The city Rožňava is an administrative and cultural centre of the upper Gemer. The first written record about Rožňava comes from the year 1291.Since the 1775 Rožňava is a Bishop’s seat of Slovak, Hungarian, German speaking inhabitants. There is preserved a precious historical centre of which heart is a square surrounded by significant architectonic monuments. In the centre of the square stands a renaissance watchtower built during Turkish wars in the years 1643-1654. The most important sacral monument of Rožňava is a bishops´ cathedral church which was a parochial church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary built at the beginning of the 14th century, up to the year 1776. Other important historical monuments in the square are – house of the mining chamber, gothic civic house.