The view
City, castle, Danube and Austria.
Diego Delso — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Radler59 (talk) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Radler59 (talk) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Random photos 1989 — CC0
For the widest free view in the city, yes, and the walk through the quiet quarter is lovely; for conventional sights, the castle and old town come first.
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A military cemetery on the city's highest hill: the Slavín memorial (1960) commemorates the 6,800 Soviet soldiers who fell liberating Bratislava from Nazi rule in April 1945 — a forty-two-metre obelisk topped by a soldier holding a flag and crushing a swastika, ringed by six mass graves and a memorial hall. For many visitors the site matters more than the monument: the hill is Bratislava's highest point at two hundred and forty metres, and the view takes in the city, the castle, the Danube and Austria — wider than the castle's own, and free. Around it lies the elegant Slavín quarter of embassy villas and trees, reached by a twenty-minute walk uphill from the centre through quiet residential streets, or by bus. It is a protected national monument: respectful behaviour is required.
City, castle, Danube and Austria.
Embassy villas and treed streets around it.
Slavín, Bratislava