Bratislava (population 428,672) is the capital of Slovakia. It is located on the banks of Danube river (the second longest river in Europe) in SW corner of the country, where the borders of three countries meet: Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.

In abroad, the people do not realize that Berlin was not the only urban landscape where the former iron curtain was passing through. Also here, a lot of people invented the most bizarre ways how to escape from the communist side of this line that divided countries, municipalities and even ... (more)