Historical monuments of Pre

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Historical monuments of Prešov

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Neptunes fountain

• Jewis people were not very welcomed in Prešov in
  the past. The first written mention about them is
  from the year 1530. The break point happened only
  in the 18. century when the first Jewish citizen
  settled inside the city, businessman Mark
  Holländer. Being thankful from the given trust he
  had built the Neptuns fountain on the square.
  Till today it is on of the most beautiful and
  important sights of the town. In the middle of
  town square is the imposing Neptune Fountain and
  a group of statues.
• Neptunes fountain is the only original town
  cistern that is well-preserved.

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Town Hall

• Next to the Neptuns fountain in the centre of
  Hlavná Street stands Prešovs Town Hall.
  Original rich house from the 16th century was
  lately rebuilt in the baroque style. The town
  hall was a luxurious townsman's house in the
  Middle Age.
• It was rebuilt to a city winery in the beginning
  of the 16th century and was used for these
  purposes for more than two centuries. After
  several rebuilding, some vaults have been
  preserved from this period. A considerable
  reconstruction was made after the fire in 1768.
  It was finished in 1788 when it resembled a late
  Baroque style building with typical facades, high
  windows and a balcony. Town Hall was added to the
  list of the national cultural sights in 1961.

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Palace Klobusiczsky

• The palace originated in the mid 18th century, on
  the five medieval plots on the square (originally
  the Hungarian Street) which were bought at the
  end of the last century by the Earl Francis
  Klobusiczky. The Klobusiczky Palace was completed
  in 1756. The facade facing the street was heavily
  decorated by wonderful stucco scenes and
  ornamentation, and a Klobusiczky family
  coats-of-arms situated above the main portal is
  the most unique feature.
• A large adjacent park in the east was situated
  there and reached the city walls. The garden was
  built according to the French garden's model.
  Early 19th century the first German theatre in
  Prešov was seated in this building. The palace
  was olyfunctional in the 19th and the 20th
  centuries it served as the barracks for the
  military corps located in Prešov.

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Caraffas prison

• A late-Gothic building dating from the 16th
  century. It is located on the Main Street. This
  gothic building with thick pillars and typical
  gothic shield in the front is only reared
  medieval building in Prešov. The prison was given
  its name according to Caesarean general Antonio
  Caraffa from Naples, who gave verdict, 24
  Hungarian yeomen and burghers were executed.
• It functioned as a town armoury for some time,
  and as a town prison in the second half of the
  19th century. At the beginning of the 20th
  century, the building started to serve for
  archiving municipal written documents, with the
  exception of the World War II period. In the late
  1944, the complete archives of Prešov were moved
  to Opava because of war events.

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Calvary

• The hill on the western outskirts of Prešov
  complex is dominated by Baroque Calvary. In the
  past, it is considered the second most beautiful
  Calvary in the territory of Hungary.
  Establishment Presov Calvary is closely linked to
  the functioning of the Jesuits.
• Chapel of the Cross were set up since 1721 until
  1893rd All have a similar shape with a gable
  front, decorated with ornaments and houses a
  remarkable assembly coat of arms and semicircular
  arched entrance portal with richly decorated
  lattice. It described the shape of the second
  dominant departed Calvary, Chapel of the Holy
  Steps. It was built in Form 1765 Chapel Sancti
  Scala in Lateran Church in Rome.The construction
  financed Prince Radziwill.

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Bosáková Bank

• The present corner of Main Street and Levocska
  was r. 1923-1924 built Secession building,
  originally designed for financial institution.
  Its construction led Ing. V. Glasz. The building
  has a dome covered corners. The front facade was
  created decoration called Peace and love, wealth,
  thrift and Science. The back wing on the street
  today Levocska allegory of the four seasons under
  her relief steamer, steam locomotives and
  aircraft.
• The name given to Michael Bosak (1869-1937),
  Slovak emigrants from the Round, which is a short
  time developed into one of the leading U.S.
  bankers.

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Department of Sancti Maria

• On the street Konštantínova in Prešov
  Konštantínova are two school buildings from the
  late 19th century. The first is the storey
  building in historical style with the Madonna
  statue in a corner niche, today's School of
  Konštantínova street. It was built in r. 1882 as
  the seat of the Order of British virgins.
• In the following years, the Institute further
  expanded at the turn of the century, it has also
  served the original religious house a four-year
  girl's school, a four-year school girls burgess,
  six-year higher school girls and college girls.
• With no big problems are then transformed in the
  new government and the school system after year
  1918th.

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Cathedral of St. Nicholas

• In the widest part of this peculiar polygon, the
  Roman Catholic Church of St Nicholas towers over
  all else. It is the largest religious building in
  the city at 55 metres long, 35 metres wide and
  with a 71 metre-high tower. Inside, its
  Baroque-topped, Gothic-based altar is primarily
  the work of the home-town carver Ján Weiss,
  although the ubiquitous Master Paul of Levoca
  also makes a contribution, providing one of only
  three sculptures that remain from the original
  Gothic adornments.
• Visitors can climb the stairs of the tower for a
  panoramic view of the city and - on a fine day -
  the surrounding hill-top castles.

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Rákoczi Palace

• Influential Rákoczi family left its traces not
  only in Košice but in Prešov as well. During the
  anti Habsburg uprising a lot of political
  meetings took place here, such as the meeting of
  Juraj Rákoczi with the emperor Ferdinand
  František II. Rákoczi made this palace his
  residence during the mentioned uprisings.
• Located in the historic Rákoczi Palace in the
  centre of Prešov, Prešov Regional Museum
  originated in 1945 as a Municipal Museum, later
  becoming a Regional Museum and from 1961 the
  Museum of the Slovak Council Republic.

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• Lenka Kavulová
• Michaela Jurcišinová
• Daniela Gregová
• 1.B