St. Elizabeth's Cathedral

The cathedral was built in the high Gothic style and stands in the place of the former parish church which was destroyed by fire around 1370. Building of St. Elizabeth's Cathedral commenced around 1378 and was built in several stages. It is believed that buildings works were completed on the cathedral in 1508, meaning that the building took more than one hundred years to build. The present appearance of the Cathedral has retained its five wings with a crossing of the main wing and transept and polygonal presbytery. St. Elizabeth's Cathedral was declared a national cultural site together with Urban's Tower and St. Michael's Chapel. St. Elizabeth's Cathedral will serve as an area for implementing various programme aims in 2013.
Selected projects under preparation:
1. Musica Ex Archivo - concerts by the Choir of St. Cecelia and Gregoriana. A presentation of high quality 18th Century spiritual music in cooperation with top artists from around Europe (January - December).
2. Festival of Sacral Art - a successful, traditional festival of spiritual music in Košice (October).
3. Ivan Sokol's International Organ Festival - for more than forty years, the Košice State Philharmonic Orchestra has been performing high quality organ pieces (November).
4. Altar of the Master from Okoličné - reconstruction of the Marian altar of Blessed Virgin Mary in Košice (1516) from the master of Gothic paintings from the village of Okoličné (April - December).
5. Missa - a musical project of the Košice State Philharmonic Orchestra from the Polish composer Leszek Mozdzer (December).
6. Seven last words - symphony from J. Haydn under the conductorship of the Spanish composer, violinist and conductor, Jordi Savall (January - March).