The arcaded courtyard
The old town's finest inner court.
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Čumil, the man emerging from a manhole, Schöne Náci raising his hat, and Napoleon's soldier — three bronzes in the old town that have become a visitors' hunt.
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Slovakia's oldest town hall: a group of houses fused over the centuries into one building on the Main Square, the earliest from the fourteenth century — with a tower under a coloured tiled roof and a beautiful arcaded courtyard, today holding the Bratislava City Museum. Look on its outer wall for Napoleon's cannonball lodged in the masonry, and for the statue of a French soldier leaning on a bench in the square — both from the 1809 siege, and among the city's most charming details. The museum tells Bratislava's history from the Romans to the twentieth century, with a torture chamber in the cellar and the council hall, and the tower climbs for a view over the square. The square before it is the city's heart: the Roland fountain of 1572, the historic Roland café, the Japanese embassy, and the Christmas market in December — among central Europe's loveliest, and its smallest and warmest in feel.
The old town's finest inner court.
A bronze leaning on a bench in the square.
Hlavné námestie 1, Bratislava