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Introducing Bratislava Bratislava is the capital city of Slovakia, surprisingly dynamic and full of lovely places where you can spend your time. The city shows a great balance in keeping its old and traditional values undisturbed in a modern environment. In Bratislava we can indeed find one city part with factories, skyscrapers and shopping centres, whilst in the other, older part we can walk around in little lanes and find beautiful squares, theatres, fantastic chocolate shops and statues of funny local characters. This is a really traditional aspect of the Slovakian culture and we can find many typical statues; one of the most renowned ones is curiously staring at people and playfully peeping under a woman's skirt. I think this is the best part of the city for
tourists to have a glimpse of fect place, where you can the citizens' actual lifestyle. spend time with friends. There are lot of traditional Bratislava also contains restaurants like historical a great number of historic chalets with typical Slovak buildings, which mostly are style. Bratislava is known for located within the center of the delicious beer, so thethe city. Historic buildings re are lot of breweries and can be found on the outs- pubs with local beer. For kirts of the city surrounded coffee lovers there are a lot by beautiful nature as well of coffee houses too with as only a few minutes’ drive typical homemade or raw from the center of Bratisla- sweets and we can't forget va. A large part of the his- about the many chocolate toric buildings that can be factories and bakeries. Dufound in Bratislava are great ring weekends, there are a castles that make a good lot of traditional markets trip for tourists who seek a with Slovak products like good sightseeing spot, but cheese, fresh fruits or vegethese buildings are also a tables of the season, meat perfect place to learn about and other products. So BraBratislava’s history. Most tislava is the perfect place castles offer great views, art, for hanging out with friends guided tours and cafés if you or for people who like good that you need. And it is not if you like shopping. Theneed to grab a bite. cuisine. very expensive there. In the re are many shopping censhopping centers there are Bratislava is also the per- The city is a good place ters, where you can buy all a lot of well-known brands and some local little stores. In the center of Bratislava there are many fascinating souvenir boutiques and fine streets which are surrounded by high quality shops and cozy cafeterias. And if you the have time, you can go to Vienna which is also a shopping paradise only an hour away from Bratislava.
connect till the last corner of Bratislava. Another activity that we did was go to a technology business where its boss gave us a question time to teach us how he became an entrepreneur and showed us the company. We also visited a castle outside Bratislava, a very old castle with many rooms and thanks to a guide we could see all of them and know the castle’s history, and the guide told us that a long time ago this castle was used by very important people.
This is what Carlos from Thomas: The trip to BraSpain and Thomas from tislava was the best moment Greece had to say about in my life because I had the their trip to Bratislava chance to make new friends. I also had the chance to Carlos: The first day each improve my teamwork skills. of us was welcomed by a fa- I liked the Red Castle, the mily which showed us local UFO Tower with the best living there for a week du- view I have ever see in my life ring which which we shared and the visit to the compacustoms, talked and met ny Pixel Federation because different cultures. My trips in the future I want to work to different places like Bra- with computers and make vitislava Castle or a tour pre- deo games. I would love to pared by the city helped me visit Bratislava again. learn a little more about the place, a city that is composed of several tram lines that