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Bratislava Castle
The square white castle with four corner towers on its hill above the Danube, with views to Austria and Hungary.
- Open
- The grounds every day; the exhibitions close on Mondays
- Price
- Free to the grounds; paid for the exhibitions
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Bratislavský hrad, 811 06 BratislavaDirections
- Getting There
- A steep 10-minute walk up from St. Martin's Cathedral.
Why Go
The castle took its four-towered shape in the 15th to 17th centuries, burned in 1811 and stood in ruins until it was rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s. It holds exhibitions of the Slovak National Museum, including the treasury.
Its baroque garden has been replanted, and the terraces look over the Danube to the endless blocks of Petržalka and, on clear days, Austria and Hungary.
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