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Day 6, One day walk in Bratislava:This day in Bratislava we have planned to be only walking in the old town and buy tickets for train or a boat to Budapest tomorrow. Google Map over Bratislava: |
Bratislava:We arrived late yesterday and didn't get any time to see the town. Today the whole day is free to investigate this town. 
Breakfast was included and after we finished that we are ready for a walk in the city, the clock is 11 am. 
We are living at the street Heydukowa, in front of us the Polish Institute. Around the corner we have a garage for the ambulances, heavy traffic from it. 
When we come into the old town, which is only a couple of hundred meters away, we start to see all the beautiful details. 
The lower building with the green roof is the Teologiska Fakultet, the building behind with the tower is the museum of Bratislava. 
Fontana sv. Juraja, but looks like Saint George and the dragon. We have one too in Sweden but we call it St. Göran and the dragon. At Wikipedia you find more information about Saint George:
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In the old town you find beautiful parks ant statues. At Wikipedia you find more information about Bratislava:
This is the Primate's palace, this palace was built 1778 for Archbishop Jozsef Batthyany. It was on the yard inside this palace we found the fountain. At Wikipedia you find more information about the Primate's Palace:
The balcony above the gate of the palace. 
We walk the street Ursulinska, see this church tower above the roofs, it's Church of the Annunciation. At Wikipedia you find more information about the Franciscan Church:
A gentleman in the door of hotel Arcadia let us in to see the beautiful hotel from inside, it looked fantastic, but we already have our room. 
At a small square we find the hotel Vinaren and the galleria Nova and the tower at next photo. |
Close to the square we have Michaels Gate. At Wikipedia you find more information about Michaels Gate:
It's hot even today, take a break and get something to drink, we found this place on the backside of the gate. 
After the drinking pause we enter Michael's Gate to see what's inside, it's a museum but it was closed. 
We see a lot of work going on in the old town on the buildings. 
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They have cars with old style that transports the tourists around in the town. 
From the square at the street Panska and Busta Bernolaka we get a view of the Bratislava Castle and museum. 
St. Martin's Cathedral, also this building is during restauration. 
The impressive tower in copper. Here at Wikipedia are more information about the St Martins Cathedral:
The last square before the harbor, the Holy Trinity Column. I learned that it's a religious monument depicting Virgin Maria and there are many of them around the world. Here at Wikipedia are more information about Holy Trinity columns:
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After we have investigate how to take us to Budapest by train we found it too difficult. Our idea now was to go to the right and follow the harbor, but too heavy traffic. We go back to old town again, in old town we walk along the alleys to the ferries and river boats. 
After we had decided to take a boat to Budapest we looked over the alternatives. The boats goes along the river Danube and that river can be really exiting to travel on. The river boats looks like this. Danube is Europe's second longest river. At Wikipedia you find more information about the river Danube:
In the harbor we start to look after a boat that could take us to Budapest. 
There are several boats that go to the popular Vienna town, it's not far away, but we should travel in the opposite direction. There were no river boats for that short distance, more like week tours. We got the recommendations to look for the Russian speed boats. 
Here is the Russia built speed boat we looking for. It's a skid or hydrofoil boat with speeds up to 35 knots, really fast to be a passenger boat. This model is the Meteor type. We bought two tickets for tomorrow, it costs 75 Euro each and the transport will take 4 hours. Here are more information about Hydrofoil boats:
In background we see the old bridge Stary Most. Here at Wikipedia are more information about the bridge Stary most:
Now we go back to the UFO bridge and to the other side of the big road to get a glimpse of Bratislava Castle. Bratislava Castle and Sigismund's gate, it was too far away for us, too hot and too little time left for a visit. Here at Wikipedia are more information about Bratislava Castle:
In Sweden we had a couple of hundred years ago a king with the name Sigismund, his mother was from Poland. Has he something to do with this gate ? Here at Wikipedia are more information about the Swedish king Sigismund:
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The bridge Most SNP, Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising, but most people call it the UFO bridge. We never got time to visit the restaurant at the top. At Wikipedia you find more information about the bridge Most SNP:
These riverboats look very attractive, it would be fun to do a week cruise on some river in the future. 
This is the old Slovak National Theatre, there is also a new with the same name. Today they perform the act Puritani. At Wikipedia you find more information about the Slovak National Theatre:
We walk more to the North and came to a new square, the main square. Here we find the Museum of Bratislava, but hey, I remember we have seen it before. Yes this was one of the first buildings we saw when we started this walking in the morning, but we came from behind. At Wikipedia you find more information about the Bratislava City Museum:
At this square the Maximiliano Fotana is placed, it's Bratislava's most famous fountain. There is also this tourist market with a lot of fun things to look at. At Wikipedia you find more information about the Maximiliano Fontana or Roland Fountain:
The city museum has a bit funny decorated windows. |
Now we have left old town and walking back to our stay. 
This is the house we have rented the room in, our stay.
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