Košice

Aida

Popular ice cream and pastry place, formerly a chain, now just this café.

Ajvega

A vegetarian and celiac diet friendly meals and pizzas providing restaurant. Dietary meals (with some including meat) offered at the 'tower', upstairs. A quiet place with a terrace enjoyable on warmer days. A weekday inexpensive midday lunch menu offered.

EUR 5-9 (Feb 2018)

Andrassy Palace

Andrášiho palác

A three floor Neo-Baroque building constructed in 1899, with the blazon of the family on the façade. Nowadays the building houses a tea house and a restaurant.

Anicka

pronounced as [ahnjiczka]

A popular park area and easily approachable weekend hangout for many locals. Tennis, playgrounds for children, summer swimming pool, pubs and lovely evening walks by the river. Take bus 71/72/29 north from the city center to 'Mier' stop and ask for directions.

Archeological museum Lower gate

Archeologické múzeum Dolná brána

Newly reconstructed archaeological basement of the main street at the lower gate of the 13th century fortifications of the city. Additionally you can still find parts of fortification in other places around the city center. All videos and text in the museum has English, Hungarian and Slovak description.

Mon-Tue Thu-Sat 10:00-18:00, Wed Sun 10:00-22:00·Adults €4

Atrium Optima

Optima Shopping Centre

The biggest shopping centre in Eastern Slovakia. It is 53 300 m² and has more than 175 boutiques and a multiscreen cinema Cinemax with 7 screens. You can get there easily by public transport with tram no. 5 or bus no. 10.

Daily 09:00-21:00

Barca Park

Barčiansky Park

A nice park, 7 hectares in size in the suburb of Barca. It has a pond, a statue of pope John Paul II (at the tram stop) and is lined by two manors.

Beer House

Beer House offers probably the widest range of beers in the city. The cheapest beer is for €1.06/0.5l, most expensive €1.96/0.5l. They offer pizza at the same time and you can order it until 2am. There is live music every Thursday and Saturday.

Beggar's House

Zobrakov dom

For an interesting story you may look up the Beggar's House which is one of the historical houses on Hlavna (on the right between the Theater and Immaculata when walking up north). On forefront, at top of the house you will see a statue of a guy with a hat thanking/begging for alms. The story says the career beggar who had no other income had over years used generosity of rich Košice dwellers to build the house at what was then a very 'high-end' medieval (a.k.a. Hlavna Street) part of Košice. This kind of largess may seem to be perceived a bit strange by today's beggars rarely appreciating Košice inhabitants, but it still makes up for a good narrative.

Bernard club

Bar on the first floor of a house near the cathedral, often crowded.

Bishop's Palace

Biskupský Palác

The archbishop of Eger was exiled in Košice for a long time in the 17th century, but in 1804 the city got its own bishop and four houses next to the cathedral was transformed into a bishop's residence. It burned down in 1841 and was rebuilt in its current form, later the library and left wing was added. The house was empty for much of the Communist Era, but returned to its former use afterwards. In 1995 the pope promoted the office of the bishop of Košice to the status of archbishop, so the building is the residence of an archbishop.

Bistro Záhrada

Another popular Slovak-style "Biergarten", a nice place to sit on a warm summer evening. During wintertime it's a small bar in a basement with boardgames.

Botanical Garden

Botanicka zahrada

Different local trees growing outdoors, and a greenhouse with tropical trees and plants. There are regular themed exhibitions related to for instance butterflies, fossils or cacti.

children €2, adults €3

Caffé Trieste

Italian-style café part of a chain. The chain has three other cafés in Košice: at Žriedlová 11 west of old town, at Trieda SNP 395/37 further west and at Južna trieda 2/A south of old town.

Calvinist church

Kalvínsky kostol

Built in 1805-11, with a very simple interior composed of only a pulpit. The metal rooster on the spire is much older, made in 1589.

Camelot

Pub with a Medieval theme, traditional food such as pork knuckle or goulash, with quality beef from a known local supplier. Unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell on tap. A bit expensive but they have lunch specials on week days.

€9-22 (April 2015)

Cassovia

Carrefour

Shopping mall with a Carrefour hypermarket and a large Décathlon sports store.

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God

Chrám Narodenia presvätej Bohorodičky

Greek-Catholic church in Neo-Romanesque style built between 1882 and 1898. The iconostasis and chair were installed in 1901, and the church was elevated to cathedral status in 2008.

Cemetery Rozália

The final resting place for many important and wealthy personalities in the city, and many tombstones are quite impressive.

Children's Heritage Railway

Detska historicka zeleznica

3-km-long railway line in the forest. Three locomotives, Katka-named vapor locomotive, Danka and Janka diesel locomotives operating from the end of the suburbs to the recreational area of Alpinka.

children: one way €3/roundtrip €4, adults: one way €5/roundtrip €6

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary/Dominican church

Dominikánsky kostol

The oldest building in Košice. The frescoes inside create the illusion that the building has no roof. There's a monastery adjacent to the church.

Entrée libre

Church of the Holy Trinity

Kostol Najsvätejšej Trojice

Constructed in 1681 on the place where Protestant Prince George I Rákóczi tortured three Jesuits - Marek Križin, Melicher Grodecký and Štefan Pongrác. They're known as the holy martyrs of Košice.

City Park

Mestsky park

Main city park created in the 1860s and renovated in 2013. There are very beautiful trees, a kiosk with from time to time a concert, a fountain and lake, a small bridge, a children's playground and fitness facilities.

Mon-Sun 06:00-22:00

Collosseum

Dominikanske namestie, at the end of the square with a bit of hidden entry though fairly huge with several pubs inside the space. An alternative music and lifestyle craving types may find this one to be a great place for an entertaining hangout or a not occasional international live music act. Also a great place for partying even until the weekday wee hours. Discretion or attending in wider groups may be advised.

Craftsmen's house

Dom remesiel

A museum presenting the different crafts that were practiced in the region in the Middle Ages, that also contributed to theur development.

Csáky-Dezőfi palace

Čákiho-Dezőfiho palác

Count Antal Csáky had this palace built in 1807. Count Abaúj-Torna, the county governor, resided here in the 1840s, then the Dezőfi family. One of the most pompous buildings in the city, it has hosted many important guests including Russian Tsars. In 1965 the palace was turned into an art gallery, and from 1993 to 2007 the Constitutional Court of Slovakia functioned here. Nowadays it's a major library.

Cubano Bar - Shisha - Milkshake - Shots

City Košice cafe bar

You can try a water-pipe (shisha, hookah.) here with numerous options for quality tobacco blends. Good place to watch football.

Dobré časy

A large choice of beers, 26 on tap, and a choice of small dishes and hamburgers.

Dominikánske Námestie market

Regional producers sell products like seasonal vegetables, eggs, honey or flowers, old ladies selling products from their gardens and Romani selling berries from the mountains.

every morning excepy Sun

East Slovak Gallery

Vychodoslovenska galeria

Regional art gallery. Includes rotating temporary art exhibitions.

Tue-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat Sun 13:00-18:00·Student €5.5, adult €7