Amphitheater Pezinok

Amphitheater Pezinok
Amfiteáter Pezinok
Amfík
	Projection area, stage and auditorium of the amphitheater in 2023
Address	Cajlanská 7; 902 01 Pezinok-Cajla; Slovakia
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.sk; kinopezinok.sk

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

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

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

^ 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.

[dejiny-1] Dejiny Pezinka. Obzor. 1982. p. 159.

[:1-2] 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)

[:0-3] Bittner, Petter; Boriš, Pavol (2001). Pezinok – bigbeatown. Renesans. ISBN 80-968427-2-2.

[kino-4] "O kine". Kino Pezinok. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

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