Thematic guided tours

We apologize, there are only  TOURS IN SLOVAK LANGUAGE this year. We selected some venues for you to visit and enjoy:

Reading Room at the Red Crab

Today belongs to the City Library of Bratislava is located in the former defensive moat of the city of Bratislava, which was created around the middle of the 14th century as an important element of the city’s passive defense system. To this day, the remains of the defensive walls can be seen from the reading room. On Saturda from 3 p.m. you can join a florist workshop.

The monastery garden of the Franciscans

It is one of the oldest gardens in Bratislava. The history of the Franciscans in Bratislava dates back to the middle of the 13th century. He liked to build a large complex in Bratislava with a monastery and an early Gothic church, consecrated in 1291 in the presence of the Hungarian king Ondrej III. On the vast area of the garden, the Franciscans grew not only vegetables and fruits, but also medicinal herbs, necessary for treating the sick in the monastery hospital.

Liszt´s Garden

It is located near the late Baroque palace of Prince Leopold de Pauli, administrator of the royal estates. This palace was built in 1775-76 on the site of an older royal house. It is the only palace apart from the provost’s palace on Kapitulská street, which had a regular courtyard and an adjacent larger garden in the 18th century. At that time, they built a baroque ground-floor building in the garden, the so-called A music pavilion where concerts and garden parties were held.

Pálffy Palace

It is a national cultural monument from the mid-17th century. It will enchant you with its unmistakable atmosphere, fantastic acoustics and historical spaces, which are the remains of part of the palace of the Pálffy family. The Pálffy Palace complex was built by Paul IV. Pálffy in the years 1646 to 1653 in the space between today’s Zámocká, Svoradová and Škarniclova streets. He decided to do so during the reconstruction of the castle palace in Prešpork, which he led and partially financed. The palace had three walled courtyards, one open economic courtyard and an exceptional garden wing with a staircase pavilion.

Garden of the Albrecht House

The Albrecht House is an emerging cultural center in the heart of historic Bratislava. The garden was established in August 2019 as part of the exterior of the center. We try to combine practical and decorative functions in it. It serves as an auditorium for public art events, so it is a combination of audience seating and flower beds with decorative flowers and trees.

Prüger-Wallner´s Garden

The villa garden of the hotelier Heinrich Prüger’s family, which had both an ornamental and a useful part. In the southern part there were four greenhouses and a house with a boiler room for their heating, which can still be found here today and serves as a self-service kitchen. The Prűger family ran a private horticulture business called Flóra. After World War II, the owners moved to England. Today, the garden is owned by the City of Bratislava, and it also includes the community garden Prügerka, which is managed by the National Trust n.o.

Open-air gallery Záhrada (Garden)

The independent gallery Ateliér.EM operates in the premises of the house where the sculptor Katarína Kissoczy has lived and worked for more than ten years. Since 2009, it has been organizing an annual International Symposium of Art under the name SEM, dedicated to Erna Masarovičová (1926 – 2008), an important Slovak sculptor and founder of modern Slovak jewelry and medal-making. The sculptures created during individual years of the symposium are today exhibited in the open air gallery ZáHRADA at Langsfeldová 2. Visitors can see site-specific sculptural works by local and foreign authors from the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Mexico, Estonia and other countries.

Hausnatura

The first urban vertical hydroponic farm in Bratislava – Petržalka. Growing vertical system is the agricultural process in which crops are grown on top of each other, rather than in traditional, horizontal rows. Growing vertically allows for conservation in space, resulting in a higher crop yield per square foot of land used.

Outside of Bratislava

Schaubmar´s Mill – Slovak National Gallery

On the northern edge of Pezinok at the foot of the Small Carpathians in the Cajla district, the Baroque stone building of Schaubmar’s mill is part of a closed mill estate surrounded by a wall. It currently serves as a gallery of contemporary art exhibitions of the Slovak National Gallery. A beautiful orchard is part of the mill complex. You can relax in it during the opening hours of the mill.