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The front of Orlové mansion viewed from the left bank of the Váh. - Orlové / Vágzsigmondháza is located on the opposite (or right) bank of the Váh, in the goose-neck bend of the river; it now belongs to Povážská Bystrica. The two-storey mansion was built for Pál Balassa in 1733. It has 52 rooms and 365 windows and a church-sized chapel. The mansion was ravaged by a great fire in the 1850s. A tripartite arcade forms a balcony above the entrance. Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Waldenburg owned the building in the latter half of the century. - Bibliography: Fekete Nagy, Kerekes, Lovcsányi, Mednyánszky 1844, Mednyánszky 1981, Pechány, Strážovské vrchy