Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Bratislava, Slovakia

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 5.7 km
Ascend 85 m
Descend 110 m

Experience Bratislava in Slovakia in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BratislavaIndividual Sights in Bratislava

Sight 1: Museum of Jewish Culture in Slovakia

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Museum of Jewish Culture in Slovakia

The Museum of Jewish Culture is a museum in Bratislava, Slovakia, which focuses on the history of the Jews in Slovakia. Opened in 1993, it is a component of the Slovak National Museum, and its director is Pavol Mešťan.

Wikipedia: Museum of Jewish Culture (EN), Website, Facebook

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: St. Nicholas church

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St. Nicholas church

St. Nicholas Church in Bratislava is an Orthodox church situated on the castle hill next to the Bratislava Castle in Podhradie the historical part of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The church was built in 1661 by Paul Pálffy's (1589–1655) widow Countess Frances, née Khuen. It is an early baroque building built on the place of original Gothic church below the Bratislava Castle. The church is consecrated to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors. His statue is situated in the stone niche above the main entrance to the church. The church is a protected cultural monument.

Wikipedia: St. Nicholas Church, Bratislava (EN)

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: House at the Good Shepherd

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The House of the Good Shepherd is a narrow, Rococo-style building in Bratislava, Slovakia, located in the Old Town below Bratislava Castle. It was built in 1760–1765 by notable Bratislava master-mason Matej (Matthäus) Hollrigl. The townhouse was constructed for a local merchant and the lower part of the building was used for commercial purposes, the upper part for living. It is one of the few buildings in the area below Bratislava Castle to retain their original state, mostly due to the demolition of much of the Jewish quarter in the 20th century.

Wikipedia: House of the Good Shepherd (EN)

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Sight 4: Museum of Clocks

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Bratislava Clock Museum – a museum documenting the history of clocks, watches and watchmaking in Bratislava from the late 17th century to the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Zegarów w Bratysławie (PL), Website

44 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Bratislavské kultúrne a informačné stredisko

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The Bratislava Cultural and Information Centre (BKIS) is a contributory organization of the Capital City of the Slovak Republic Bratislava, which is located at Židovská Street No. 1. It was created by merging three municipal contributory organizations: the Municipal Cultural Centre, the Bratislava Information Service and the Park of Culture and Leisure.

Wikipedia: Bratislavské kultúrne a informačné stredisko (SK), Website

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Maldeghemov palác

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Maldeghem's Palace is a palace in Bratislava's Old Town at 12 Hviezdoslavovo Square, next to the Nester Palace.

Wikipedia: Maldeghemov palác (SK)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Keglevičov palác

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Keglevičov palác

Keglevich Palace is a Baroque mansion on Panska Street 27 in Bratislava, Slovakia. It is included among the National Monuments Reservation of the city and is also listed as a Cultural Real-estate Monument. The last reconstruction was in 1998, involving the roof and facade rendering. Following the reconstruction a new street was named Strakova Street. It is between Venturian Street and Hviezdoslavovo námestie (Bratislava).

Wikipedia: Keglevich Palace (EN)

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Balašov palác

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Balašov palác

Balaš Palace is a palace in Bratislava at Panská No. 15.

Wikipedia: Balašov palác (SK)

44 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Kaplnka Kristovho tela

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The Chapel of Corpus Christi is a small Baroque sacral building located on Panská Street No. 11 in the historical center of Bratislava in the district of Bratislava I.

Wikipedia: Kaplnka Kristovho Tela (Bratislava) (SK)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Jesenákov palác

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Jesenákov palác

The Jesenák Palace is a three-winged Baroque palace in Bratislava, built for Baron Ján Jesenák on the foundations of an older medieval house. On the corner there is a stone cartouche with the coat of arms of the original owner. The house had supporting pillars facing the square, which were removed at the end of the 19th century. In the pillars, they found secondarily used Romanesque capitals.

Wikipedia: Jesenákov palác (Hlavné námestie) (SK)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Apponyiho palác

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Apponyiho palác

Apponyi Palace is a prominent monument in Bratislava, Slovakia, adjacent to the Old Town Hall. Its address is Radničná 577/1.

Wikipedia: Apponyi Palace (EN), Website

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Bratislava City Museum

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The Bratislava City Museum is a museum in Bratislava, Slovakia, established in 1868. Its headquarters are located in the Old Town, near the Main Square at the Old Town Hall. The museum is owned by one of the 11 allowance organizations of the City of Bratislava.

Wikipedia: Bratislava City Museum (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Kostol Najsvätejšieho Spasiteľa

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The Holy Saviour Church also called the Jesuit Church, is an originally protestant church from the 17th century on the Franciscan Square in the Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia. Today, the church belongs to the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuit Order.

Wikipedia: Jesuit Church, Bratislava (EN)

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Lisztova záhrada

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Liszt's Garden is a garden in the Old Town of Bratislava behind the houses on Kapitulská, Ventúrská, Prepoštská and Farská streets near the University Library.

Wikipedia: Lisztova záhrada (SK)

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Kaplnka sv. Kataríny

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The Chapel of St. Catherine from 1311, is located in the city district of Bratislava-Old Town, on Michalská Street. It is situated in the development of other houses. The Chapel of St. Catherine is the oldest Gothic chapel in Bratislava. Its construction began in 1311 by the Cistercian monk Francis of Columba. It was completed in 1325, when it was consecrated by Andrew, bishop of the Capital Belgrade.

Wikipedia: Kaplnka svätej Kataríny (Bratislava) (SK), Url

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Sight 16: Divadlo LA KOMIKA

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The La Komika Theatre was established in 2015 as an independent theatre scene. It is based in Bratislava's Old Town on Michalská Street and as such is dedicated exclusively to the original creation of productions by its founder Karol Vosátek. Its auditorium has a capacity of almost 100 seats. The original plans counted on 15 to 22 performances per month and the expansion of the comedy genre to include cabaret. [citation needed]

Wikipedia: La Komika (SK)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Divadlo Arteatro

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Arteatro was a theater, based in the historic center of Bratislava in the premises of the Čierny Havran Club near Franciscan Square. The theater was founded by director Tomáš Roháč and dramaturgist Saša Sarvašová in 2008. After the departure of Sarvašová for the post of dramaturgist theater Arena in 2015 led the theater director Roháč with actor Emil Leeger, until the theater in 2020 as a result of the Pandemia Covid-9.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Arteatro (SK)

39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 18: GUnaGU

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GUnaGU is an alternative authorial theatre in Bratislava, founded in 1985.

Wikipedia: GUnaGU (SK), Website

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: City Gallery of Bratislava

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The Bratislava City Gallery is a gallery located in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Old Town. It is the second largest Slovak gallery of its kind. The gallery is housed at the Mirbach Palace and Pálffy Palace.

Wikipedia: Bratislava City Gallery (EN), Website

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Kostol Zvestovania Pána

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The Franciscan Church is the oldest existing religious (sacral) building in the Old Town of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The church was consecrated in the year 1297 in the presence of King Andrew III of Hungary. In the past, the church building served for larger gatherings of townspeople or Hungarian nobles. In 1526 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor was elected here to become the King of Hungary. During coronations, kings used to knight nobles as Knights of the Order of the Golden Spur in this church.

Wikipedia: Franciscan Church, Bratislava (EN)

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Františkánska záhrada

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The Franciscan Garden is a rectangular-shaped garden that is part of the Franciscan Church and Monastery in the Old Town of Bratislava.

Wikipedia: Františkánska záhrada (Bratislava) (SK)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Galéria Nedbalka

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Nedbalka Gallery is a non-profit organization founded in 2012. The gallery is located in a reconstructed historical building on Nedbalova Street in Bratislava. In accordance with the subtitle of the gallery – Slovak Modern Art, its representatives have set themselves the goal of gradually collecting, systematically processing and presenting works of art of the 20th century with an overlap to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century, which were created in Slovakia. The focus of the collection lies in painting, but sculpture and graphics are also represented in it.

Wikipedia: Galéria Nedbalka (SK), Website

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Laurinská brána

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Laurinc Gate was a medieval town gate in the historical Old Town of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It was built in the 14th century and demolished by the order of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the 18th century together with most of the city walls, because the inner walls were limiting the town's growth. It was named after Saint Lawrence.

Wikipedia: Laurinc Gate (EN)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 24: Divadlo P. O. Hviezdoslava

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The Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav Theatre (DPOH) is an independent non-profit organization in Bratislava. While it was one of the three headquarters of the Drama Department of the Slovak National Theatre until March 2007, from 17 October 2009 to June 2022 it was the artistic stage of BKIS, then known as the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav City Theatre (MDPOH). After its restructuring, it has been operating independently since June 2022 and under its historical abbreviation.

Wikipedia: Divadlo Pavla Országha Hviezdoslava (SK), Website

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Ganymedova fontána

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Ganymedova fontána

The Ganymede Fountain is a neo-baroque fountain located on Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava.

Wikipedia: Ganymedova fontána (SK)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Kostol Nanebovzatia Panny Márie

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The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, also called the Church of the Canonists of Notre Dame in Bratislava, is part of the complex of the Notre Dame Canonry School in Bratislava in the Old Town district, near the historic building of the Slovak National Theater.

Wikipedia: Kostol Nanebovzatia Panny Márie (Notre Dame) (SK)

574 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 27: Kačacia fontána

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The Duck Fountain is a national cultural monument located on Šafárik Square in Bratislava. The fountain, together with its individual parts, is registered in the Central List of Monuments. The buildings were declared a national cultural monument on October 23, 1963. According to some sources, it is the most popular fountain in Bratislava.

Wikipedia: Kačacia fontána (SK)

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 28: Church of St. Elisabeth

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The Church of St. Elizabeth, commonly known as Blue Church, is a Hungarian-Secessionist Catholic church located in the eastern part of the Old Town in Bratislava, present-day Slovakia. It is consecrated to Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II, who grew up in the Pressburg Castle (Pozsonyi vár). It is referred to as "The Little Blue Church" because of the colour of its façade, mosaics, majolicas and blue-glazed roof. It was initially part of the neighboring gymnázium and served as the school chapel.

Wikipedia: Blue Church (EN), Website

849 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 29: Chrám Povýšenia vznešeného a životodarného Kríža

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Chrám Povýšenia vznešeného a životodarného Kríža

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a cathedral in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was built in the year 1860 at the edge of St. Andrew's cemetery. Since 1972, the church belongs to Slovak Greek Catholic Church. It is the cathedral church of the Eparchy of Bratislava since 2008.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Bratislava (EN)

932 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 30: Pradiareň 1900

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Cvernovka is the popular name of a factory for thread and thread products in the Bratislava district of Ružinov. The official names of the factory were: Bratislava Cvern Factory, International Women's Day Plant, SOE, BCT – Bratislava Cvern Factory, Joint Stock Company.

Wikipedia: Cvernovka (Bratislava) (SK)

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