Bratislava’s three-nave Gothic cathedral was built on the site of a former church. After 1291, when Bratislava was given the privileges of a town, the church was rebuilt to become part of the city walls. The present church was consecrated in 1452. Between 1563 and 1830 St Martin’s served as the coronation church for Hungarian kings and their consorts, marked to this day by a 300-kg gilded replica of the Hungarian royal crown perched on the top of the cathedral’s 85-meter-tall neo-Gothic tower. Ten kings, one queen and seven royal wives from the Habsburg Dynasty were crowned in St. Martin’s Cathedral. Bratislava