Bratislava Reduta
Neo-Baroque concert palace on a former granary site, home of the national philharmonic orchestra.
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This guide to the Reduta in Bratislava follows the money behind one of the city's grandest facades, from an eighteenth-century grain store built under Maria Theresa to the pleasure palace the city council commissioned from two Budapest architects. It touches on wartime film shows, carnival balls, a ground-floor café and bookshop, and the tenants who came long after the orchestra moved in. Best heard from the square in front of the main facade.
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