Town Castle Kremnica

Kremnica, Slovakia, Slovakia

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Town Castle Kremnica in Kremnica, Slovakia, is a unique medieval complex from the 13th–15th centuries built around a late Romanesque church of St. Catherine on a fortified hill to protect the town's vital gold and silver mint operations. It features a double ring of defensive walls with buttresses, slit loopholes, a northern four-sided gate tower, semicircular Miners’ Tower housing a chapel, and integration with the town’s well-preserved fortifications, never captured militarily but damaged by fire in 1560 and later rebuilt. The site underwent Neo-Gothic renovations in the 1880s and now serves as part of the Museum of Coins and Medals, showcasing Renaissance elements like Tuscan columns and a pink marble baptistery amid its national cultural heritage status.