Culture and sights

Theatres

There are two theatres in Žilina: the City Theatre, and the Puppet Theatre

Museums

There are three museums in Žilina:

• Považská galéria (Museum of Art Žilina) 

• Považské múzeum (Považie museum), in the Budatín castle

• Múzeum židovskej kultúry (Museum of Jewish culture)

Sights

The historical centre of the city, reconstructed in the early 1990s is protected as a city monument reserve (Slovak: Mestská pamiatková rezervácia), It is centred on the Mariánske námestie and Andrej Hlinka squares. The Mariánske námestie square has 106 arcade passages and 44 burgher houses along the whole square.It is dominated by the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the old building of the city council, and the baroque statue of the Virgin Mary. Nearby is the Church of the Holy Trinity, a sacral building built around 1400, which is since February 2008 the cathedral of the Diocese of Žilina. Other landmarks in and around the city include:

• Budatín Castle, housing Považie Museum with tinker trade exhibition

• The wooden Roman Catholic church of St. George in the city part of Trnové (one of the few outside north-eastern Slovakia)

• The Church of St. Stephen the King, the oldest architectural landmark in Žilina

• The Orthodox synagogue, which now houses the Museum of Jewish culture