Monuments

 

Bardejov is a town in North-Eastern Slovakia. Historical square of Bardejov together with complex od buildings of the Jewish Suburbia were inscribed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List in 2000.

 

TOWN HALL SQUARE

Ancient town center of Bardejov was based on an irregular checkerboard ground plan. Core structure of the town consists of block of historic buildings divided by a regular street network adjoining the square. Town center consists of a rectangular square with an area of 260 x 80 meters, surrounded on three sides by 46 storeyed burgher houses with typical gable facades, built on typical narrow medieval plots, perpendicular to the square. The fourth, northern side, is dedicated to the town dominant - a Gothic parish church - Basilica minor of St. Egidius.