Your January guide to the city’s cultural highlights.

I was nine in 1968 when my family left. Faith, exile and sacrifice shaped what followed.

Analysts say political instability affects Slovakia’s score, though its location in a safe region remains a key advantage.

A home in northern Slovakia has become an unexpected festive attraction, with motorists pulling over to photograph a spectacular sea of lights.

From aristocratic salons to rationed shops, salónky trace central Europe’s political shifts through a single Christmas tradition.

Ring in the New Year with live music in the city centre, or keep the festive mood going with a Christmas concert by Le Payaco.

See in the New Year in the Old Town, run across Bratislava’s bridges, or take a festive ride on the Christmas tram.

From aristocratic salons to rural homes, the Christmas tree spread slowly across Europe, evolving alongside technology, taste and safety.

Most Slovak shops will once again close for the Christmas holidays.

New €3 fee on small parcels could hit millions of online shoppers across Europe.

Christmas can be especially hard if you live abroad.

The Bulgarian lev will be replaced by the euro on 1 January, with Slovak central bank branches offering free banknote exchanges for a limited period.

The central bank expects growth to remain below 1 percent next year, as continued consolidation weighs on households while public debt and budget pressures persist.

In central Slovakia, the country’s largest cuckoo clock now marks the hour with folk musicians, blending superstition, music and craft.

Shame has value, even when those who evoke it pretend to ignore it.

PM Fico’s delayed gift, drama on the Slovak–Austrian border, and Piešťany pulling out of an international hockey tournament over a bizarre legal dispute.

Peter Pellegrini’s joint visit to Vojvodina with Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić has angered Slovaks who accuse Bratislava of ignoring repression and dissent.

In the Slovak Karst National Park, the Zádiel Valley offers towering limestone cliffs, birds of prey and accessible walking trails.

While Prague sells its mystique, Bratislava’s churches hold untold stories of faith, conflict and solidarity uncovered by photographer Andrej Ďuríček.

After missed deadlines, fired contractors, waterlogged rock and costs running into the hundreds of millions, the Višňové tunnel is finally open.