Amphitheater Pezinok
| Amfiteáter Pezinok | |
Amfík | |
 Projection area, stage and auditorium of the amphitheater in 2023 | |
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| Address | Cajlanská 7 902 01 Pezinok-Cajla Slovakia |
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| Location | Cajla, Pezinok, Slovakia |
| Coordinates | 48°17′46″N 17°16′02″E / 48.296077°N 17.267239°E |
| Public transit | Public transport lines No. 2 and 22 to/from Amfiteáter bus stop |
| Parking | outdoor parking lot |
| Owner | Town of Pezinok |
| Operator | Pezinok Cultural Center |
| Current use | amphitheater/summer cinema |
| Opened | early 1960s |
| Website | |
| kcpezinok kinopezinok | |
The Amphitheater Pezinok (Slovak: Amfiteáter Pezinok, colloquially Amfík) is an amphitheater and a summer cinema located on Cajlanská Street 7 in Cajla, Pezinok, Slovakia.
History
[edit]It was completed as part of the "Z" campaign and its construction cost 1,434,000 Kčs.[1] It has been in continuous summer activity since the early 1960s.[2]
From 1964 to 1972, the Beatclub youth club was located here.[3]
The festival Koncert mladosti was held here in 1976 and 1977.
In 1980s, the Bratislava-vidiek District Education Center (Slovak: Okresné osvetové stredisko Bratislava-vidiek) was located here, which organized the Hudobný festival mladých in 1987 and 1989.[3]
Present
[edit]The amphitheater was the first in Slovakia to be able to project digital media.[2] It is used as a summer cinema of the Pezinok Cultural Center, but also for concerts and other cultural events. Movies are always shown here at 9:15 pm, in the month of August already at 9:00 pm.[4]
Since 2017, films have been screened in the amphitheater in seven-channel sound.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Dejiny Pezinka. Obzor. 1982. p. 159.
- ^ a b Global24 s.r.o (21 July 2017). "LETNÉ KINO: Premietanie pod hviezdami je v plnom prúde". Bratislava24.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 17 October 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Bittner, Petter; Boriš, Pavol (2001). Pezinok – bigbeatown. Renesans. ISBN 80-968427-2-2.
- ^ a b "O kine". Kino Pezinok. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.