Statue of Janko Kráľ

Coordinates: 48°08′N 17°06′E / 48.133°N 17.100°E / 48.133; 17.100

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.[1] One of them was used as a model for this statue from academic sculptor František Gibala.,[2] in 1964.[3]

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