Tisovec (Hungarian: Tiszolc, German: Theissholz or Theissholcz, Latin: Taxovia) is a town in central Slovakia.

The first written evidence of the town comes from the year 1334 during the reign of King Charles I of Hungary as Tizolc.

The name "Tisovec" comes from the yew tree (in Hungarian "tiszafa", in Slovak "tis"), which can be found in the hills around the town.

CSM Tisovec is a machine building company with 530 employees and annual turnover of 0.5 billion Korunas.

It is mostly a boarding school and has approximately 300 students Tisovec is twinned with: Tim Flakoll, Senator from North Dakota was among the volunteers who helped remodel and build the Christian Gymnasium in the early 1990s.