Bratislava Castle

Bratislava Castle sits on a 85-metre sandstone hill above the old town and the Danube, its four-cornered white mass and square towers forming one of the most recognisable silhouettes in the Carpathian Basin. The castle served as a seat of Hungarian royalty after the Ottoman advance pushed the court north, and its western terrace overlooks the curve of the Danube toward Austria. The current appearance reflects a postwar reconstruction of the structure destroyed by fire in 1811.