Bratislava – the little big city, as the tourist board calls it. Slovakia's
capital, lingering somewhere between the past and the present, is best
encapsulated by a view from its iconic castle with four towers. When you climb
up, a huge concrete plain unravels in front of your eyes. Petržalka, one of the
largest concrete block estates in Central Europe, with the otherwordly UFO tower
dominating the view. The city has undergone rapid development since 1989, with
turbo-capitalism swiftly replacing communism in the 1990s, the remnants of both
can still be witnessed in the city's topography. Hungry developers keep eyeing
up yet another piece of urban landscape. Recently, the city has experienced an
awakening of civic conscioussness in the wake of the murder of an investigative
journalist and his fiancee and its political implications, with massive protests
taking place in the city centre eve...
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