Rožňava is a town in Slovakia, approximately 71 kilometres (44 miles) by road from Košice in the Košice Region, and has a population of 19,182.

The town is an economic and tourist centre of the Gemer. Rožňava is now a popular tourist attraction with a beautiful historic town centre. The town is an episcopal seat. It has above all food, textile and remnants of mining industries.

Noteworthy buildings

• an important Mining Museum
• a completely preserved medieval central town square with burgher houses
• the Cathedral (Gothic, late 13th century) with many precious historic art objects, especially a Renaissance painting of Mestercia showing realistic mining motifs
• the Town Tower (Renaissance, 1654) in the middle of the central town square
• the Jesuit church (Baroque, 1687)
• the Bishop’s residence (Baroque-Classical, arose 1778 from older houses) with a plague column in front of the building
• a town hall (Classical, 1711)
• an Evangelic Lutheran church (Classical, 1786)
• a Reformed church (neo-Gothic, 1905)