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Location:
Europe,
Slovakia, Trnava
Category:
City view
Description:
View of historic city
square and the gothic St Nicolas
church
Location Information:
Trnava
is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km
to the north-east of Bratislava, on
the Trnávka river. It is the capital
of a kraj (Trnava Region) and of an
okres (Trnava District). It was the
seat of a Roman Catholic
archbishopric (1541-1820 and then
again since 1977). The city has a
historic center. Because of the many
churches within its city walls,
Trnava has often been called "parva
Roma", i. e. "Little Rome", or more
recently, the "Slovak Rome". As
early as in the Middle Ages, Trnava
was an important centre of Gothic
religious and lay architecture - St.
Nicolas’s Church, St. Helen’s Church
and several church monastery
complexes (Clarist, Franciscan and
Dominican) were built in this
period.
The Renaissance (16th century) added
a town tower to Trnava’s silhouette.
Nicolas Oláh ordered the erection of
the Seminary and Archbishop’s
Palace. Peter Bornemisza and Huszár
Gál, the leading personalities of
the Reformation in the Kingdom of
Hungary, were active in Trnava for a
short time. The town ramparts were
rebuilt to a Renaissance
fortification as a reaction to the
approaching Turkish danger from the
south.
The 17th century was characterized
by the construction of the Pualinian
Church that bears badges of Silesian
Renaissance. Trnava was gradually
redesigned to Baroque. The erection
of the St. John the Baptist Church
and of the university campus
launched a building rush that
continued with the reconstruction of
the Franciscan and Clarist’s
complexes. Builders and artists
called to build the university also
participated in improvements of the
burgher architecture. The Holy
Trinity Statue and the group of
statues of St. Joseph, the
Ursulinian and Trinitarian Church
and Monastery are of recent
construction.
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