The village is located at the foot of the southern slopes of the Low Tatras at an altitude of 520 meters above sea level.
It belongs to the Banská Bystrica District and is also part of the Central Slovak mountain region of folk culture.
The bordering municipalities of Baláže, Kynceľová, Nemce, Podkonice, Priechod, Selce, Slovenská Ľupča, and Špania Dolina are the other members of the microregion.
The total area of this microregion is 110 km2, it lies in the altitude range of 360 - 1250 m above sea level, and its member villages are home to approximately 8250 inhabitants.
Martina)[9] a single-nave church with a polygonal presbytery, classically oriented to the east, originally built in Podkonice sometime in the second half of the 14th century.