Bratislava City Center Walking Tour, Saturday, April 18, 2026
The Bratislava city walking tour starts at 3:30 PM and ends about 6 PM.
Participants meet near the main Comenius University building at Šafárikovo Square.
The guided tour combines visits to key religious and cultural monuments (the Blue Church, St. Martin's Cathedral, and the Chatam Sófer Memorial) highlighting the city‘s historically multi-religious and multi-ethnic character, with examples of modern architecture from the second half of the 20th century (the Slovak National Gallery and the SNP Bridge/UFO).
The tour concludes with a walk along the Danube riverbank.
Sunday Trip to Nitra, Sunday, April 19, 2026
The trip will be organized provided that at least 25 participants register.
The bus is expected to depart from the vicinity of Comenius University in Bratislava along the Danube embankment at around 9 AM.
The trip to Nitra takes approximately 90 minutes. The estimated return time to Bratislava is around 4:30 PM.
The first confirmed written mention of the city dates back to 828. The asteroid (9543) Nitra is named after the city. Nitra is a city of exceptional historical significance. Evidence of settlement in the area dates back to prehistoric times; as early as 30,000 years ago, it was densely populated. Settlements of the earliest agricultural inhabitants appeared in the area nearly 6,000 years ago. The area of today's Nitra was an important center for the Celts, followed by Germanic tribes, and finally the Slavs. From the 8th century until 1108, Nitra was the seat of the Principality of Nitra and one of the centers of Great Moravia. Nitra is home to one of the earliest known Christian churches in Central and Eastern Europe, built in 828, and became the seat of the first diocese from 880. The basilica discovered beneath Nitra Castle is possibly the earliest Christian church of the Western and Eastern Slavs, dating to 828. After the fall of Great Moravia, the city of Nitra and Nitra Castle were gradually conquered and repeatedly damaged during wars and anti-Habsburg uprisings.
