Many of Bratislava’s interesting landmarks are located beyond the historic city centre. Discover some of the most notable ones on a bus tour and see the city from different perspectives – from the Danube riverfront and its modern urban districts to the historic centre and residential villa quarter. The tour also includes a visit to the grounds of Bratislava Castle and the Slavín War Memorial.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
Step inside one of the most beautiful palaces in Bratislava’s historic city centre. Once the residence of the Archbishop of Esztergom, it is now the seat of the Mayor of Bratislava. During the tour, you will explore the palace’s grand interiors, including the Hall of Mirrors, learn about the 1805 Peace of Pressburg, and discover the story behind the precious tapestries, which form the only complete collection of their kind in the world.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
Discover Bratislava’s most important religious landmark and the coronation site of 18 members of the Habsburg dynasty as kings and queens of Hungary. During the tour, you will learn how the coronations took place and discover the stories behind some of the cathedral’s most important works of art, from the statue of St Martin on the main altar and the Pietà to works by Georg Raphael Donner. You will also visit the crypt and treasury and climb up to the choir loft, which houses a historic organ.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
Discover one of the city’s most prominent landmarks, which has towered over the Danube for centuries. During the tour, you will learn about its rich history, the reconstructions carried out under the Habsburgs, the devastating fire of 1811, and its subsequent restoration. You will also visit the exhibitions of the Slovak National Museum – Historical Museum, which explore the history of Slovakia and Bratislava Castle.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
The Jewish community has been an integral part of life in Bratislava since the Middle Ages. You will see sites that bear witness to the religious and social life of Bratislava’s Jews, as well as the stories of individual people and families. You will learn how the status of the Jewish community evolved over the centuries, which historical sites have been preserved, and how Bratislava commemorates the victims of the Holocaust.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
During the tour, you will discover the city’s most significant religious landmarks, learning about their history, architecture, and role in the lives of the local inhabitants. You will gain insight into the activities of religious orders, the periods of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Lutheran tradition, and the Slovak National Revival.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
Both in the past and today, Bratislava has been a place where prominent figures from the world of music have been active. Some musicians were born here and spent part of their lives in the city, while others arrived at the invitation of noble families. During this tour, you will follow in their footsteps and discover the places associated with them.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
For over 250 years, Bratislava served as the coronation city of the Kingdom of Hungary. During the tour, you will discover locations that were an integral part of the coronation procession, learn how the coronation of a Hungarian monarch took place, and understand what these grand festivities meant for Bratislava and its inhabitants.
How to Book a Guided Tour
To book a guided tour, email us at guides@visitbratislava.com.
What to expect
Go Bratislava Food Tours combine the city’s landmarks with stops at local restaurants, cafés and markets. A licensed local guide leads each walk, and every tour is a full meal rather than a few bites.
Groups are kept to eight people. Couples, families with children and solo travellers join the public tours, and private tours and company team-building are available too.
Experience highlights
- Traditional Food & City Tour: an Old Town walk with traditional Slovak dishes and local specialities
- Communist Era Food Tour: from the New Market Hall to the inverted pyramid of the Slovak Radio building, with socialist-era snacks and drinks
- Brunch and Cakes & Pastries: five stops each, including walnut and poppy seed pastries
- Vegan Food Tour: plant-based versions of Slovak dishes with non-alcoholic wine
- Christmas Markets Food Tour: Christmas soup, market specialities and mulled wine, from late November to early January
Before you go
Come hungry and skip a big meal beforehand. Brunch and pastry tours start at 10:00, the communist-era and vegan tours at 12:00, the traditional tour at 13:00 or 17:00, and the Christmas tour at 17:00.
The Vegan Food Tour is the one designed for plant-based diets.
What to expect
Tastings in the Dark (Tmavá degustácia) pours Slovak wines in complete darkness, in a historic cellar in the Old Town. With sight switched off, you notice aromas and flavours you would easily miss at a regular tasting.
Each evening has its own theme. An unusual night out for couples and friends, and groups of ten or more can book a private tasting.
Experience highlights
- a tasting of Slovak wines in total darkness
- a historic cellar in the courtyard of the Palace Apartments hotel on Michalská Street
- changing themes, such as a Pinot showdown or new Slovak grape varieties
- guessing aromas and flavours by smell and taste alone
Before you go
Tastings take place at Michalská 3, in the cellar in the courtyard of the Palace Apartments hotel, on set dates, usually starting at 18:30. Tickets are sold online.
Most public tastings are in Slovak and English only on selected dates, so check the calendar early if you need English.