paula soler-moya
Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
Banská Štiavnica's old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past, like the world’s first technical university devoted to Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy was founded here in 1762. UNESCO WHS description.
Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
Banská Štiavnica's old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past, like the world’s first technical university devoted to Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy was founded here in 1762. UNESCO WHS description.