City Tower Trnava – St. Nicholas Basilica (Trnava) loop from Trnava

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City Tower Trnava – St. Nicholas Basilica (Trnava) loop from Trnava

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City Tower Trnava – St. Nicholas Basilica (Trnava) loop from Trnava

03:54

15.2km

50m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 8, 2026

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Start point

Train Station

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1.09 km

Trnava Town Hall

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Town hall (Mestská radnica) from 1793, on which you can discover the town's coat of arms from the 15th century. Trnava is one of the few European cities that has a coat of arms with Christ.

(Source: coeser.de/blog/index.php/2020/02/25/trnava-das-kleine-rom-der-slowakei/)

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1.20 km

City Tower Trnava

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The city tower is located in the center of the old town on Trinity Square. It was built in the 16th century (Renaissance style). When the weather is nice, you have a good view of the nearby small Carpathians.

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1.51 km

Trnava University

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The educational establishment, founded in 1635 as the Hungarian University of Tyrnau in Trnava and moved to Budapest in 1777, has no direct relationship with today's university in the city.

Founded in 1992 by the Republic of Slovakia, the university has five faculties. Four of them are located in Trnava and one in Bratislava.

In Trnava
Faculty of Philosophy and Art
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Health and Social Services
Faculty of Law

In Bratislava:
Faculty of Theology

(Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4t_Trnava)

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1.58 km

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Trnava)

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The church building is the first purely baroque church in today's Slovakia and was originally part of the building complex of the old Tyrnau University, hence the alternative name University Church. It was built by Jesuits and is considered the largest and most artistically significant building of the Counter Reformation in Slovakia. The building was financed by the palatine Nikolaus Esterházy and commissioned in 1629 from the Italian architects Antonio and Pietro Spazzi. The unfinished church was consecrated in 1637.

The cathedral is a hall church with pilasters between which there are chapels. The representative double tower front forms the western end, the straight altar wall the eastern end. The building is 61 meters long and 28 meters wide. Above the main portal there is a shield with figurines of seated angels and the stone coat of arms of the Esterházy family.

The main room has a barrel vault with lunettes, the side chapels have cross vaults.

The heart of the cathedral is the wood-carved altarpiece, completed in 1640 and filling the entire east wall, the work of the Austrian masters B. Knilling and V. Knoth as well as the Tyrnauer V. Stadler and the master Ferdinand von Cífer. It is 20.3 meters high and 14.8 meters wide. The ornamentation of the church is the work of the Italian masters G.B. Rossa, G. Tornini, and P. Conti. The ceiling fresco is by Carl Ritzch and Franz Iohanes Graffenstein.

The church originally not only had a worship function, but also served as a university auditorium for doctorates, for example.

In 1978 the church was elevated to the status of cathedral of the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, which was established in the previous year. In 2003 she visited Pope John Paul II.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathedrale_des_heiligen_Johannes_des_T%C3%A4ufers_(Trnava)

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13.7 km

St. Nicholas Basilica (Trnava)

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n the place of a previous Romanesque building, the Nikolaus-Dom in its current dimensions was built from 1380 to 1421 in late Gothic style. The university church, which was built later, was also based on the length of 60 meters, the width of 31 meters and the height of 18 meters. The renaissance helmets, which were placed on the two towers in the middle of the 16th century, are characteristic of the outward appearance.

With the ribbed vaults in the main and side aisles, the interior of the cathedral still retained its essential effect as a Gothic building. In later centuries, however, it underwent various modifications and additions. Between 1618 and 1630, Cardinal Peter Pázmány had Baroque side chapels added and the furnishings largely redesigned in Baroque style. The richly carved pews were built in the Rococo and in 1798 Josef Zanussi created the classical main altar. The upper storeys are decorated with neo-Gothic paintings. Some frescos from the 15th century have been preserved in the vestibule. In some places the Gothic brick masonry has been made visible again.

Archbishop Imre Eszterházy had the Austrian architect Lucas Hildebrandt add an octagonal baroque chapel with a separate entrance on the north-west side from 1739 to 1741, in which the miraculous image of St. Mary of Trnava (see below) is kept on a columned altar.

After Hungary became largely Turkish in the early 16th century, Nicholas Cathedral became the Hungarian cathedral and seat of the Archbishops of Esztergom from 1543 to 1820. It was then again from 1918 to 1977 the seat of a bishop. When the Archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava was established in 1977, however, the university church was designated as the seat of the archbishop. In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI. the St. Nicholas Cathedral to the Basilica minor.

(Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus-Dom_(Trnava))

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13.8 km

Orthodox Synagogue Trnava

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As one of the few cities in Slovakia, Trnava has two well-preserved synagogues, both dating from the end of the 19th century. After the National Congress in Budapest in 1868, after three Jewish currents – Status quo ante, Neologism and Orthodoxy – had formed, a group of the Eastern Church also separated from the original religious community in Trnava in 1881, wanting to live according to original Jewish principles. In the burgher house at the intersection of Kapitulská and Haulíková streets, they founded their own school, and later a synagogue on a plot behind the house. The exact year of construction is not known, but it is already marked on the city map from 1895, so it must have existed by this year at the latest. It is built, just like the Status quo synagogue, in accordance with the regulations at the time, in the depth of the plot, at a sufficient distance from the street line. The Orthodox Synagogue, also called the "Small Synagogue" due to its small dimensions, is a west-east oriented hall building without towers, with women's galleries supported by cast-iron columns in its interior. In addition to these, some original historicized art-craft details and remnants of the original painting have been preserved. The continuity of the Jewish community's existence was interrupted by the rise of fascism in 1939. After World War II, the synagogue was preserved only briefly, and its original function faded at the beginning of the 1950s. Since then, it has been used for various utilitarian purposes, mainly storage, and for many years it fell into disrepair. At the beginning of the 1990s, the village restored the synagogue, and finally it was sold into private ownership. It underwent a complete reconstruction, and after decades it is accessible to the public again. The revitalization of the synagogue, even if not with its original function, but with new cultural and social utilization, is a relatively unique achievement in a peripheral area, like the renewal of Jewish architectural monuments in Slovakia.

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13.9 km

Status Quo Ante Synagogue Trnava

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The building at Halenárska Street 2 was built according to plans by the Viennese architect Jakob Gartner (1861–1921). After the Second World War and the murder of most of the Jews, it fell into disrepair over the years. It was renovated in 1990, deliberately keeping visible signs of decay. A few years later a major renovation took place, deviating from this approach. Today the building houses a center for contemporary art and a JUDAICA exhibition on the women's gallery

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-quo-ante-Synagoge_(Trnava)

In front of the status quo ante synagogue, a memorial commemorates the victims of the Holocaust.

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14.5 km

Church of St. Helena

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Die gotische Kirche der Heiligen Helena ist die älteste stehende Kirche Trnavas. Sie entstand an der Jahrhundertwende vom 13. zum 14. Jahrhundert, vermutlich hatte diese Kirche auch einen älteren Vorläufer. Die Kirche durchmachte mehrere Umbauten. Schon gegen Jahre 1400 wurde zum Heiligtum ein Abaton zugebaut und zu der Fassade eine Eingangswindfandtür mit einer Aedikula für die Skulptur der Patronin der Kirche, der heiligen Helena, die ursprünglich von beiden Seiten mit gemalten Gestalten umgeben wurde. Auf der Sakristei erschien neuer Turm. In der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhundert wurde die Kirche um Nebenkapelle vergrößert, die ältere Schiffseindeckung wurde durch eine Wölbung mit der Stuckdekoration ersetzt und das Interieur wurde um eine Musikempora bereichert. Im folgenden Jahrhundert entstand ein Predigerstuhl und Nebenaltäre, in den Altar kamen gemalte Flügel aus dem älteren spätgotischen Altar hinzu. Aus dem Ende 19. Jahrhunderts stammen die Vitragen und der Hauptaltar. Die Kirche war ein Teil des auf der nördlichen Seite liegenden Spittels. Diese sozial-caritative Einrichtung entstand auf dem südlichen Stadtrand bei dem Unteren Stadttor schon im 13. Jahrhundert. Ursprünglich wurde sie von einem Orden mit sozialer Orientierung verwaltet, der damals in der Stadt tätig war, später leistete diesen Dienst die Stadt selbst. Den älteren, schwächeren und armen Einwohnern gewährte der Orden um sonst das Obdach und wenn es notwendig war, dann auch die Krankenpflege. Im 18. Jahrhundert, vor der Krankenhausentstehung, übten die Studenten der medizinischen Fakultät der Trnava Universität ihre Praxis gerade hier. Der Bettenbereich war ein großer Saal, und obwohl seine Kapazität für mittelalterliche Verhältnisse hinreichend war, waren Anfang 19. Jahrhunderts die 8-16 Betten nicht mehr genug. Auch der Stadtarzt in seinem Protokoll aus dem Jahre 1834 stellte fest, dass die Situation nicht ideal ist, wenn sich in einem Zimmer die Gesunden mit den Kranken und Sterbenden drücken. Es dauerte vier Jahre lang, bis über den Umbau endgültig entschieden wurde. Für die Bauarbeiten war Bernard Grünn verantwortlich, der Autor des Aufbaus von Trnava Theater und Gespanschaftskrankenhaus. Das ursprüngliche Spittel und das Nachbarhaus waren in ein Gebäude geeint. Das Gebäude bekam eine repräsentative klassizistische Fassade, später wurde es in heutige neostillische Form transformiert.

(Quelle: vitajtevtrnave.sk/de/register/kirche-der-heiligen-helena)

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