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Old Town Hall ( Slovak: Stará radnica, Hungarian: Régi városháza) is a complex of buildings from the 14th century in the Old Town of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the oldest city hall in the country and it is one of the oldest stone buildings still standing in Bratislava, with the tower being built approximately in 1370.
World War II artillery at Partizánska lúka. Bratislavský lesný park or Bratislava Forest Park is a forest park (actually a forest) in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, located in the foothills of the Little Carpathians. Officially, it is part of numerous boroughs of Bratislava: Dúbravka, Karlova Ves, Záhorská Bystrica, Vinohrady, Old ...
The name probably comes from the Slavic personal name Radša / Radoslav or the Slavic stem vorč- / vrača (a fence). [1] [a] The name was adopted by Germans as Rechesdorf (literally Rača's village, 1390). The Germanized form had been used even by the Slovaks themselves, e.g., Račissdorf (1914), Račištorf (1920-1946) except for a short ...
The Bratislava Zoo ( Slovak: Zoologická záhrada Bratislava) is a zoo in Bratislava, Slovakia. It is located in the area of Mlynská dolina in the borough Karlova Ves. Opened in 1960, [1] it is the second oldest zoo in Slovakia. The zoo covers an area of 96 hectares (240 acres), out of which 35 hectares (86 acres) is open to the public.
Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, is divided into five national administrative districts ( Slovak: okres: I, II, III, IV, V) and into 17 boroughs ( Slovak: mestské časti; literally: city parts, also translated as (city) districts or wards). These boroughs vary in size and population, from the smallest Lamač and least populated ...
The station's main building before the addition of the foyer. Bratislava main railway station ( Slovak: Bratislava hlavná stanica, abbreviated as Bratislava hl.st.; German: Pressburg Hauptbahnhof; Hungarian: Pozsony főpályaudvar) is the main railway station of the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. [1] It averages about 60,000 passengers per day.
The Port of Bratislava ( Slovak: Prístav Bratislava) is a major port on the river Danube and — in a wider sense — on the Rhine-Main-Danube waterway, located in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is a universal inland port consisting of two parts, a cargo port and a passenger port. The former is a key facility for Slovakia's economy as ...
