Venues
Bond reality
Martin Hájek
Remove of being unsuccessful in getting the premises of the former Grössling Spa managed to get its former boiler room. The Bond Reality company has a pleasant basement bar on it’s site. During the building works on these premises, one of the workers fell into a lower area, which had not been documented in any blueprints…
Botel Gracia
Zuzana Krónerová
The botel was opened in 1991 as the first of the three originally planned botels. The idea of the investor was to make the Danube and Bratislava prettier by the Three Graces, from which only one has survived the change of the regime. Let us descend into the lower decks of the ship, allegedly haunted by a ghost of an evil fisherman…
Café Merian
Štefan Bučko
A pleasant café in the centre of Bratislava with cool atmosphere, live music and great customers. Carefully chosen music, a large library with constant flow of new books – from the good classical literature to the newest translations and magazines. Internet access, chess and other desk games are inseparable part of the place …
Café Shtoor
Lujza Schrameková
The network of cafes, which are proud of their home-made dishes, are aiming to show them in a completely new way. They have even started using their own language within café walls, one that is based on the Štúr's conception (Štúr was the leader of the Slovakian National Revival and author of the Slovakian language standard). However, the extraction from the Bulgarian translation will be read in the formal contemporary Slovakian.
Tearoom, My a mama
Juraj Hrčka
The Grossmann Palace was built in 1904 according to the design of Joszef Schiller. It‘s first owner , Mrs Grossmann Josza, truly enjoyed the wooden brackets and vernacular ornaments on the façade created in the Hungarian Art Nouveau style. The building was damaged during the air raid of the Apollo refinery and has since undergone several reconstructions.
SVU Gallery
Richard Stanke
The Gallery of the Slovakian Art Union is located in a historical building called Umělecká Beseda, listed in the national heritage list. The former building (1924-1926) became the landmark in the development of the Slovakian architecture on its road to functionalism. The atmosphere of the main and largest exhibition room is created by the daylight breaking through the glass roof…
Hotel Carlton – garages
Ela Lehotská
The rich history of the hotel goes as far as the times of Maria Theresa, when an inn called K trom zeleným stromom stood on the site of the current hotel. Following a great reconstruction carried on in the mid-1920s, it became the largest hotel in Central Europe. Over the times, it had fallen into disrepair until its new opening under the name Carlton Radisson SAS Hotel in 2001.
Department of English Studies, University Komenského
Ján Greššo
The history of Philosophical Faculty started in the mid-war period in 1919. The building, used now by the faculty, once served the Ministry of Interior before the World War 2. And where else than at the Department of English Studies should listeners best appreciate the quality of the translation of this British best-selling fantasy writer and leading British atheist.
Minigallery – Toll House
Viktor Horján
Bratislava was an important industrial centre of Hungary towards the end of the 19th century, but it was lacking its connection with the right bank of the Danube river. In 1889, the Land Assembly decided to build the first permanent bridge over the Danube including two toll houses on both sides. The toll house on the Bratislava’s side of the river now shows off a mini museum on the top floor and a mini gallery on the ground floor…
Ministry of Environment
Ivana Kuxová
Enea Gracioso Lanfranconi comes from Italy, however his family settled down for good in Bratislava. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Historical Society and a renowned art collector. He kept his art collection in his palace (the present-day Ministry of Environment) donating a large part of the collection to the city of Bratislava.
Reduta – Bjornsonovo nádvorie
Magda Vášáryová
The former Terezian granary built on the order by Maria Theresa in 1773 was rebuilt into the Neo-Baroque style at the beginning of the of the last century. It was one of the first buildings in Bratislava with a reinforced concrete construction. It has been the seat of the Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra since the 1950s.
Joiner’s Shop, Slovakian National Gallery
Marek Majeský a Lucia Hurajová
The administrative building of the Slovakian National Gallery was built in the 1970s and has been awaiting a reconstruction for 11 years. There is a joiner’s shop, which prepares stands for artworks, makes picture frames and carries out other necessary works for the gallery.
Zahorian Gallery
Emília Vášáryová
The Gallery is part of a hotel, built in 1903 in the Art Nouveau style on the former Barošova street. It experienced the worst period towards the end of the World War II when the building was badly damaged during the liberation fights in the streets of Bratislava. It was renowned for the legendary Tulipan Espresso Bar, the meeting point of the Bratislava intellectual society in the second half of the 20th century.
Boardroom, Municipality Office
Kristina Farkašová
The Jurenák Palace served as a branch of the Prague Živnobanka bank between the WW1 and WW2. It is now the seat of the self-government and the municipal office of Stare Mesto quarter, Bratislava. There is a boardroom on the ground floor with original wooden paneling…
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