A visit to the Hippology Museum in Topoľčianky will show you the world of horses and people. It is the only museum of this type in Slovakia.
The museum was established in 1989 in Topoľčianky in the building of the former municipal culture centre. The person that contributed to its establishment the most was a prominent Slovak hippology expert and an organizer of horse riding and horse races in Slovakia with many years of experience, Ing. Vladimír Hučko, CSc.
Visitors to the Hippology Museum can obtain information from photo documentation - about the former and new premises of the horse-breeding farm, personalities that contributed to the development of horse breeding the most and about sports successes.
Besides other exhibits, the museum is proud of a laurel wreath with a blue ribbon with which a sorrel mare Arva was decorated in Prague Velka Chuchle (1988). Exhibits also include a jacket of the winner of Velká pardubická steeple chase in 1955, Jozef Čajda with thoroughbred stallion 19/51 Furioso XIV.
Horse collars, saddles, varied types of harnesses, blacksmith equipment and more than 2,000 other exhibits can catch the interest of small visitors. There is an exhibition of coaches and carriages in the courtyard.
| Monday – Friday | 09:00 – 14:00 |
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| Saturday – Sunday | 14:00 – 16:00 |
Prehliadka na objednávku je možná v pracovný deň po 14,00 h. a mimo turistickej sezóny(1.11.-30.4.).
The village of Topoľčianky, which is located north of the western Slovak town of Zlaté Moravce at the foothill of the Tribeč Mountains, boasts an extensive English garden, which features a picturesque Classicist-style manor house that forms the southern wing of an old castle.
Several kilometres north of Topoľčianky in the Tribeč Mts. in west of Slovakia are the ruins of the Hrušov Castle towering on top of the Skalka Mt. at the height of 488 m.
In the middle of the fields near Veľké Vozokany, not far from Zlaté Moravce in the sout-west of Slovakia, a bronze lion erects from a stone pedestal. It commemorates the battle between the Turkish and the Hungarian armies in 1652.
The exceptionally valuable pre-Romanesque church of St George from the 10th century demonstrates the rich history and culture of the region of Ponitrie. Its architecture is the oldest complete pre-Romanesque one in the territory of Slovakia. Its interior contains the remains of the Romanesque and Gothic wall paintings from the 11th century (the oldest in Slovakia) and the Romanesque stone baptistery.
A neoclassical manor house, which is located in an extensive and quiet park in the village of Beladice - Pustý Chotár a mere few kilometres outside Nitra, is home to an extraordinary gallery.
Above the village Jelenec in the Tribeč Mts. in west of Slovakia, at the height of 514 m there are ruins of the originally Gothic Gýmeš Castle, built in the second half of the 13th century on the site of an older fort.
This 16th-century, Renaissance-style manor house in the village of Oponice, which lies near the city of Nitra in western Slovakia, is bound to attract scores of art and history lovers.
Počuli ste už o lokalite Fidvár pri Vrábľoch? Jedná sa o praveké sídlisko, ktoré vzniklo tým, že ľudia niekoľko tisícročí sídlili na jednom mieste, terén upravovali, planírovali, navážali a podobne. Má rozlohu viac ako 20 hektárov a je teda väčšia ako Mykény, či maloázijská Trója!
Nitra, everything that you have ever wanted to know about agriculture can be found here. An open-air museum, Nitra open field of railway and a library are also part of it. The museum covers an area of over 30 hectares.
