Dear guests, friends and history lovers.
During the entire twenty years of the reconstruction of the Castle and the Manor, my goal was to create a meeting place from this heritage from our ancestors. Thank you to everyone who stood by me throughout the tireless effort to resurrect this unique landmark. I also thank you, the visitors, for the beautiful responses that give me the strength to continue this work. I didn't want to create a museum stagnant in time, but a living monument. So that you can walk here and feel at home.
"Come to feel the difference." - "Prídťe pocítiť rozdiel."
Ing. Dagmar Machová
Castle´s owner
Friend´s comment:
Dagmar Machová - is not an ordinary woman. She is a worthy successor of Countess Magdalena Zai, who was bored of living in cold and uncomfortable, albeit beautiful Gothic castle. So she decided to build a Renaissance mansion with her husband, into which they moved in 1603. After Magdalena, owners, kings, Hungarian aristocrats often changed, but all of them only lived or sporadically maintained the Castle and Manor.
Symbolically, after 400 years, the "woman owner" came again, when Dagmar and I went to look at the abandoned mansion in 2001, over which the ruins of the castle towered majestically. And this beauty was uninhabited for decades, where piles of old fallen and damp walls only hinted at a glorious past. In a panic, I warned my childhood friend that to humanize and renovate this colossus, she would need not one, but dozens of lives and immense finances. However, Dagmar was excited from the first second, she could already visually imagine the end result and couldn't wait to start...
20 years of creative energy of a woman - a genius. She breathed new life into the ancient walls, created a space for Slovak culture and made the object accessible to all history lovers.
Today is 2022 and I am happy, that Dagmar was successfull.
Natasha Florean
Sydney/Bratislava
May 2022
