Petržalka is the district of panel blocks across the Danube from the old town, and it has more room to run than it looks. These are the parks and playgrounds we'd pick there: play areas with climbing and spinning gear for younger kids, and big, shady park paths for scooters, bikes and a picnic blanket.
Jama is a public sports and play ground built by the Petržalka borough at the junction of Vyšehradská, Šášovská and Vígľašská streets, reopened in October 2017 after a long-awaited rebuild. The whole 1,700-square-meter yard is covered in soft polyurethane surfacing with play features built into it, and it is laid out for toddlers, teenagers and parents at once. Benches and bike racks line the edges.
A large playground on the bank of the Chorvátske rameno, split into a toddler zone and a zone for bigger kids. Both have swings, slides, climbing frames and merry-go-rounds, and a toy train gives kids something to climb aboard. Tall trees shade much of the play area, and there are plenty of benches for parents.
Janko Kráľ Park is a 25-hectare landscape park on the Danube bank between the Old and New Bridges, laid out for the public in the 1770s. Wide lawns sit under plane trees about 200 years old, and paths link the Janko Kráľ statue, the Fountain of the Drinking Dove and the top of a Gothic church tower, now a garden pavilion.
Petržalka is the district of panel blocks across the Danube from the old town, and it has more room to run than it looks. These are the parks and playgrounds we'd pick there: play areas with climbing and spinning gear for younger kids, and big, shady park paths for scooters, bikes and a picnic blanket.
Jama is a public sports and play ground built by the Petržalka borough at the junction of Vyšehradská, Šášovská and Vígľašská streets, reopened in October 2017 after a long-awaited rebuild. The whole 1,700-square-meter yard is covered in soft polyurethane surfacing with play features built into it, and it is laid out for toddlers, teenagers and parents at once. Benches and bike racks line the edges.
A large playground on the bank of the Chorvátske rameno, split into a toddler zone and a zone for bigger kids. Both have swings, slides, climbing frames and merry-go-rounds, and a toy train gives kids something to climb aboard. Tall trees shade much of the play area, and there are plenty of benches for parents.
Janko Kráľ Park is a 25-hectare landscape park on the Danube bank between the Old and New Bridges, laid out for the public in the 1770s. Wide lawns sit under plane trees about 200 years old, and paths link the Janko Kráľ statue, the Fountain of the Drinking Dove and the top of a Gothic church tower, now a garden pavilion.
