Pozsony

Pálffy Palace

Building, structure

The palace is located on the corner of Ventur and Zöldszoba streets. The house, which occupies several former medieval plots, is built in a closed row on the street front. The palace, with a rectangular floor plan adapted to irregular corner plots, has a three-story, gabled roof,... Read More

Pálffy Palace

Building, structure

Built on the western border of the Kingdom of Hungary, Bratislava, with a long history, was inhabited in the Middle Ages by mostly German and to a lesser extent Hungarian citizens. The previously not particularly prominent city gained national importance when the Turks occupied t... Read More

Jesenák Palace

Building, structure

One of the elegant buildings on the Main Square, built in the 18th century by the baron Jeszenák family, who owned extensive estates in Bratislava County, on the site of a medieval house that previously stood here. The two-storey, gable-roofed palace, which adapts to the corner p... Read More

Greenhouse house

Building, structure

Zöldszoba Street “took its current name after the house called Zöldszoba (Gruenstubl), which stands on the corner of today’s Deák and Zöldszoba Streets and which is often mentioned in 15th century wills. According to the city tax books of 1550, this house was completely painted i... Read More

Marian Column

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

On Ferenciek Square, which opens from the main square of the medieval Old Town of Bratislava, directly in front of the main entrance to the church built for the Lutherans and later taken over by the Jesuits, there is a Baroque-style, stone-carved Mary column. ; On the surfaces of... Read More

The millennium tree in Batthyány Square

Other - other

"This beautifully proportioned square of the Old Town, in the middle of which the millennium tree planted in 1896, promising proportional hope for the political successes of the second millennium, is blooming..." we can read from the pen of Tivadar Oltvay. ; At the end of the 18t... Read More

Roland Fountain

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

In the Middle Ages and later, cities and towns were distinguished from other municipalities by the special rights granted to them. Written records of the privileges and rights expressed in the privileges were kept in archives, city libraries and museums, but they have also surviv... Read More

Statue of Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The erection of the statue of the famous Bratislava-born composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was initiated by the city's Freemasonry lodge, the Silence (Zur Verschwiegenheit), in 1878, on the occasion of the celebrations organized for the centenary of the composer's birth.... Read More

Palugyay Palace

Building, structure

The building referred to as the Palugyay House was built by one of the sons of Jakab Palugyai (Bratislava innkeeper, owner of the Zöldfa Hotel, Liptov County landowner), Ferenc, based on the plans of Viktor Rumpelmayer. ; “On the corner of Főtér- and Zöldszoba Streets, stood a ta... Read More

Statue of Saint Elizabeth of the Árpád dynasty

Statue, monument, memorial plaque

The full-length bronze statue of Saint Elizabeth of the Árpád dynasty can be seen in the courtyard of the Bratislava Castle. Saint Elizabeth holds roses in her left hand and gives bread to a lying beggar with her right hand. The statue was completed with a bronze information boar... Read More