Modra is a city and municipality in the Bratislava Region in Slovakia. It has a population of 9,042 as of 2018. It nestles in the foothills of the Malé Karpaty (Little Carpathian mountains) and is an excellent centre of hiking.
Modra is famous for its pottery industry. Its blue-and-white porcelain is famous throughout Slovakia. It is also known as one of the most important viticulture centres in the Little Carpathians region.
Besides the main town, there are also other adjacent settlements incorporated in the municipality: former vassalage viticulture village Kráľová and two recreational hamlets of Harmónia and Piesok (also known as Zochova Chata), both located in the woods of Little Carpathians mountains.
Landmarks
Memorial plate of Ľudovít Štůr on the Museum wall
- Modra Observatory of the Comenius University in Bratislava near Modra-Piesok
- A grave memorial museum (with an external exhibition “Štúrova izba” (memorable room of Štúr) and statue of Ľudovít Štúr, who died here in 1856
- Remains of the former fortifications: a bastion (with a gallery of Ignác Bizmayer, pottery master) and the “Upper Gate”, the only one of three original town gates to be preserved
- A country castle just behind the upper gate; seat of the vineyard school
- A Renaissance building from the end of the 17th century
- the present-day workshops specialising on the Modra ceramics
- Churches:
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen the King from years 1873–1876 on the market square
- Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist from the 2nd half of the 14th century at the cemetery with the names of victims of the First World War
- Evangelical church of Augsburg Confession (“German church”) from 1714, present-day form since 1834
- Evangelical church of Apostles Peter and Paul (“Slovak church”) from 1715, present-day form since 1826, standing near the “German church”
- small Baroque chapel of Mary Immaculate from 1740, standing in front of the evangelical churches
- Chapel of St. Michael from 1873
