Historical Prešov

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Historical Prešov

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Historical Prešov. Town walls : -started in 1374 and completed in the 15th century. -the best-preserved parts are the northeastern bastion and some parts of the walls in Kmeťovo stromoradie. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Historical Prešov

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Town walls : -started in 1374 and completed in the 15th century.

-the best-preserved parts are the northeastern bastion and some parts of the walls in Kmeťovo stromoradie.

Town hall : -was originally a Gothic burgher‘s house changed into a wine bar.

-It is changes were connected with the big fires in 1768 and 1887

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Rákoczy Palace : - was built of two burgher‘s houses by Žigmund Rákoczy at the and of the 16th century.

- it used to be a representative palace of the resistance movement of Rákoczy family.

- at present , the Regional Museum uses the building.

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Szentandrássy Palace : - was constructed aas an integration of three medieval houses between 1880-1886 today the Ľudová bank residence

Vécsey Palace : - was rebuilt at the end of the 18th century

-the palace got a rich Baroque-Classicistic fasade decoration

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Evangelic Collegium : -was a higher evangelical school built in 1667.

- it was one of the most important education centre in Hungary .

- in 1908 the memorial to the victims of the Caraffa‘s blood trial so called Prešov slaughtery was revealed at the corner of the building .

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Neptune‘s Fountain : - is the only preserved tank of the former 10 water tanks than supplied the town with water

-1789

-sculpture was completed in 1826

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St. Nicholas Concathedral

-important church in Prešov-it was built in the mid 14th century

-main altar

-statue of St. Sebastian

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Calvary (Prešov)

-Located on a hill on the western edge of Prešov

-It comes from the first half of

the 18th century.

-cemetery and catacombs

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Lívia Ďuricová, Kristína Birnšteinová 1.E