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In 1991 the factory of the automaker Volkswagen was founded in Bratislava (until 1994 as a joint venture with the Bratislavské automobilové závody); the fourth bridge over the Danube, Most Lafranconi, was built.
The Bratislava City Gallery, founded in 1961, is the second-largest Slovak gallery of its kind. The gallery offers permanent displays at Pálffy Palace (Pálffyho palác) and Mirbach Palace (Mirbachov palác), in the Old Town. [173]
1991 - Bratislava Stock Exchange founded. 1992 - Museum of Jewish Culture established. [6] 1993 City becomes capital of Slovak Republic. Slovak Television begins broadcasting. 1994 - Bratislava Forest Park [12] and Museum of Carpathian German Culture established. [6] 1995 - Evangelical Church opens. 1998 Jozef Moravčík becomes mayor.
The Slovak National Gallery founded in 1948, is the biggest network of galleries in Slovakia. Two displays in Bratislava are situated in Esterházy Palace (Esterházyho palác) and the Water Barracks (Vodné kasárne), adjacent one to another. They are located on the Danube riverfront in the Old Town. [214] [215]
The hilly area ends in the south at the Danube with the Chatam Sofer Memorial and the Bratislava Castle hill, and in the west at the D2 Motorway. This part of Bratislava is more quiet than the other parts of the city's Old Town and, apart from the castle, it is seldom visited by tourists. The eastern section is the historical and administrative ...
Large Slavo-Avaric cemeteries can be found in Devínska Nová Ves and Záhorská Bystrica near Bratislava and similar cemeteries, the proof of direct Avar power, south of the line Devín-Nitra-Levice-Želovce-Košice-Šebastovce. [60] North of this line, the Slavs preserved previous burial rite (cremation, sometimes tumuli).
St Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava This page was last edited on 14 July 2024, at 03:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The Royal Hungarian Elizabeth University in Pozsony (Bratislava) was founded in 1912, which can be considered the legal predecessor of the University of Pécs. At the end of the First World War, as a result of the Treaty of Trianon, Bratislava became part of Czechoslovakia.