The picnic table where you can eat in three countries at once
The picnic table where you can eat in three countries at once
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Forget interrailing — tick three countries off your bucket list with a visit to this remote picnic spot instead. Located in the village of Čunovo, Slovakia, the table sits in a sculpture park at a tripoint where the border meets Hungary and Austria.
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Because of its position and design, people from all three countries can sit together without leaving their homeland. The table has become a tourist attraction, but it’s also a reminder of the dark, complicated history that separated these central European nations.
The sculpture park was built in 1991, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the boundary that separated the Soviet Union and its allies from the West during the Cold War. Hungary and Slovakia, the latter of which was part of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia until 1993, were both part of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, while Austria sat to the west of the Iron Curtain.
But in 1989, the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria cut through the border fence between the two countries, marking the beginning of the end for pro-Soviet regimes in central and eastern Europe. Now, the sculpture park symbolises unity between Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.
We went to the tripoint border of Austria,Hungary & Slovakia. The tripoint is near the Slovak village of Čunovo, as well as the Hungarian village of Rajka and the Austrian village of Deutsch Jahrndorf. Located around 20 kilometers south of the center of Bratislava, the tripoint is easiest accessed with a bike or car.
