Alla voce “Bratislava” di Wikipedia si può trovare un profilo fin troppo roseo della capitale Slovacca: un centro storico pieno di castelli, palazzi, musei e luoghi di culto. Le università? Tante e rinomate, come il conservatorio che prepara good musicians. Not to mention the list of students and schools
compulsory and higher. Data in hand these stories are true, yet there is only this Bratislava. To understand this we must look around the streets of suburban route to the beauty of the old town. The impact is different. Sixty-bus, which connects the airport to the city, the idea of \u200b\u200bimaginary Bratislava changes. There are no palaces, but grim communist-style homes. Universities are schools full of graffiti and left to go, where you can see a couple of bored students smoke.
The city is not very big but to reach the hotel you need to take another tram. The metro is just a project yet to be realized. Without appropriate guidance, they end up running between dealers to find someone who speaks English tickets go to time and without guidance, it is impossible to find the right one! As I got closer to the center of the environment
does not change much, but the percentage of houses "healthy" compared to those looking shaky increases. Fortunately, the hotel has a soothing facade and a girl at the reception welcoming visitors politely. He speaks English.
The road to the center is family. Mc Donald, shops
clothing famous everywhere, the inevitable Chinese restaurants and kebab shops. Entering the center you pass under the door of St. Michael, the last witness of the ancient walls, to be greeted by a street full of bars, tables and tents. This is the heart of Bratislava, Stare Mesto, the historic district. The atmosphere around the looming again as the buildings repainted and refurbished the old town, maybe too light to convey the authority of the old. The statues of black metal makes it feel strange to the landscape, while the eyes are all enthralled by metal figure of a man who emerges from the manhole. She smiles with her head on her arms crossed, as if it were normal dangling from a hole in the road. In front of the neo-classical National Theatre extends a street full of modern sculptures and a giant chess game with living pieces of improvisation. At the end of the path
the famous bridge UFO. The name actually refers to the restaurant located above the bridge, disc-shaped, which overlooks the river and downtown. There, the view of the city, if you like, you can enjoy even the bathroom, where a sign in English says, "Do you like the view?". The Danube flows under cloudy and yellow. When passing people tremble gently, particularity is its vibrant structure, giving a feeling of insecurity, together with the traffic flowing above the walkway. Another building that dominates the city is the castle. Visible from all parts of the old, appears today as an Austrian-style building, rebuilt after the Second World War
. Like many other buildings, is still being restored. In Bratislava reconstructed monuments are many. Some of them, lost among the narrow streets of the center, leaving in time to see more styles stratified, amalgamated by recent restorations.
In these streets where new and old meet
not always harmoniously, is the soul of the city. E 'visible only at night, when the center is filled with people. Pubs, bars and exclusive restaurants collect and Slovak tourists. Façades little solid and open rooms furnished old dirty and crowded, where the food is cheap and offers a number of good specialty. Meat, bacon, potatoes and beer mix with the smoke and the dark faces of the waiters. Order is not always easy: the English is known by a select few. It asks covers parts of crude manners and little warmth. In a local call on a group of foreign students to sit outside, because inside would cause discomfort. The street's inhabitants are distinguished suffered by groups of tourists. Boys do flock toghether a robust physical and invariably head shaved, while girls makeup and evening dresses
provocative glances to tourists, snatching praise and reviews for men and women. One way to escape from this town or just out of misery. It looks like a closed place and not very willing to accept the other, as if he had other means to protect themselves from the recent influx of immigrants and tourists that involves her. At the same time benefit and condemnation.
Andrea Fasani
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