Inside the old city preserved some of the most important public buildings such as the County's palace, and now government building (18th century), the former Pauline monastery complex with the parish church of St. Anne (17th century), the oldest city church of St. Cross (mentioned in the 13th century), the building of the City Museum (17th and 18th centuries) and the former old assembly hall, and now Art Gallery (18th century).

The old town consists of private and other (mostly owned by Jews) and public buildings built in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, which are located along the main street with nice Zakmardijevu fronts in the neo-Romanesque, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-baroque, classicism and art nouveau style.
A prominent example of expressionist architecture in the northern Croatian Croatian building a home that was designed by architect Stephen Podhorská, and completed in 1914. year. It contains the hall for performances, music schools and cultural institutions of the city.

Within the old town center occupied Nemcicev Square, designed as a city park. On it in 1899. erected a bust of the Illyrian poet and travel writer Anthony Nemcic, sculptor Rudolf Valdec.