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Statue of Janko Kráľ

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Statue of Janko Kráľ
Statue of Janko Kráľ

Statue of Janko Kráľ is located in the middle of Sad Janka Kráľa (literally Janko Kráľ Park/Garden) in the Petržalka borough in Bratislava, Slovakia. Janko Kráľ was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national revivalist. It is not exactly known how he looked, but several popular supposed pictures of him exist. One of them was used as a model for this statue from academic sculptor František Gibala., in 1964.

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Statue of Janko Kráľ
Viedenská cesta, Bratislava Dvory (District of Bratislava V)

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Viedenská cesta 3-7
851 01 Bratislava, Dvory (District of Bratislava V)
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