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The Slovak capital Bratislava is taking part once more in MIPIM, the international trade fair for property and investment opportunities, from 16 to 19 March 2010 in the French Riviera town of Cannes.

BRATISLAVA has another five-star hotel. On February 24, Sheraton Hotel opened its doors to guests as the first building operating within the new Eurovea centre on the north embankment of the Danube River.

LOCAL preservationists claim that protected land of a pheasantry in Jarovce near Bratislava has been illegally transferred to private hands, said Viera Kimerlingová, a Petržalka local council member at a press conference held by the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).

Bratislava SHOW:
THE SLOVAK National Theatre in Bratislava will feature a retrospective of world-renowned Slovak mime, tutor, lecturer, director and author Milan Sládek on March 14 in its historical building. The show will offer a ‘best of’ overview of Sládek’s 50 years of professional work from his first attempts at this genre, Slnečnica (Sunflower), through classical French pantomime (Pierot’s Loves) and parody (Chocho San), to biblical stories (Kain a Ábel, Herodes, and others).

March 26th – March 28th 2010 in BRATISLAVA

THE MORTAL remains of Peter Pázmány, a Roman Catholic Cardinal, the Archbishop of Esztergom, and a Jesuit priest will be ceremoniously re-interred in Bratislava’s St. Martin’s Cathedral and the site of his grave will be clearly marked, said Jozef Haľko, spokesman for the Bratislava Archdiocese, who also noted for the TASR newswire that Pázmány had asked in his last testament to be buried in this cathedral.

BRATISLAVA’s M.R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) handled 91,321 passengers in January 2010, a drop of 10 percent year-on-year, BTS spokesperson Dana Madunická told the TASR newswire on February 22. Lower figures were recorded for both international and domestic air transport.

THE BURGER King chain of fast food restaurants based in the US and operating worldwide will open its first facility in Slovakia at the end of March 2010 at the Eurovea complex along the Danube River, the web portal aktualne.sk wrote on February 20.

Bratislava CONCERT: A CONCERT by the world famous Jan Garbarek Group will take place in the legendary PKO building in Bratislava on March 2. Garbarek, a world-renown tenor saxophonist, has attracted a huge following with his compositions as well as his improvisations.