I took a city bus out today to take a look at the student dormitory complex, housing 30,000 University students. These were built in the 1960s by the Communists. The dorms are in an area of Bratislava known as Karlova Ves, west of Old Town.
The high-rises visible here are just a few of the maze of buildings in the housing complex. It's a small city in itself, with a nightclub on the right and two bus lines that wisk students into town for classes. The drinking age here is 18.
A row of small shops catering to students is opposite the bus stops. 
Just to the south of the dorms is one of the city's largest cemeteries, Slávičie údolie, which translates roughly to Nightingale Valley. Here, two flower sellers are set up on the sidewalk and seemed to be doing a brisk business today. 
I see teams of street-sweepers everywhere in this city. Here's a group this morning cleaning up the access road to the dorms. The cemetery is to the right.
At the eastern end of the access road to the dorms is the headquarters of Slovak National Television. This unremarkable high-rise is reportedly the tallest building in Slovakia, at 108 meters. Nowadays, the two channels show things like "National Treasure" dubbed into Slovak. NOTE: Click on any image in this blog to see it full-size.
1 comment:
Hi, Julie. It´s nice you saw student dormitory city, I hope you have walked far up to the hill, there are much more of them, with clubs, etc.
The entire TV building is not used already (20 floors are empty),just one third of it (8 floors) is still in use. IT was too expensive and TV has been using mostly smaller buildings close to it. I also must correct a detail: I am not aware of any Soviet TV channel being broadcast during the communist time in my country. We have got Russian TV channel only after 1990, funny, isn´t it? Erich
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