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Distance
3.08 mi
Elevation gain
46 ft
Technical difficulty
Easy
Elevation loss
46 ft
Max elevation
509 ft
TrailRank 
44
Min elevation
428 ft
Trail type
Loop
Moving time
57 minutes
Time
3 hours 46 minutes
Coordinates
865
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January 6, 2024
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January 2024
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- To complete this Route we depart by train from Bratislava Hlavná Stanica (Bratislava Main Station) to Železničná Stanica Trnava (Trnava Train Station). We left around 10 in the morning and returned in the afternoon, the duration of the direct journey being 45 minutes. (Ticket price: 2.55 Euros and can be purchased at the Station ticket office)

- This Track does not include:
. The Bernolakova Brána (Bernolák Gate).
. The two synagogues.
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Trnava
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The city of Trnava located in the western part of the country is known above all for its churches, for the number of churches and for this reason, it is often called "Slovak Rome."

Trnava is located about 45 km from Bratislava, by car you can get there by highway - the highways are paid - or by train or bus. Trnava is the capital and center of the Trnava region (Trnavský kraj).


Trnava was originally a farming town but began to grow faster in the 13th century and the center of crafts and trade began to form. In the same century they began to build the city walls and fortification system, which was the need of the cities at that time. The walls were rectangular in shape and had four large gates and two small gates that served only for pedestrians. A large part of the walls still remains. Trnava began to be even more important in the 16th century as it was the seat of the Archbishop of Esztergom and thus the religious center and cultural center of the country. Trnava University was founded in the 17th century and today its buildings located in the city center are very important monuments.


- The walls. Through the Bernolakova Brána (Bernolák Gate), largely restored with reinforced concrete, you can access the outside of the walls that surround the old town of Trnava.

- The center of Trnava is the square ¨Trojičné námestie¨ which means the Holy Trinity Square, in the square there is ¨Mestská veža¨ which means City Tower. The tower is from the 16th century, has 8 floors and was the watchtower. In the same square you find the statue of the Holy Trinity.

- As we have already said Trnava was the religious center of the country. One of the churches in Trnava is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. It is the first building built in the early baroque style in Slovakia.

- Basilica of San Nicolas is a church built in the Gothic style between the 14th and 15th centuries.

- The buildings of the theology, philosophy and medicine faculties were part of the University of Trnava, today they are buildings with a lot of historical value.

- No less interesting are the two synagogues in Trnava. They are located next to each other. Both are from the end of the 19th century. The neological synagogue that today is used mainly for exhibitions and the Orthodox synagogue that is today a cafeteria.


Trnava is increasingly interesting for tourists, due to its proximity to the capital, its historic center and the charm of a small city with a lot of history. You cannot forget even its surroundings, the Little Carpathians and the vineyard and viticulture area.



Source: guiaeslovakia.com

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Železničná Stanica Trnava (Estación de Tren Trnava)

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Pasarela Peatonal - Acceso Estación

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Pomník padlých v I. sv. vojne (Monumento a los Caídos)

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Park Slovenského Národného Povstania (Parque Nacional Levantamiento Eslovaco) - Pamätník Osloboditeľov (Monumento Libertadores)

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Centro Histórico Trnava

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Kostol sv. Heleny (Iglesia de Santa Elena)

St Heleny's Church was built in the mid-14th century near the city walls. The first part of the building, the original church, was probably the chancel, to which the church nave was later added. At the beginning of the 18th century, a sacristy and side chapels were added to the chevet on both sides of the nave. - Architecture The main façade of the church facing west is decorated with a stone entrance portal. To the left of the portal is a huge cross with a corpus made in 1739 by the Trnava master Ignác Melczer. The head has a closure on three sides and is vaulted with Gothic ribbed vault fields. It is illuminated by arched windows with stained glass windows of saints. A broken Gothic arch separates the head from the nave. The nave was vaulted in the Baroque style at the end of the 17th century. The simple main altar dates from the end of the 19th century. In the side chapels there are altars decorated with paintings and statues. In the south chapel there is an altar of the Man of Sorrows from around 1700, in the center with a statue of the Divine Heart. In the north chapel there is a side altar with a painting of Our Lady of Loret from 1725-1728.

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de Navidad Trnava

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Centro Histórico Trnava

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Kilométrico Países - Radnica (Ayuntamiento)

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Radnica (Ayuntamiento)

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Historické Jadro Mesta Trnavy (Núcleo Histórico de la Ciudad de Trnava)

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Socha Svätej Trojice (Estatua de la Santísima Trinidad) - Trojičné Námestie (Plaza de la Trinidad)

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Mestská Veža (Torre de la Ciudad)

The Trnava City Tower is a Renaissance building located on the Old Town Square. The square-shaped building is crowned by a tin dome. On the upper floor there is a viewpoint from which you can admire the panorama of the area. The tower was built in the 16th century by an architect, Master Jakub, who was active in this area. It is considered one of the most beautiful in Slovakia. Its regular shape is divided by cornices. There is a small loggia above the entrance. A sundial was painted on the façade. The city tower is a symbol of Trnava. The big draw is the opportunity to admire the views from the balcony located just below the Renaissance dome.

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Kostol sv. Jakuba (Iglesia de San Jacques)

This single-nave church was built between 1363 and 1383 on an older building with the support of King Louis I of Hungary. Adjacent to the Franciscan convent, it was rebuilt in Baroque style in the 17th and 18th centuries. It contains two altars in the choir, one in the sacristy, one in the chapel and ten in the nave. The central painting of the main altar represents Santiago standing on a cloud and surrounded by a halo.

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Kostol Najsvätejšej Trojice (Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad)

Although today the Church of the Holy Trinity and the adjacent monastery are known as Jesuits, it was built by order of the Trinitarians. After arriving in Trnava, the Trinitarians first settled in the buildings taken over by the Trnava Evangelicals, which were located near the Franciscan monastery. They later bought several houses on today's Štefániková and Františkánská streets and in 1720, with the generous help of Bishop Ján Okoličáni, whose monumental stone shield adorns the façade, they began to build their own church. The main altar dominates the set of baroque side column altars. Its large-scale painting depicting the founders of the Order of St. John of Mata and St. Felix of Valois in front of the Holy Trinity, is the most important part of the interior. It was painted by the famous Austrian painter FA Maulbertsch in the 1850s. On the side altar of the Virgin Mary, under the image, which is a copy of the graceful image of the Virgin Mary of Regensburg, are the remains of two martyrs from Košice: the Jesuits Fr. Š. Pongrác and PM Grodziecke. The side chapel of St. Jozef from the year 1900, whose initiator was the very pious citizen J. Müller. We also find his name during the construction of the Ursuline school, the Calvary and the Chapel of Saint Mary. Cross in the New Cemetery. On the floor of the monastery, above the sacristy, there is a small monastery chapel. Today it is decorated in a modern style, its central painting was painted by a painter living in Florence, Stanislav Dusík. The Pride of the Monastery is an 18th-century wall painting that presents the main themes of the iconography of the Trinitarians: the Holy Trinity, portraits of the founders of the order and genre scenes of their activities. Even the Trinitarians did not escape the fate of the orders abolished by Emperor Joseph II, so their activity in Trnava ended in 1782. The monastery buildings belonged to the royal gymnasium. In 1807, the church and gymnasium passed into the hands of the Benedictines; Later, in 1852, the school and church were handed over to the restored Jesuit Company of Jesus.

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de Navidad y Portal de Belén

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Adornos Navideños

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Kostol Svätej Anny (Iglesia de Santa Ana)

Baroque Church of St. Anny, the youngest of the churches in the historic center, as well as being the last built within the walls, closes the chapter on Trnava's baroque sacred architecture. The Ursuline sisters, fond of educating girls, settled in Trnava in 1724. They were given land with a church, a rectory and an evangelical school. After purchasing their own land, they began to dig the foundations of the Ursuline monastery in 1728 and a year later the first stone of the chapel was laid, which they used temporarily until they built a normal church. Construction was complicated by neighborhood disputes. A disgruntled neighbor built a wall in front of the chapel's windows and even burned the prefect with hot water. King Charles VI. He resolved the conflict by ordering the "transversal" neighbor to give the house to the nuns, who in turn had to immediately pay him the sum of 1,500 florins. The foundation stone of the St. Anny Monastery Church was built only in 1774, the construction lasted two years. The main altar from 1789 with an image of Saint Peter. Anna teaching the Virgin Mary, which comes from the famous painter Jozef Zanussi. The lateral image of Christ on the Mount of Olives is also the work of the same author. Next door is the altar of the Virgin Mary, which Maria Teresa donated to the church after leaving university. At the bottom there is a coffin with the remains of the Košice martyrs. The Ursulines ran a school for girls in the city. After the teachers' college opened, more classroom space was needed, so a new two-story school with a chapel and gymnasium was built in 1901 on the site of several older houses. The main builder was Jozef Kadlec and the citizen Jozef Müller, a couple we also met during the construction of St. Peter's chapel, contributed financially. Joseph in the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Way of the Cross on the outskirts of the city.

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Centro Histórico Trnava

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Stĺp Svätého Jozefa (Columna de San José) - Námestie Sv. Mikuláša (Plaza de San Nicolás)

Baroque sculpture dedicated to St. Jozef is one of the decorations of the smaller historical square in front of the St. Petersburg Basilica. Nicholas in Trnava. It was built in 1731 in gratitude for the end of one of the great plague epidemics that devastated not only Trnava, but almost all of Europe. The author of the column about the plague is the local sculptor I. Melczer. On the triangular base there are reliefs of several saints. Above the statues of the saints there are angels with carpentry tools. There is also a relief shield of the city. At the top of the obelisk there is a sculpture of Saint Peter. Joseph with Jesus.

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Bazilika sv. Mikuláša (Basílica de San Nicolás)

* Basilica on the highest hill in Trnava Gothic Basilica of St. Mikuláša is a characteristic landmark of Trnava. Visually it is located at the highest point of the city, on the site of the oldest suburban settlement and at the crossroads of important trade routes. The temple thus replaced the smaller original Romanesque church, which apparently no longer met the needs of the growing city. No wonder Saint was consecrated. Nicholas - the patron saint of shoppers. Church of St. Until 1820 St. Nicholas was the cathedral church of the archbishops of Ostrihom. Pope Benedict XVI elevated the Cathedral of St. Nicholas to the minor basilica. The Gothic basilica with up to five naves with a façade of two towers and baroque chapels has eight high windows in the sanctuary with stone tracery and colorful carvings. Among the many chapels, there is one that is a little more special. This is the chapel of Our Lady of Trnava, patron saint of the city of Trnava, in which there is a miraculous and grace-filled image. According to witnesses, tears of blood appeared on the merciful image, with which he not only warned the people of Trnava, but also protected them during the tragic events of 1663 and 1708. In his honor, the basilica became an important place of pilgrimage and Thousands of believers come to pray to the image every year during the nine-day Trnava Novena. The artistic jewels of the temple also include unique historical organs, the sound of which was appreciated by the chief organist of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Olivier Latry, or by the outstanding composer and conductor of Trnava, Mikuláš Schneider Trnavský.

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Bazilika sv. Mikuláša (Basílica de San Nicolás)

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Ciudad de Trnava Fuera de la Muralla

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Acceso Centro Histórico Trnava

Just on the other side of the Walls is the Bernolakova Brána (Bernolák Gate), another access gate to the Historical Center of Trnava, which has been largely restored with reinforced concrete.

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Mestské opevnenie v Trnave (Fortificación de la ciudad de Trnava)

The Trnava fortifications are among the oldest medieval fortifications of Slovak cities. With a defined area of 56 hectares, the city of Trnava was among the largest cities in Europe in the 13th century. The construction of the Trnava city fortifications was necessary due to the enormous development of the city. At the time of its creation, it was probably one of the largest fortifications in Hungary. It has an almost regular rectangular shape with dimensions of about 800 x 700 meters. This fortification defined an area of 56 ha, making Trnava in the 13th century one of the largest cities in Central Europe. The construction of the fortification began in the 13th century and was developed in several stages, little by little walls, gates and a defense system against water were built. The Trnava fortification was a transitional type between the old wooden and earthen walls and the medieval masonry walls. In the first phase, wooden walls and towers were built, whose baked brick walls, almost two meters thick, were not plastered, but modified using so-called grouting. A bridge over a moat led to each of the four city gates. Two opposite gates were always connected by a road that crossed the entire city. In the 13th and 14th centuries the original walls were replaced by baked brick walls, which were plastered throughout the area. In the 15th and 16th Centuries before the Lower and Upper Gates, rectangular barbicans were built for better protection. In the 18th century the defensive function of the walls disappeared. Smaller buildings were added to their interior walls or the walls were dismantled as building material. In the 19th century, the city gates were demolished for communication needs. Despite many interventions, a relatively large part of the fortification has been preserved to this day.

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Mirador

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Bazilika sv. Mikuláša (Basílica de San Nicolás)

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Katedrála svätého Jána Krstiteľa (Catedral de San Juan Bautista)

The largest and most luxurious church in Trnava is the two-towered St. Petersburg Church. Ján Krstiteľ, the first building in Slovakia built in a new style: Baroque, inspired by the church of the Jesuit University in Vienna. The construction of this monumental temple not only meant prestige for the city, but also became a model for a new concept of sacred architecture throughout the country. The representative temple of the Jesuit University of Trnava, relatively simple on the outside, but resplendent with colors and gold on the inside, was built in the years 1629-1637 by the Jesuit archbishop Peter Pázmaň on the site of the demolished Gothic Dominican church. Craftsmen from Trnava and its surroundings participated in the basic construction works; In addition to the city's brick factory, bricks were also supplied by the community of Anabaptists (Habanos) of Dechtice. However, the artistic decoration was entrusted to foreign masters: the Italian plasterers GB Rooso, G. Tornini, Pietro Antonio Conti and the Viennese painters Carl Ritsch and Franz Joseph Graffenstein worked for more than half a century on the spectacular stucco decoration, whose monograms They are incorporated directly into two frescoes. The dominant feature of the interior is the monumental high altar, considered the largest early baroque altar in Central Europe. But the main significant element of the interior is the story of the life of the church's patron, Saint Peter. John the Baptist, developed from his birth to his martyrdom in the line of images on the main altar and the four oval mirrors in the center of the vault. In addition to artistic wealth, music was an integral part of all solemn religious services and academic ceremonies. A two-story bandstand was created for a large musical ensemble. One of the floors probably belonged to the instrumentalists, the choir composed mainly of students and seminarians, together with soloists, had the second floor at their disposal. The main source of financing for the expensive construction came from the patron, the palatine Mikuláš Esterházy of Galanta, and his son Pavol continued his work. However, also sadly connected with the history of the church are other palatine sons, the brothers Ladislav, František, Gašpar and Tomáš, who after their death in the battle of Vozokany were buried in the local crypt with great fanfare and with the participation of representatives from across the kingdom. Currently the church is the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Trnava.

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Katedrála svätého Jána Krstiteľa (Catedral de San Juan Bautista) - Pápež Ján Pavol II

In December 1978 Pope John Paul II established the church as the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Trnava. The name of the archdiocese was changed in 1995 to the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava and in 2008 it changed again to the Archdiocese of Trnava. Pope John Paul II visited the cathedral on November 9, 2003.

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Pomník SNP (Monumento SNP)

- Monument to the Slovak National Uprising on University Square (Monumento al levantamiento nacional eslovaco en la plaza de la Universidad)

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Trnavská univerzita v Trnavě (Universidad de Trnava en Trnava)

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Lunch Time

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Murallas

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