Michael's Gate
Last surviving medieval town gate, crowned by a baroque tower and a statue of the Archangel Michael.
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This guide to Michael's Gate in Bratislava starts at your feet, in the passage under the last surviving gate of the medieval walls, and follows the town's uneasy relationship with punishment. It turns to the narrow lane beside the tower once known as Executioner's Street, and to the man the town paid and still shunned. Best heard standing in the gate passage itself.
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