On the Wednesday edition of Slovakia today we start the series dedicated to the mills as technical monuments. In the first part we visit the valley named after the several mills that used to be located there. The valley once was in the outskirts of Bratislava, now it is in its wider centre. On the outskirts of todays Slovak capital lies also a small manor house, or a chateux, where the then retired US president Theodore Roosevelt paid a visit to his good friend count Albert Apponyi.