Pálffy Palace - Bratislava City Gallery
Aristocratic palace turned art gallery, with a Gothic chapel and a Celtic mint beneath its floors.
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This audio guide to Pálffy Palace in Bratislava leaves the paintings upstairs and heads underground, to a basement dig in the early nineteen eighties and the Boii, a Celtic tribe of the first century before Christ. It follows the silver coins they struck on this spot, the riders and creatures they chose to stamp on them, and the Latin letters that make them some of the region's oldest writing. Best heard in the courtyard before heading down to the underground rooms.
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