The traveling team from 3Dwalkthroughs.com left Vienna early this morning heading to Budapest. On our way we made a stop in Bratislava. The city is interesting as the architecture is extremely old. Apparently the less bombing an area experienced during the war, the more likely the original architecture was still intact. This seemed to be the case in Bratislava.The above picture shows a sidestreet off one of the main tourist areas in Bratislava. The area is filled with quaint tourist shops, cafes and pubs. Below is a short history of Bratislava taken from Slovkia.org.
About Bratislava
Not only is Bratislava the largest city in Slovakia, it also serves as the state capital. Furthermore, Bratislava is the seat of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Government of the Slovak Republic, national ministries and the other central bodies of the state administration of the Slovak Republic. It is situated in the centre of Europe in the southwestern part of Slovakia.
It borders with Hungary in the south and with Austria in the west. The town spreads like a fan on both banks of the Danube River, and at the foot of the Low Carpatians. Due to its position on the border between the mild and warm climatic zones, it ranks among the warmest spots in Slovakia with an average temperature of 9.9 C. It has 1 976.4 hours of sunshine a year and annual total rainfall is 527.4 mm. Bratislava is the most populous city in the Slovak Republic and its population is some 450,000.
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