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Kaštieľ v Prievoze

Slovakia

The name tells you who wanted it here. Kaštieľ v Prievoze is also known as the Čáki manor, or in the older spelling the Csáky manor, after Count Eugen Čáki, who had it built near Bratislava as his summer residence. The date usually given is 1902, but the source hedges it with a 'probably', so treat that year as likely rather than certain. What you are looking at, then, was never a fortress or a working estate house. It was a seasonal retreat, a place to escape the city without going far from it.

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