Natural feature
Zlaté Piesky
Flooded former gravel pit with sandy beaches, an island and summer swimming on the city's eastern edge.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Zlaté Piesky, the former gravel pit on Bratislava's eastern edge, turns on a summer morning in July nineteen seventy-six, when a Czechoslovak Airlines flight from Prague began its approach to the nearby airport with seventy-nine people aboard. It also reaches back to the nineteen fifties, when digging for gravel let groundwater flood the pit. Best heard from the shore, looking out over the open water.
This audio guide was created using AI.