Living in Nitra

Student life

In Slovakia, people do several sports: volleyball, cycling, swimming, hiking, skiing, and of course football, tennis and ice hokey, which are the three most popular sports of the country. Internationally, the Slovak ice hokey team has been ranked as the 8th best team in the world in 2012.

In SUA, we can do sport easily: we have opportunity to practice activities during our leisure time. There’s a University Sports Center near the dormitory, which permit to do sport without having to move in town. In this Center, there’s a multipurpose gym, a swimming pool, a fitness centre, tennis courts, and many others. « University days » are organised twice in a year with another university in Nitra, with sport competitions, cultural activities and social events.

There’s also the folklore ensemble « Zobor », composed of students of SUA divised in three groups: dancing, musical and girls choir. Furthermore, a theatre group plays and there are several associations that students can join.

There are also some bars and night clubs in the city: Luna disco cocktail club, Barracuda, Mexiko night-club, etc…

Housing

In Nitra, there are some accommodations or apartments that you can find if you want to stay during a period. But because we come in Nitra in the middle of the year, the majority of apartments are already rented. If you come at the beginning of the school year, you can search easily something. The price fluctuate between 200 euros and 400 euros, depend on what type of flat do you want.

So we decided to take dormitories in the Slovak University of Agriculture to facilitate our demarche. It is the University which attribute us a room and we do not have some documents to complete.

Interesting sites

Nitra played a key role in the history of the Great Moravian Empire and of the young Hungarian Kingdom.

In Nitra you can find several unique monuments and sites of European historical importance. Nitra, the seat of Prince Pribina and King Svätopluk, was and persists to be a symbol of historical values and traditions for the Slovak nation. For these reasons it has been given the title of “The Mother of Slovak towns”.

Two large universities, museums and several institutions of cultural importance reside in Nitra. There are many places worth visiting. The people of Nitra are proud of their Andrej Bagar Theatre. The extensive exhibition area of Agrokomplex is a place where many international fairs and exhibitions take place.

places-to-visit-in-nitraSource: Visiting guide

Good deals

For eating :

  • The Hoffer (considered as the best restaurant in Nitra)
  • Hokkerska
  • Paladium
  • Bobaccio

For visiting cultural sites :

  • Castle in Nitra
  • Pribina Square
  • The Calvary in Nitra
  • The Theatre

To go on a night out in Nitra :

Clubs :

  • Devils
  • Luna
  • Rio
  • Barracuda
  • Nova Petkarem

Pubs :

  • Music a caffe
  • Green Billard
  • The Irish Times Pub

Public Transport

Nitra has a very good public transport with buses, taxis and aslo train.

Buses run between each town, city center and tourist attractive places. We can take a train to near cities or villages from Nitra train station. There are many Taxi services like CD-TAXI, MOJE TAXI, CITY TAXI, TAXI OK and WFR TAXI.