Slovakia exited the former Czechoslovakia in 1993, and Bratislava was declared its capital. The first offices were in a small suite of rooms in the centre of the city. A few years later, an imposing, central, self-contained four-storey office building at Panska 16 was bought from an an Austrian entrepreneur, and a detached residence with grounds was bought at Pazickeho 6, a prominent location overlooking the city and close to the Slavin War Memorial.