Gallery and Museum Fintice

The village of Fintice was founded as a village by a stream. Documented historical sources say that earlier in 1272 the village was a settlement of the royal border guards. In the basement of today's manor, a building was discovered that is clearly much older than the other stages of the construction of the manor and the entire complex. Narrow arrowslits, narrow doors leading to the eastern side of the tower, gothic, oblique arches of vaults and the vastness of the present cellar space create the oldest part of the building, then belonging to the first owner of Fintica, a nobleman from Slavonia, Komesa Gudu.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Darhol Family became the owners of the manor. During their reign , the manor house was rebuilt in the Renaissance style twice. It was then that the manor was enriched with a tower from the side of today's church, and a staircase with a beautiful Doric column appeared inside. Source materials suggest that the investors of the second phase of the renaissance of this reconstruction could have already been the Dessewffy family, which is mentioned as owners in the first decades of the 17th century.
The baroque reconstruction of the entire complex was impressive and no less costly. Reconstruction and supplementation of the original flat beam ceilings with massive baroque trough vaults with a rich stucco decoration of a ribbon ornament, reconstruction of the staircase, completion of economic wings on the eastern and western sides, completion of the northern wing. The second phase of the baroque reconstruction of the Fintice manor complex is related to the great construction activity of an outstanding member of the family, mayor Sarisz Samuel Dessewffy, who was also the patron of the church connected with the manor.