Čataj (Hungarian: Csataj) is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava region.

This typical agricultural village has fewer than 1000 inhabitants and is located aside from major roads, roughly between Senec and Trnava.

In the next few centuries the town and surrounding lands were given as gifts to several different families loyal to the Hungarian crown.

These artworks have been sold all over the world, and one of them is said to have served as Pope John Paul II's tablecloth.

Due to its quiet and slow life and its agricultural character, Čataj has been often used as backdrops for movies and other art by movie directors Martin Slivka and Martin Ťapák, the cinematographer, photographer and folk art collector Karol Plicka and others.