Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Slovakia

This was another shot that I couldn't resist converting to black and white. I hope you like it.

Here's one of the cruder looking towers on the castle wall, again a great shot to take in the snow. I really like the cannon up there in the gun port. It's a nice detail, don't you think?

And....here's another detail shot.

Here's a detail shot of the castle, showing some of the outbuildings.

Bratislavsky Hrad may be, like many Czech castles, an unconventional one, but one conventional thing it does have is a courtyard. Like many such places, it looks great in the snow. :-)

It was snowing quite heavily when I took this, as it was December, but the primary subject here is the Slovenske Narodne Divadlo, or Slovak National Theatre, which is that big building to the left of the tram. There are actually two National Theatres, however. This is the older one, dating to 1920 (although it looks older, and it is, as you'll read below), and then there's the modern Slovenske Narodne Divadlo, completed in 2007, which had yet to open when I took this. In actuality, this building predates 1920 as a building, having originally been built in 1886 as the City Theatre.

I figured the chapel looked quite good in black and white, especially since it was a way to compensate for a cheesy print scan (I was in a hurry when I did these).

Here's a more proper shot of the Chapel at Bratislavsky Hrad.

Unlike most castles, which have the chapel integrated into the castle itself, Bratislavsky Hrad has a seperate set of buildings on the side of the castle mound. The chapel is the building on the left.

Dating, as far as I can tell, to the 13th Century, the Starej Radnice, or Old Town Hall, has undergone many, many renovations, the most recent being in 1964. As such it has picked up elements of almost every European style.

Here's a shot of the medieval Bratislava city wall.

Here's a rear view of the cathedral.

Although the site dates to Roman times, and was in fact the site of a Roman Church, the current St. Martin's Concathedral (formerly St. Martin's Cathedral) dates to 1221, although it was renovated in the 14th, 15th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Originally, it was incorporated into the city walls, of which you can see the remains on the left. In the days when Bratislava (then Pressburg) was the capital of Hungary(1563-1830), it served as the coronation chapel. Maria Theresa was one of the better known monarchs crowned here.

I shot this to get a combination of old and new, with Cafe Moda in the foreground and Michelska Brana in the background.

Technically on Zidovske ulica, very close to Beblaveho ulica (the previous photo showed the corner of Zidovske and Beblaveho Streets), this building was not always a clock museum, being built in 1760-1765 as the "House of the Good Shepherd" in Rococo style.

Since the original shot was taken during a snow storm, and very white, I decided that I would try a black and white conversion. I hope you like it. :-)

Novy Most is an impressive feat of modern engineering, at least in terms of looks. Built over the River Danube in 1967-1972, it was part of a trend towards single-pylon cable-stayed bridges, with another notable one being built in Usti nad Labem (which in those days was part of the same country, Czechoslovakia). The tower on top of the pylon is ranked 26th in the World Federation of towers, being 84.6 meters high.

Built in 1717-1727, the Trinitarian Church of Bratislava was built mainly to defy the Ottoman Turkish armies that were threatening Bratislava (then Pressburg) at that time.