Medzijarky Park's 15-Foot UFO: A Public Art Landmark Preserving Bratislava's Soviet-Era History

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Juraj Hovorka created a 15‑foot‑tall, 26‑foot‑wide UFO sculpture perched on a hill in Bratislava’s Medzijarky Park, a Soviet‑era housing district where children could once crawl inside, and when removal was proposed locals lobbied to keep it, making it a notable example of monumental realism along the Danube and the city’s second‑famous extraterrestrial landmark after the Danube bridge UFO that now houses a restaurant, with ahvenas documenting it and captions credited to Juraj Hovorka and Costel Slincu.