Live Cams in Banská Štiavnica

Banská Štiavnica is a historic mining town in central Slovakia, set inside the caldera of an ancient volcano in the Štiavnica Mountains. Its old town and the surrounding monuments of silver and gold mining, including the artificial mining lakes known as tajchy, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1762 Empress Maria Theresa raised the town's mining school to an academy, which is regarded as one of the first technical universities in the world.