Stará Ľubovňa - sights and attractions
The oldest written document mentioning Stará Ľubovňa comes from the year 1292. In 1364 King Ludovicus I. vested Stará Ľubovňa with the most important privileges the status of free royal town. The town development continues even after 1412 when it became part of 16 Spiš towns given as a deposit to the Polish kingdom by the Hungarian king Zigmund Luxemburg. The end of polish rule in 1772 during the reign of Mária Terézia did not bring any profit to the town. The historical core of the town is created by renaissance burger’s houses with baroque and classical elements and outline a rectangular shape.
The Roman Katholic church of St. Nicolaus Very interesting is the triumph arch from 13th century. The late Rennaissance portal is from 17th century and a plastic on the cross form a 13th century.
The church park The park was planted at the beginning of the 20th century., used to serve as a place for famous fairs. in the 19th century.
Town Hall Late Renaissance building form 19th century.
Ľubovňa Castle was built by the beginning of the 14th century. The most important Hungarian noble families wrote its history – the Omodejs and Drughets. The most significant event in the castle was the meeting of the Hungarian king and the Polish king in 1412. They signed a peace treaty and Zigmund of Luxemburg received 37000 heaps of Prague silver coins from the Polish king Wladislaw II Jagiello for which he gave the Lubovňa castle and another 16 Spiš towns as a deposit to the Polish kingdom. By the beginning of the 19th century the castle was owned by Hungarian aristocrat Juraja Felix Raisz and in 1883 it changed hands and became property of the Polish noble family Zamoyski.


Open air museum of Stará Ľubovňa
The museum ranks among the youngest in Slovakia’s a multi ethnical exhibition consisting of 25 objects. The dominant object of the museum is the Greek Catholic wooden church from Matysová built in 1833 and consecrated to St. Michael Archangel.


The Provincial house reconstructed after the big fire in 1639., a Roman Catholic vicarage built in the second half of the 17th century.