Bratislava — Palaces, churches and museums

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Bratislava, Slovakia · 19 places documented
Bratislava — Palaces, churches and museums

Bratislava holds 19 places documented in this archive, among them Arena Theatre, Aspremont Summer Palace and Blue Church (St Elisabeth), Bratislava.

What this page is

This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Bratislava, Slovakia: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.

Key facts

  • Country: Slovakia
  • Places in this archive: 19
  • Centre of the documented entries: 48.1356°N, 17.1133°E

Places documented in Bratislava

  • Arena Theatre — One of Bratislava's oldest theatres, established in 1828 as an amphitheatre on the Danube.
  • Aspremont Summer Palace — A 1770 baroque palace in Bratislava's Old Town, built for Count d'Aspremont-Lynden and now serving as the dean's office for Comenius Univers
  • Blue Church (St Elisabeth), Bratislava — A church of cake-icing blue, from mosaic roof to pastel walls – Odon Lechner's Hungarian Secession fantasy and the most photographed buildin
  • Bratislava Castle — Bratislava Castle is a four-towered fortress dominating the city's skyline from a rocky outcrop above the Danube River, with views across Sl
  • Bratislava City Gallery — Slovakia's second-largest public gallery, occupying Mirbach and Pálffy palaces in Bratislava's Old Town with 35,000 artworks from the 19th c
  • Bratislava Old Town — Bratislava Old Town is the historic Baroque and medieval core of the Slovak capital, a compact pedestrianised district on the left bank of t
  • Bratislava Transport Museum — Transport museum opened in 1999 on the site of Bratislava's first steam-railway station, preserving the city's rail heritage.
  • Episcopal Summer Palace, Bratislava — A baroque palace in Bratislava that served as a summer residence for the Archbishops of Esztergom and now houses the Slovak government.
  • Esterházy Palace (Bratislava) — A Neo-Renaissance palace in Bratislava's Old Town, now home to the Slovak National Gallery, restored in the 1920s and 1950s to accommodate i
  • Gerulata — A Roman military camp near Bratislava that guarded the empire's Danube frontier from the 2nd to 4th century, now a UNESCO World Heritage Sit
  • Grassalkovich Palace — Slovakia's presidential residence, this 18th-century Rococo palace on Hodžovo Square showcases Late Baroque elegance and a French garden.
  • Johann Pálffy Palace — A refined late Classicist palazzo in Bratislava's Old Town, originally the seat of Pozsony county and now home to the Bratislava City Galler
  • New Scene — New Scene, Bratislava's post-war theatre founded in 1945, specializes in musicals, comedies and fairy tales.
  • Pálffy Palace (Ventúrska Street) — A Baroque palace built in 1747 for a Habsburg general on Bratislava's Ventúrska street, with a relief-carved portal and archaeological layer
  • Primate's Palace, Bratislava — A neoclassical palace in Bratislava where the 1805 Peace of Pressburg was signed, now serving as the mayor's official seat.
  • Radisson Blu Carlton Hotel — Bratislava — The oldest hotel in Slovakia, opened in 1837 at the heart of the city then known as Pressburg — with a guest book that includes Thomas Ediso
  • Red Crayfish Pharmacy — A 16th-century baroque pharmacy in Bratislava's Old Town, now a museum preserving Renaissance-era apothecary practice with original furnishi
  • Rusovce Mansion — A 16th-century manor house in Bratislava with Tudor and Neogothic styling, now state property amid contested restitution claims by the Bened
  • St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava — Bratislava's dominant Gothic cathedral served as the coronation church of Hungarian kings from 1563 to 1830.

Sources

The entries listed above are the source of the counts, the names and the position on this page.

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