he most popular and most visited place in the easternmost part of the Slovenský kras is the National Nature Reserve Zádielska tiesňava. Zádielska tiesňava always wins enquiries carried out among tourists when they are asked which of the Slovak valleys they consider the most romantic.
The length of the narrow is 2,200 m, its depth is 300 m (in places even 400 m) and the narrowest places in its bottom are only 10 m wide. It hardly accommodates the old asphalt road. It is deeply incised into the white limestone rock in the karstic plateaux of the Slovenský kras.
The conspicuous 105 metres rock attracts the glances of visitors. Its shape inspired its name - Cukrová homoľa (Sugar Cone).
Originally a Gothic tower was built beetwen the 14th and 15th centuries and later reconstructed in the Renaissance style. A bell, which was installed in the bell tower (his weight equals to 7 tones), was dedicated to St. Urban, the patron of viticulture. The bell was fused by bell founder Frantisek Illenfeld of Olomouc in 1557. It originates them of the bell of Sant's Urban was restored and placed in front of the tower.
It is of 1899 and made to construct it Peter Jakab, constructor and the owner of one bricks company. In 1945 the palace was the seat of the Czechoslovak president Benes.
The cathedral is one of the most beautiful Gothic structures in Slovakia. The present cathedral stands on a site formerly occupied by a parish church, which was destroyed by fire about 1370. The cathedral with five naves was restored various times and has changed is its interior and its exterior. In the last stage of the restoration it was constructed on the left side of the northern nave one crypt, where have been put the rests of Ferenc Rakoczi II in the 1906. Inside of the rich cathedral it attracts to the attention the main altar of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, dating from 1474-77, is a Late-Gothic polyptych, it is unique in Europe as it contains the largest amount of panel paintings-48 altogether-on one altar.
