City beach to spruce up a Bratislava waterfront after all

Beach with no admission fee will change its location.

Magio Beach on Tyrš Waterfront in Bratislava in summer 2014.Magio Beach on Tyrš Waterfront in Bratislava in summer 2014. (Source: TASR)

Bratislavans and visitors to Slovakia’s capital will not be deprived of a city beach experience this year even though Magio Beach will not come back after 13 years.

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Slovak Telekom decided not to continue the city beach project in February, partly because of the revitalisation of Janko Kráľ Park in the Bratislava borough of Petržalka by the Danube, where the city beach was situated.

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However, an investor contacted the Bratislava Town Hall and announced its intention to bring the open-air free-time zone back to Bratislava this summer, the Index magazine wrote.

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