What looks like a flying saucer perched above the Danube River is actually one of Slovakia’s most iconic structures — but its origins are steeped in controversy. Built during the Cold War, ...

Vienna to Bratislava by Boat Due to its location on the Danube river, Bratislava has a regular boat connection with Vienna. The centre of Vienna (Schwedenplatz) and Bratislava are connected by a fast ...

Slovakia's first Holocaust Museum opened in 2016, in the southwestern city of Sereď. Study of the Holocaust is part of the national curriculum -- mandatory from the ninth grade onwards in state ...

After the pandemic, the revival of culture and hospitality in the Slovak capital will be harder than previously expected. But that has not stopped Bratislava from looking to the future.

Although five bridges over the Danube dominate the Bratislava skyline, the Slovak capital had only one bridge running across the river a half century ago. Aerial views from 1969, published by the city ...

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The Hotel Kyjev has dominated Bratislava’s skyline in stark, tombstonelike fashion since 1973, a Brutalist holdover from the communist era. But the building, long closed ...

Bratislava once had a fashion map, created three years ago by the Slovak Fashion Council on the occasion of the fashion festival Slovak Fashion Week. “The map from 2014 was kind of so-so, since there ...

Bratislava boasts two opera houses under the name of the Slovak National Theatre: the Historic SND (26) (00 421 2 2047 2111; snd.sk) on Hviezdoslavovo námestie, and the New SND (27) (00 421 2 ...

Slovakia's High Tatras mountain range sits quietly in the shadow of the Alps yet within a compact 40-by-15-mile range stand two dozen peaks between 7,000 and 8,700 feet.

Bratislava, Slovakia: A velvety visit to old city with new touches By Alice Short, Los Angeles Times March 24, 2014 8 PM PT ...