{"id":5163,"date":"2025-05-22T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:27:17","slug":"bratislava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/bratislava\/","title":{"rendered":"Bratislava"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leaning into our spontaneity while in Vienna<\/a>, we decided on a day trip to Bratislava – easily accessible from Vienna via an hour’s boat trip on the Danube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wandering further, we came to what is known as the Blue Church<\/a>, more formally, the Church of St. Elizabeth, built in the early 1900’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue, both inside and out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image depicts the famous ‘\u010cumil’ (The Peeper or Man at Work) statue located in the Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia. Created by Viktor Hul\u00edk in 1997, it is one of the most iconic and photographed pieces of street art in the city. The specific design of the man’s expression, his clothing, and the surrounding cobblestone pattern are unique to this specific location at the intersection of Laurinsk\u00e1 and Pansk\u00e1 streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image shows the famous Napoleon’s Soldier statue on a bench in front of the French Embassy at Hlavn\u00e9n\u00e1mestie (Main Square) in Bratislava, Slovakia. This is confirmed by the French flag and the specific architecture of the Kutscherfeld Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael’s Gate, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael%27s_Gate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaning into our spontaneity while in Vienna, we decided on a day trip to Bratislava – easily accessible from Vienna via an hour’s boat trip on the Danube. Wandering further, we came to what is known as the Blue Church, more formally, the Church of St. Elizabeth, built in the early 1900’s. Blue, both inside and out! The image depicts the famous ‘\u010cumil’ (The Peeper or Man at Work) statue located in the Old Town of Bratislava, Slovakia. Created byRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-hiking.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-25-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}