Thurzo’s House

belongs to the oldest preserved profane buildings in Banská Bystrica. It is two-floored Renaissance building built on the old Gothic foundations.

Thurzo’s house Thurzo’s house in the square with a detail of the relief – an effigy of Ján Thurzo (?), which was once a part of the façade decoration of Thurzo’s house The house is finished by the attic and covered by Renaissance sgraffito façade. In the archive sources it is already mentioned in 1495, when miner - merchant Ján Thurzo from Betlanovce bought two houses in the square of Banská Bystrica from a reeve Ján Lang from Rožňava and he had them joined in rebuilding. The sign of Matej Korvín on the vault of “green parlour” in Thurzo’s house In the square there arose a representative house, which became the residence of the Thurzo-Fuggers’ trading company. On the ground floor and the first floor of the house there are situated two rooms with wooden beam ceilings. On the ground floor there is a unique room with a wagon vault, with The sign of Beatrix of Aragon on the vault of “green parlour” in Thurzo’s house fresco paintings from the second half of 15th century, so-called “green parlour”. The dating is based on two signs belonging to king Matej Korvín and his wife Beatrix of Aragon, situated in the crown line of the vault. The walls of the “green parlour” are decorated, along with floral motives, also by the figural scenes called “Dance with a bear”, “St George and a dragon”, “Daniel’s dream and discovering of the precious metal”, “Christ and Samaritan woman”, “Judgement Day”, “St. Barbara”, “Moses”, “Susan and the elds”, and more. In the presence there is installed a social-scientific exposition of the Central Slovakia Museum.