2 hours, all year round		Concise tour of Old Town’s Highlights

At MS AGENCY we aspire to highest quality of service and customer satisfaction. Therefore, our guided tour is conducted by a professional licensed tour guide who meets high criteria in terms of personality, language skills and presentation.

Bratislava

Lying on the banks of the Danube River just 60km downstream from Vienna, Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony until 1919) with a population of almost 500.000 is the rapidly developing capital of Slovakia. Despite many common traditions with its bigger neighbour, Bratislava has a distinctly different, vibrant and youthful ambiance.



The city prospered from its location on crossroads on major trade routes. It gained further importance when present day Budapest was taken by the Ottomans and all central Hungarian offices were moved here in the course of the 16th century. Bratislava’s charming Old Town with its cosy squares, narrow alleys and romantic courtyards as well as the mighty Castle bear testimony to the city‘s rich past when it was the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom and coronation town of the Hungarian Kings.

Thanks to its unique location in a corner between three nations – Slovakia, Austria and Hungary, Bratislava has been traditionally multilingual and cosmopolitan. It possesses old world charm and shares the common Habsburg heritage of great architecture, rich musical traditions and tasty food, where Slovak, Hungarian and Austrian influences overlap. Located between such important cultural centres as Vienna, Prague and Budapest, it is this microcosm of central Europe that makes Bratislava so captivating and inspiring for so many.

It may be little by comparison in size, but it is big in rich culture, business opportunities and youthful spirit. Hence the description Little Big City, which became Bratislava’s official slogan.

Old Town Walking Tour

Our Walking Tour of Bratislava’s Old Town takes in all the must-sees of this historic city. Your Guided Tour starts at the elegant Opera House surrounded by the equally impressive building of the Slovak Philharmonic Hall and the famous Carlton Hotel. Our Guide takes you to the charming Main Square dominated by the medieval Old Town Hall and Bratislava’s oldest fountain. From the Main Square our guide takes you pass the Old Town Hall to another quiant square with Bratislava largest palace – Primate’s Palace, formerly winter residence of Hungarian archbishops.



The Tour continues through narrow winding alleys to Michalska ulica with the town’s only preserved town gate - St Michael’s Gate - towering at the street’s top end and burgher houses with romantic courtyards. The following Venturska ulica and surrounding streets are the musicians’ quarter where numerous famous music composers studied, lived or gave concerts, among whom Bartok, Liszt, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were the most famous. Afterwards, our Guide will show you one of Bratislava’s landmarks and its largest church – the St. Martin’s Cathedral, formerly coronation church of Hungarian kings. The tour finishes back at the Opera House.

Note: Bratislava’s Old Town is all pedestrian zone, therefore our guided Walking Tour is conducted on foot.

Note: According to your needs, we can also suggest a tailor-made guided tour, which will last exactly the amount time you have.
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