"I admit that Bratislava used to leave me cold," travel expert Rick Steves declared, saying that the city's old town was a ...

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Bratislava, capital of Slovakia and just an hour by train from Vienna, is the comeback kid among European capitals. A decade ago, the city was virtually a ghost town. But today, Bratislava is ...