Village Museum - Holloko

Holloko is the treasure of Palocland, a village representing a uniform style of architecture, and has been preserved in the most intact shape in Central Europe. Its greatest value is the Old Village of 58 protected buildings, still preserving the touches of the 17th century folk architecture.
The local folk, the palóc people were living in homes built on narrow plots, usually several generations together. The houses are composed of three main sections (front room - kitchen - bedroom) with long and narrow covered terraces on both sides. The terraces have wooden columns supporting the roofs. The cellars of buildings were made with the purpose of eliminating the differences of levels, as a result of which they are integral parts of the houses. The pantries were attached to the houses from the outside and the yards also had separate pigsties built in them. Buildings suitable for having large-size animals in them were at the edge of the village ("Pajtásárok").
The houses you can see now were built after the great fire of 1909, but they had kept their original forms and still preserve the atmosphere of bygone ages.