The main square of Kremnica is unusually handsome — long and gently sloping, lined with old burgher houses in various states of faded glory, with the castle complex rising at the upper end and the Holy Trinity Plague Column standing at its center. It is the kind of square that rewards simply sitting on a bench and taking in the layers of history around you.
The Holy Trinity Plague Column was erected in 1765 as a memorial to the victims of plague epidemics that repeatedly devastated the town in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is an exuberant piece of Baroque sculpture with figures of saints and angels rising in tiers above the square. The surrounding houses date mostly to the 16th and 17th centuries, many of them built by wealthy mine-owners, and several have fine Renaissance portals and arcaded courtyards.