Pozsony

St. Catherine's Chapel

Building, structure

Bratislava, with its long history, has housed several churches since its inception. In addition to the well-known, large church buildings, there are also many smaller, almost unvisited by tourists, but valuable churches and chapels. These include the St. Catherine's Chapel, hidde... Read More

Vashonvéd Bratislava

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

“The Vashonvéd stands rooted, tense, with its smart Hungarian head on its hard neck, looking ahead. The lion of the Carpathian battles, after having won the admiration of the whole world, has now received the halo here at home. On the feast of Pentecost, its very first statue wil... Read More

Michael's Gate

Building, structure

Michael's Gate is one of the four medieval gates that once protected Bratislava. It was named after the long-destroyed St. Michael's Church that once stood nearby and was later demolished, and the name of the settlement in front of the gate. From the "outskirts" the gate can be r... Read More

Bust of István Erdődi Pálffy

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue of István Erdődi Pálffy (June 3, 1828 – July 27, 1910), Count of Bratislava, Privy Councilor, and former Vice-President of the National Forestry Association, was inaugurated in 1913 on the square next to the Bratislava Theatre. The work was destroyed after World War I.... Read More

Bust of Franz Liszt

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In the heart of the city centre of Bratislava, from a small square at the western end of Urak Street, which was used as a cemetery until the end of the 18th century, we can reach the southern facade of St. Martin's Cathedral by a staircase built in the middle of a retaining wall ... Read More

Statue of Flóris Rómer

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

Art historian, painter, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Grand Provost-Canon of Oradea, one of the initiators of Hungarian archaeology and monument protection, his "father" and a defining figure in our 19th-century historiography, Rómer Flóris Fe... Read More

Nymph and deer fountain

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The statue stands free-standing in the long axis of the square, near its southern end, in a tree-lined avenue, approx. at the height of the connection to Rigele Street, named after the creator of the statue. ; In one of the representative, long squares of the city center, close t... Read More

Water barracks

Building, structure

Bratislava, rising at a strategic point in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Carpathian Basin, has had important military significance in all ages. Our Habsburg kings accordingly tried to constantly maintain a serious garrison in the city. The soldiers - according to modern custom -... Read More

Holy Trinity sculpture group

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

"The medieval settlement that developed on and around the castle hill, which preserves traces of ancient settlements, was the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary for three centuries from the 16th century. The Trinity statue group was erected in the 18th century on the former market... Read More

Neolog synagogue

Building, structure

There were still three synagogues in Bratislava half a century ago. The oldest, Orthodox synagogue, was demolished in the early 1960s, and the Neolog synagogue in the late 1960s. Only the Neolog synagogue on Heyduk Street, built in the 1920s, has survived, and it is still in oper... Read More