Slovakia, the symbol of which became the stately four-winged manor
house. The original Renaissance plan,view dates back to the former half of the l7th century.
The fort-like features of the manor house were emphasized by towers on the corners and an attic,
as well as by an entrance with a draw-bridge over a moat. The Baroque period rooms with luscious
wall paintings became the dominant part of the current museum exhibition. Alexander Andrassy
did away with the architec- a tonic incongruity of the manor house. On the verge of the l9th and
20th centuries he gave the manor house its present neo-Baroque look and installed a park around it.
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