Bratislava travel guide

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   Bratislava Castle

   Castle above Bratislava, on a hill fortified since the Bronze Age. It burned out in 1811 and stood as a ruin for a hundred and fifty years before being rebuilt from 1956.

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   Carnuntum

   A Roman legionary fortress and city on the Danube east of Vienna, with a population that reached perhaps fifty thousand. Marcus Aurelius wrote part of the Meditations while campaigning from it, and a Roman quarter has been rebuilt on the excavated foundations, heated hypocausts and all.

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   Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising

   A cable-stayed bridge of 1972 with a single pylon carrying a flying-saucer restaurant eighty-five metres up. Its approach roads were driven straight through the old Jewish quarter, destroying the synagogue and most of the streets below the castle.

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   Devín Castle

   A castle on the cliff where the Morava joins the Danube, fortified since the Bronze Age and blown up by Napoleon's troops in 1809. The Iron Curtain ran directly beneath it, so the rock was a border watchpost until 1989 and is now a national symbol.

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   St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava

   A Gothic church that served as the coronation church of Hungary from 1563 to 1830, when Buda was under Ottoman occupation — eleven kings and eight queens were crowned in it. A gilded replica of the Hungarian crown, weighing three hundred kilograms, sits on the spire.

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   Slovak National Museum

   The national museum, founded in 1893 and now spread across eighteen branches — the Bratislava buildings hold the natural history and archaeology collections, and the castle above holds the historical museum.

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   Grassalkovich Palace

   A rococo palace of 1760 built for a Hungarian count, where Haydn conducted, and now the residence of the president of Slovakia. Its French garden behind is a public park with a Bratislava peculiarity: a fountain of the earth cracked open.

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   Church of St. Elisabeth

   Odon Lechner's Hungarian Secession church, finished in 1913 and washed in pale blue from its facade to the glazed roof tiles, which is why everyone calls it the Blue Church. It began as the chapel of the grammar school next door and honours Elizabeth of Hungary.

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   Slovak National Gallery

   The national gallery, founded in 1948, whose Bratislava premises join a baroque barracks to a brutalist 1970s extension known as the bridge. It reopened in 2022 after a rebuild that took over twenty years.

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    Bratislava Zoo

    The city zoo in a wooded valley below the Little Carpathians, holding around a thousand animals. It has a dinosaur park attached, which is what most of its visitors are actually there for.

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   Michael's Gate

   The only one of the medieval city gates still standing, its tower raised to fifty-one metres in the eighteenth century. Under the arch is a compass rose in the paving giving the distance to world capitals, and the tower holds a museum of weapons.

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   Primate's Palace

   A neoclassical palace of 1781 built for the archbishop of Esztergom. The Peace of Pressburg was signed in its Hall of Mirrors in December 1805 after Austerlitz, and six English tapestries of the 1630s were found walled up in it in 1903.

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   Schloss Hof

   A baroque palace in the Marchfeld near the Slovak border, bought by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1726 and later owned by Maria Theresa. Its terraced garden falls in seven levels to the Danube plain and has been restored to the 1720s planting.

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   Hlavné námestie

   The main square of the old town, with a Renaissance fountain of 1572 in the middle showing Roland, the city's protector. A bronze of a Napoleonic soldier leans on one of the benches, which is the most photographed object in Bratislava.

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   Kamzík TV Tower

   A television tower of 1975 on the Kamzík hill above the city, a hundred and ninety-six metres high with a revolving restaurant. The wooded ridge around it is Bratislava's nearest walking country.

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   Castra Gerulata

   A Roman auxiliary fort at Rusovce, built in the second century as part of the Danube frontier and abandoned in the fourth. Its remains were included in the World Heritage listing of the Danube limes in 2021.

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   Námestie Slobody

   A large square in Bratislava, known locally as Gotko. It stands near Kollár Square in front of the archbishop's summer palace, and its fountain was the largest built in socialist Czechoslovakia.

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   Summer Archbishop's Palace

   The archbishop of Esztergom's summer residence, from the years when Bratislava was the capital of Hungary and the seat of the primate. It is now the office of the Slovak government, and its garden is open.

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   Franciscan Church

   The oldest building surviving in the old town, consecrated in 1297 in the presence of the Hungarian king. Nobles were knighted in it during the coronations at St Martin's next door, and its Gothic chapel of St John survives behind the baroque interior.

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    Esterházy Palace

    A neo-Renaissance building put up in the 1870s in the old town of Bratislava near the Danube. It was altered in the 1920s and 1950s and serves as the Slovak National Gallery, forming an exhibition complex with the water barracks beside it and a modern wing.

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