Sunday, February 27, 2011

Pressburg then and now

Pressburg is still the German name for Bratislava, since 1993 the largest city and capital of the independent Slovakia with a population of about 431,000.  Like the much larger Budapest and Vienna it lies on the Danube River.  The Austrian border is only a few km distant and Vienna is not far away - only about 70 km.  Passengers who fly to and from the city often use the Vienna airport as the local airport is small.

The removals from the scene from about 1900 are buildings bombed during WW2 and replaced or just not replaced, while the main addition is the Novy Most or new bridge from 1972 which has a UFO restaurant on its southern towers (to the left and out of sight in the Martin Tasky photo showing an icy Danube).

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