Spišská Nová Ves (pronunciationⓘ; Hungarian: Igló; German: (Zipser) Neu(en)dorf) is a town in the Košice Region of Slovakia.

The town is located southeast of the High Tatras in the Spiš region, and lies on both banks of the Hornád River.

Tourist attractions nearby include the medieval town of Levoča, Spiš Castle and the Slovak Paradise National Park.

[4] Iglov is probably derived from a Slavic word igla (Proto-Slavic igъla, jьgъla, modern Slovak ihla) - a needle.

In the 13th centurty Saxon (Carpathian German) miners founded a town next to an earlier Slavic settlement.

After the Tatar invasion King Béla IV invited German colonists from the town of Jihlava and settled them here.

The bells made by Konrád Gaal are still hanging and form an important conlegacy of European Gothic metal foundry.

There were wheelwrights, coopers, weavers, joiners, gunsmiths, basketmakers, bakers, furriers, tanners, cooks and millers, hunters, fishermen and beekeepers.

In July 1929 the Podtatranská výstava (Sub-Tatras Exhibition) showed results of economic growth and made the town famous in Slovakia.

During World War II, Spišská Nova Ves was taken by Soviet troops of the 18th Army on 27 January 1945.

Spišská Nová Ves is a tourist destination today, both because of the town itself and because of the natural environment of the nearby Slovak Paradise mountains.

The bas-relief of the Virgin Mary's Coronation on the Gothic tympanum on the south portal of the church is considered to be amongst the most beautiful in the Spiš region.

The church contains several liturgical treasures : a cross-shaped silver (and partly gilded) reliquary by the Sienese court jeweller Nicolas Gallicus (first half of the 14th century - but the initials NC may also refer to a possible contributor Nicolaus Castellanus), a silver (partly gilded) crucifix and monstrance attributed to Antonio from Košice (early 16th century), a chalice by Jan Kolbenhayer (1795) and a rare bronze baptismal font (second half 13th century).

The church vaulted ceiling contains early renaissance paintings with the Evangelists and four angels playing on musical instruments.

Its façade includes the underpass "Levoca gate" with in the middle of its arch the crest of the Province of XVI Spiš towns.

The upper part of the façade is decorated with rococo stucco motives (rocaille) representing in Latin the moral qualities required of a town official : (from left to right) PONDERE SOLO (According to importance only), UTQUIS MERETUR (as one deserves), SUUM CUIQUE (give everyone his due), DIE NOCTUQUE (day and night), IN SOMNIS CUSTOS (guardian during sleep), HINC OCULOS NUSQUAM (not turning his eyes away).

The council chamber occupies two floors and is lavishly decorated with pilasters and sgraffito with motifs of drapery alternating with the city coat-of-arms.