Calvary Banská Štiavnica is the most important Baroque calvary in Slovakia and probably even in the whole of Europe. This calvary is a complex of 3 churches and 22 chapels with precious painting decorations, furnished by wooden and blacksmith movables and wooden painted reliefs. All buildings of churches and chapels are set into the western side of a solid lava column in the middle of an ancient volcano – a hill named Ostrý vrch). The work was initiated by Jesuits in the 18th century as a par