Banská Bystrica

The Main Square



The black obelisk raised to the honor of the Soviet soldiers killed during the liberation of the city in 1945

The official website describes the city of Banská Bystrica as the most important historical, cultural and economic centre of the central Slovakia (Slovak Republic). On our way back to Bratislava from Banská Štiavnica, we came off the brand new section of motorway R1 that bypassed this city, to see the place at first hand.  The SNP Main Square did not disappoint: most buildings enclosing the square and in the nearby streets are well preserved Gothic, Renanissance and Baroque noblemen's mansions and wealthy burghers' residences.