Betliar Manor, Betliar, Slovakia

Betliar Manor house was appeared like forward fortification of Krásna Hôrka castle. The core of manor house was built in the 15th century. Štefan Andrássy began a change of this building on luxury formal residence. Manor house was rebuilt on three-storey hunting lodge and today is his appearance relatively similar.

Exposition of manor house consists of collection of works of art, historical furniture, unique library, weapons, precious ceramics, glass and porcelain. There are also hunting trophies from huntings from home and in foreign countries and various objects like eskimo clothes, armament of samurai and Egyptian mummy brought from far journeys. In 1985 manor house in Betliar was promulgated on national cultural monument. Around the manor house is a unique natural park, which was in a 1978 write-in list of important historical gardens of the world. In this park are infrequent woody plants from foreign countries and also native oaks and spruces.

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Martin Pribula (3 years ago)
Amazing Manor House. Beautiful interior and very large park. One of my favourite place in Slovakia

Anetta Caplanova (3 years ago)
This place is supposed to be nice. Arrived 20 minutes before the start of a tour. Toilets smelly, dirty, in a detetiorated shack! Raining, the entrance locked, all tourists waiting outside in rain. This is negligence of guests and not a way to attract tourists. Shame!

Daniela U (3 years ago)
Great night tour through castel. Nice like usually ?

Mariia Repushanska (4 years ago)
Cool! But we couldn’t make a video by dron :(

Robert Tomanovič (4 years ago)
Very nice place to visit not only for history lovers! Castle as well as the park has a special atmosphere of the old times. Went for a tour 18/9/20 with a brilliant and enthusiastic guid who showed us rich and well preserved artifacts.

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