Bardejov I.

Summer 2004 in Slovakia  ·  all photographs (c) 2004 Daniel Nagaj

Bardejov, northeastern Slovakia. Population: ~ 36 000.
(the winter pictures are from my last trip to Bardejov,
I added them to give a more complete portrait of the city)

Bardejov. King's city. First mentioned in Ipatyev Monastery Chronicle, 1241.

Still ongoing reconstruction. Now you can finally see Bardejov without all the scafolding :-) However, the city square is getting a new stone-floor. The photo of the unlucky worker just reminds me of the statue (above). The statue is a vengeance of an artist to a city mayor, who didn't want to pay him enough. So he added another statue to a row of statues under the roof of the city-hall, with a bare butt facing the mayor's house :-)

Bardejov. Take 2. The communist architecture changed a lot of things...
The statue is a statue of Alois Jirasek, famous czech writer, in front of my high school.
The block of flats is where my home is. The gypsy woman picking out trash in front
of our house has a bag from a supermarket, saying "we bought hyper-cheaply"...
"Okresna kniznica" is the regional library. Ah, all those fantastic Jules Verne books!

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Bardejov II. & Bratislava

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