Bratislava is a city that breathes history at every turn – from coronation traditions to modern monuments. A new site has been added to its list of landmarks, commemorating the moment we were all born into freedom. On the reconstructed Freedom Square (Námestie slobody), the very first November 1989 Memorial has been erected.

The Slovak Radio building is one of Bratislava‘s dominant architectural features.

Sit on a bench next to a statue of a Napoleonic soldier, which is there to commemorate the siege of the city

For luck, stroke the button on Chumil’s cap. This bronze handyman peeking out of a canal in the middle of the street is probably the most photographed sculpture of all.

Did you know that the statue of the smiling gentleman greeting people entering the Main Square with a cylinder in his hand was a real person?

The last owner, Count Emil Mirbach, bequeathed the palace to the city with the wish to establish the Bratislava City Gallery in its premises. Mirbach Palace is one of the best-preserved buildings in the original architecture of old Prešpork. It is a rococo jewel built on the site of an old building, which is mentioned as early as 1459

Just a few minutes from the city center of Bratislava, in Rusovce, you’ll find a place where history truly comes to life. Ancient Gerulata was already built at the end of the 1st century as a Roman military camp – a fortified castellum on the borders of the Roman Empire.

Today, this unique archaeological site is part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage site “Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Danube Limes”, inscribed in 2021.

Bunker B-S 8 Hřbitov (The Cemetery) dates from the 1930s, it was built as a part of the Czechoslovak defense system, specifically the Bratislava defense line.

Bunker B-S 6 Vrba is one of the preserved buildings of the Bratislava section of the Czechoslovak fortifications, in the premises of which there is now a museum.