History and Architecture

Guest house Atrium was rebuilt from an old Renaissance house dated back to the second half of the 16th century. In the basement you can see original stone barrel vaults and on the first floor original wooden joist ceilings marked with datings from years 1683 and 1765. There is also a Toscana half-column with a cap carrying a stone console. You can find it in the southern room of the first floor. The town of Poprad was gradually established from 5 different small towns. The royal town of Spišská Sobota was the wealthiest one of them. [show_more more=”Read more…” less=”Read less…” color=“#026b23“]The first name of the town was Forum Sabathe (Saturday market). The first written evidence of the town of Spišská Sobota comes from 1256. Different forms of trade were concentrated in Spišská Sobota and consequently the city was also a seat of guilds and centre of cultural life. Later it became a centre of local authorities of 5 Upper towns of Spiš too. Intact medieval architectural character and town monument reservation nowadays represents a unique collection of Gothic and Renaissance architecture. Gothic Catholic Church of Saint George dominates the square of Spišská Sobota and its Gothic altar made in the atelier of Master Paul from Levoča belongs to European cultural jewels.

Maurice Benyovszky

We are proud that one of the houses of today’s Atrium Pension is associated with the person of the traveler, King of Madagascar and Officer Maurice Benyovszky (September 20, 1746 Vrbové, Trnava District – May 23, 1786 Mauritania, People’s Republic of Madagascar). After a short stay in the war in 1764, 1767-1768 moved to Spiš. he married the Spišska Sobota native Zuzana Hönsch (1750 – 1815), the daughter of a butcher. In 1768 he organized in villages that belonged to the so-called. “Polish advance” military unit, which was intended to support the efforts of the Polish nobility to overthrow the then Polish King. This fact was responded by the then governor, who lived in the castle of Ľubovňa and sent to Maurice Benyovszky 6 claws, who brought him to Ľubovňa castle in chains and there he was imprisoned at least until the end of 1768.