Levoča, Spiš Castle and the associated cultural monuments
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How it came to be
The Spiš region of eastern Slovakia keeps towns and villages of a medieval Saxon settlement. Spiš Castle, on its hill, is one of the largest castle sites in eastern Europe, with 13th- and 14th-century military, political and religious buildings in Romanesque and Gothic form.
The castle was rebuilt in the 15th century and passed to the Szapolyai, Thurzo and Csáky families. It burned in 1780 and has been a ruin ever since. Below it lie Spišské Podhradie, the church town of Spišská Kapitula and the village of Žehra.
In 2009 the site was extended to Levoča, a town founded within walls in the 13th and 14th centuries. Its 14th-century church of St James holds an altarpiece 18.6 metres high, completed around 1510 by Master Paul. The site was first inscribed in 1993.
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