Bratislava kept changing names — Gerulata, Pressburg, Pozsony — and each layer left something standing. Three days trace Roman frontier stones, Gothic convents, the 1805 peace treaty room, and the quarter erased for a bridge.
Great Moravian fortress above the Morava–Danube confluence, first recorded in 864. Foundations of a 9th-century church, Roman-era walls and the Maiden Tower on its cliff. Open April–October 10:00–18:00.
The only surviving gate of the medieval city walls, built around 1300 and given its 51 m Baroque tower in 1758. Six floors of crossbows, halberds and city-guard armour lead up to the rampart gallery.
Consecrated in 1297 with King Andrew III present, this is the oldest surviving religious building in the Old Town. Behind it stands the two-storey Gothic Chapel of St John the Evangelist, built in the 1360s.
A 14th-century convent church built deliberately without a bell tower, since the Clarissine rule forbade one. The nuns worked around it with a pentagonal Gothic spire grafted onto the side wall instead.
A 39.5 m obelisk over the graves of 6,845 Red Army soldiers killed taking Bratislava in April 1945. Six mass graves, bronze relief panels of the fighting, and the widest panorama over the Danube plain.
Neoclassical palace of 1781 where Napoleon's envoy and Emperor Francis I signed the Peace of Pressburg on 26 December 1805, in the Hall of Mirrors. Six 17th-century English tapestries were found walled up in 1903.
Slovakia's only Jewish museum, inside the Zsigray Mansion — the last house standing from the quarter bulldozed for the bridge. Torah scrolls, Pressburg Yeshiva records and a room on the 1942 deportations.
Black granite memorial standing on the footprint of the Neolog synagogue demolished in 1969 to clear the SNP Bridge approach road. A bronze relief shows the lost building above the Hebrew word for Remember.
Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube limes, garrisoned from the 1st to the 4th century AD and UNESCO-listed in 2021. Excavated wall footings, legionary tombstones and a carved stone lion sit under a shelter.
English neo-Gothic manor rebuilt in the 1840s for Count Emanuel Zichy-Ferraris, later a summer residence linked to Hungarian royalty. The house is under long restoration; the landscape park and lake stay open.
Rococo townhouse of the 1760s, barely 5.6 m wide at its base and one of the few buildings spared when the quarter below the castle was cleared. Four floors of Slovak-made clocks from the 17th to 19th century.
Finished in 1913 to Ödön Lechner's design in Hungarian Secession style: blue-glazed Zsolnay ceramic tiles, a cylindrical 36 m tower and a mosaic of Elizabeth of Hungary turning bread into roses above the door.