Marianka has been part of the independent Slovak Republic since 1 January 1993. On 31 July 2011 Pope Benedict XVI raised the pilgrimage church to a basilica minor — an honorary title the Catholic Church gives to churches of particular importance, and formal recognition of what this place had already been for six hundred years. The other change is one you can measure: 839 people lived here in 1910 and 1,297 in 2011, but by the end of 2025 there were 2,362, because Bratislava has spread up into the valleys and Marianka has become an expensive address. The main pilgrimage is still held around 8 September, the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, and on that weekend the valley is full.Od 1. januára 1993 patrí Marianka do samostatnej Slovenskej republiky. 31. júla 2011 povýšil pápež Benedikt XVI. pútnický kostol na baziliku minor — čestný titul, ktorý katolícka cirkev dáva kostolom mimoriadneho významu, a formálne uznanie toho, čím miesto už šesťsto rokov bolo. Druhá zmena sa dá zmerať: v roku 1910 tu žilo 839 ľudí, v roku 2011 ich bolo 1 297 a ku koncu roka 2025 už 2 362 — Bratislava sa rozliala do dolín a bývanie v Marianke zdraželo. Hlavná púť býva stále okolo 8. septembra, na sviatok Narodenia Panny Márie, a v ten víkend je dolina plná.
