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Casta - Cerveny Kamen Museum (Castle)
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Casta – Cerveny Kamen Museum (Castle)

A preserved huge castle is situated on a quartz hill over a small village of Píla in the Small Carpathian Mountains. Originally, the king castle from the half of C13 functioned as part of a fortified castle line on the west border of Austria. Since the beginning of C16 the Thurzo family owned the castle, and since 1535 it was owned by the Fuggero family, which was then one of the richest family in Europe. A member of the family – Anton started a wide transformation of the castle into a fortress with large basement rooms that were to function as storehouses for goods transported to the west Europe. However, the castle never fulfilled its function. Since the end of C16 till 1945 it was owned by the Pálffy family. They rebuilt it and transformed it into a Renaissance-Baroque palace full of magnificent interiors. Nowadays you can see well-preserved interiors full of stuccos covered with sculpted apotheoses and scenes from mythology as well as a well equipped the Terrena chamber from the year 1656 created by an Italian artist J. Tencall. Since 1970 the castle has been the National Cultural Monument. After 17 years (in 1992) the museum opened its first exhibition entitled Collection of the Červený Kameň Museum. The south-west part was opened in 1993 and the south-east one in 1997.

A permanent exhibition of Historical Furniture and Weapons, which offers an overview of typical interiors from the 16th to the 19th centuries, together with examples of household accessories and all types of weapon, including Oriental weapons. A newly installed museum exhibition of the period living of the nobility has also been added. The castle chapel, historical library, castle pharmacy, and the knights' hall form a part of the exhibition.

Picture Gallery of the Castle, with a selection of pictures and graphics, representing unique historical works of art from Slovak and European sources.

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Surroundings

• Svaty Jur - Literary and Homeland Museum
• Pezinok - Little - Carpathian Museum
• Pezinok - Municipal Museum
• Casta - Cerveny Kamen Museum Castle
• Modra - Ludovit Stur Museum
• Pezinok - Gallery of Ingenuous Art
• Pezinok Castle
• Archbishop`s cathedral in Trnava
• Modra -Ignac Bizmayer Gallery
• Pezinok - Gallery of Ingenuous Art