Sights
The Nitra Castle
The Nitra Castle is a National Cultural Monument consisting of four individual parts. Castle Fortification – the present fortification has been gradually constructed through the 16th and 17th centuries. Bishop Pálfy ordered the massive wall to be built in 1673, during the reign of Leopold I. (the Latin writing above the entrance), as a precaution against the Turks. It is a star-shaped fortification system with five impressive bastions. On each of the bastions there is a stone carving portrait of one of Leopold´s commanders.
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The Sts. Constantine – Cyril and Methodius Sculpture
The Sts. Constantine – Cyril and Methodius Sculpture – represents the two brothers and scholars born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Invited in 863 by Prince Rastislav to preach Christianity among his people, they also created the first Slavic script, the Glagolic, and translated fundamental religious texts into Old Slavic, creating a basis for Slavic literacy and scholarship.
(source: nitra.eu)
For more information about Nitra see http://nitra.eu