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This UNESCO World Heritage Site is a Roman Catholic wooden church with a Lutheran past from 15th century. This is the oldest wooden church and the best preserved in Slovakia. The building was built in a Gothic style. The church consists of choir, nave, sacristy and space under the bell tower. Its interior is decorated with panels of Gothic paintings and murals from 1655 and 1805. The exterior of the church remained almost unchanged, but the interior has undergone several modifications, into Baroque style following the reformation and during recatholization. The original painting was restored on the 1970s altar of St. Catherine. The Virgin Mary and St. Barbara, who dominate the church, were renovated in the 1990s. Additional properties like the original wings of altar, the tabernacle of the 16th century and a portable altar from 1514 are deposited in the National Museum in Budapest. The 1524 side altar is in the City Hall of Bardejov.
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The central square
Used to be the town’s medieval marketplace, now surrounded by well-preserved Gothic and Renaissance burghers’ houses.
Built in 1505. The lower part was built in the Gothic style, while the upper part was finished in the Renaissance style. This was the headquarters of the city council and also the center of the town's economic, social, and cultural life. In 1903, the town hall was adapted to serve as Saris Župa Museum, the oldest museum in Slovakia. A collection of local religious art across the centuries. Frankly, the collection at the Icons Museum is much better.
A monumental church, mentioned for the first time in 1247. A three nave basilica with multiple chapels was completed in 1464. It hosts eleven precious Gothic winged altars with panel paintings.
These date from the 14th and 15th centuries and are listed by the European Fund of Cultural Heritage as one of the most elaborate and best preserved medieval fortifications in Slovakia.