Bratislava
BRATISLAVA TOWN
with its St. Martin`s Cathedral is the capital of Slovakia, dramatically set on both banks of the Danube River. The oldest written evidence mentioning the town is dated 907. Here King Mathias Corvinus founded the Academia Istropolitana in 1465. I 1525 Bratislava became a coronation town of Hungary.
MAIN SQUARE.
The historic centre of old Bratislava with the Old Hall, an originaly Gothic
palace built in the 14th-15th centuries, and then several times rebuilt. In its
iterior it houses the Town Museun. Among the houses lining the square the most
impertant is the Kutschersfeldd Palace built in 1762 in Rococo style. The
square is dominated by the Rolands Fountain with
Roland`s statue by the sculptor Ondrej Luttringer.
Museums
- Bratislava - Music Museum
- Bratislava - Museum of Fellow-Countrymen MS
- Svaty Jur - Literary and Homeland Museum 20 km
- Pezinok - Little - Carpathian Museum 28 km
- Bratislava - City Museum
- Pezinok - Municipal Museum 28 km
- Bratislava - Museum of Transport
- Stupava - Ferdis Kostka Museum 17 km
- Bratislava - Museum of the Carpathians Germans Culture
- Bratislava - Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia
- Bratislava - Milan Dobes Museum
- Bratislava - Museum of Trade
- Bratislava - Police Museum
- Bratislava - Museum of Education and Pedagogy
- Bratislava - Museum of Physical Culture in Slovak Republic
- Bratislava - Museum of Jewish Culture
- Bratislava - Natural History Museum
- Bratislava - Slovak National Museum
Castles
- The Devín Castle 10 km
- Bratislava Castle
- Pezinok Castle 28 km
Accommodation Bratislava
