Our hotel is slightly outside the centre, but that meant that we would see the beautiful and curvy roof of Michael's Gate every time we went in or out.
A small treat on a corner was this statue of a man climbing out of the drains. Actually it looks much better than it sounds. And it also looks better in real life than this photo.
My favourite place was a gorgeous blue church, apparently called the Blue Church, and it fitted it's description.
We arrived by chance exactly at 11am and watched latecomers rushing in, while at a side entrance the priest and his entourage stood to attention before heading inside.
Down by the river is a curious sight, known as the UFO building. It was built during Soviet times as apparently they were very interested in the idea of visitors from outer space.
We walked past the base of it and visitors were waiting for the angled lift in one of the legs to take them up to a rather expensive viewing platform.
Instead of gaining altitude in an elevator, we walked up to the castle on the opposite bank.
It's a forbidding looking place, although it has nice cool tree lined gardens and a great view of both the UFO tower and the town.
This is St Martin's Cathedral, and is known for being the coronation church in the Habsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary.
(For those with a good memory, the amazing palace in Vienna was built by the unbelievably wealthy Habsburg family.)
I am interested in this cathedral because we also have a clear view of it from our Coronation bedroom at the hotel. 11 kings and queens were crowned there between 1563 and 1830, and their pictures fill our wall. My favourite is Rudolph.
Final interesting fact, a replica of the Hungarian crown weighing 300 kilograms and almost as tall as me is on the tip of the tower.
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