Estátua do Soldado de Napoleão
Bronze Napoleonic soldier in bicorne hat leaning on a square bench, a favourite photo companion.
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This guide to the bronze Napoleonic soldier on Bratislava's Main Square follows the legend of Hubert, a French trooper said to have stayed behind for love and for sparkling wine. It moves between the French armies that came through Pressburg, the city's oldest sparkling wine cellar, and the Slovak sculptor Juraj Meliš, who gave the soldier a bench of his own in the late nineteen nineties. Best heard sitting on that bench beside him.
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