The more easterly - situated Laurinská is busier with more shops and luxurious hoses. Panská (or Lordly) street is what its name suggests, as ther eare many city palaces, which used to belong to the nobility and rich burgers.

Panská ulica street starts at the former Vydrická brána gate and ends at the crossroadswith Rybárska brána. The Neo Classical Csáky Palace stands at the point, where Panská ulica street opens to the rectanguralcarea of Rudnay`s square. The domestic builder Matúš Walch built it for Count Juraj Csáky in 1775. The Keglevich Palace stands on the corner of Panská and Strakova street. Side by side the proud Erdődy Palace it looks like a country mansion of some yeoman from the north of Slovakia. The short facade of the single floor house compensated by the tall red roof typical of old village mansions causes this rustic impression. The Baroque palace originated by rebuilding an older burgher house.

The Pálffy Palace at Panská No. 19-21 revealed some pleasant  surprises to the historians and archaeologists in recent years. The oldest written documents relating to this palace on toda`s Panská street are from 1415 to 1516. The Pálffy family bought the house in 1715. Count Pálffy was later nominated palatine and state judge. He paid thirty thousand guldens for the house. In the first half of the 19th century the Pálffys unified the original building in the Neo Classical style with the facade preserved up to now. In 1885 the rear parts of the palace were pulled down and a new palace was build facing the Promenade. Extensive reconstruction of the interior of the palace carried out in the 1980`s adjusted the palace for the purpose of Art Gallery of the city Bratislava.

A defensive tower occupied the site of house No. 17, now used by the British Council, in the 13th century. The Gothic house from the 15th century belonged to palatine Rozgoň, the protagonist of the civil war between the Castle and the town. The owner of the house alternated until the Pauline monks from Marianka bought it. The Paulines wore typical white gowns and that is why the house was called The House of the White Monks. In the second half of the 17th century the Paulines changed the back part of the house into a chapel of the Most Holy Trinity. The later owners of the house pulled down the chapel of which only the Early Baroque portal with the year 1671 carved in it has survived.

Let us go back  to the southern part of Panská. In its middle there are two palaces. It is good they are standing side by side because we can compare the heavy, majestic Baroque building with the light and graceful Rococo house. Esterházy Palace (No.13) on the left was built in 1743 for Count Ján Esterházy, a member of one of the richest noble families in Hungary. The palace was one of the most luxurious in the city, though its exterior does not confirm it. The Rococo Balassa Palace standing on the right (No.15) is quite different from its neighbour. The three-stories house is lower, less massive and the ornamentation of the facade is considerably finer and more elaborate. The Rococo sculptured ornamentation of the facade is full of symbols and allegories of the Classical deities.

The crossroads of Rybárska brána, Panská and Laurinská street is certainly the liveliest spot of the city. People like to stop here to listen to the street musicians and the tourists love to have a snap made wit Čumil in background. Rybárska brána street is a short street in the historic centre of Bratislava and part of the already mentioned Corso. It is a pedestrian zone between Hlavné námestie and Hviezdoslavovo námestie squares.

Next to house No. 1 stands a life-size statue with a top hat in his hand and a welcoming gesture. In contrast to the statue of Čumil thi one painted in gleaming silver paint represents a real person, a native of Bratislava nicknamed Schőner Náci (Fair Náci). His real name was Ignác Lamar, and he was born on August 12th, 1897 into the family of a shoemaker in Petržalka. Schőner Náci frequented Bratislava`s pubs and coffee houses and became an insperable part of the city`s folklore.

Laurinská ulica street is the prolongation of Panská. It starts at Rybárska brána and ends in Štúrova. The first (No.1) in the northern row of houses on Laurinská is a four-stories house with a Neo Classical facade. It was built after design of Ignác Feigler Senior in 1846. First of all it was the seat of the First Pressburg Saving Bank founded in 1842 as the oldest bank institution in the city. Opposite the First Pressburg Savings Bank is a modern corner building, the House of the Slovak Writers. There is a bookshop in its ground floor. On the corner of Laurinská and Radničná the Neo Classical house of Baron Walterskirchen (No. 3) was built in the 19th century. At the eastern end of Laurinská street stands the theatre building of Divadlo P. O. Hviezdoslava. A copy of bars hangs across the street and above the heads of passers by just to remind us that it is the place where Laurinská brána gate used to stand. The first reference to the gate is from 1412, and it even quotes the salary of the gatekeeper. Laurinská brána was pulled down in 1778.