Amphitheater Pezinok

Entertainment venue in Pezinok, Slovakia

Amphitheater PezinokAmfiteáter 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 / 48.296077; 17.267239
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

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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

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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

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1. ^ Dejiny Pezinka. Obzor. 1982. p. 159.
2. ^ 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)
3. ^ a b Bittner, Petter; Boriš, Pavol (2001). Pezinok – bigbeatown. Renesans. ISBN 80-968427-2-2.
4. ^ a b "O kine". Kino Pezinok. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.