Námestie SNP
Central square of 1989 protest rallies, anchored by a bronze memorial to the wartime uprising.
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This guide to SNP Square in Bratislava is set in November 1989, among the painters, sculptors, actors and musicians who met in a flat and an artists’ club and then walked out into this square. It sets them against the bronze partisan and two grieving women that a socialist-realist sculptor placed here fifteen years earlier. Stand facing the monument, with the open square at your back.
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