1769.

The Neptun’s fountain.

This fountain is the only one orginaly preserved town cistern. There were 10 similar cistern in the town before.Marek Holländer,the Jewish trador, had the sculpture built as a thanks to the town concil for a permission to run bussines in Prešov.The sculpture was built in 1826 by Vincent Staviarsky and restored at the beginning of 20. century.

History

The Immaculata sculpture.

The sculpture is situated at the northern part of town square. It is incorrectly called Trojica.

Since the 1687 there was a scaffold of Prešov bloody court.In 1751 Jesuits had the sculpture built accordig to reassons that are not actually clear.

History

The sandstone sculpture is a creation of unknown artist. The basis of the sculpture is gilded statue of Madona with a baby, crown and a sceptre.There are only few statues preserved now.The monument was restored in 1967 and then in 1995-1997.

Matúš GajdárMartin Marko

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