The convent complex of St. Ursula and its schools forms an enclosed block of buildings—a city within a city. You may try to walk all around it.
The sisters of St. Ursula arrived to the city of Bratislava in 1676. Soon they were entrusted with educating the local children. In 1731, the first school was founded on the location you are standing in front of. Newer buildings were added in 1895 and 1936. In 1950, the postwar Communist regime dissolved all religious orders and prohibited any Catholic education. Only after the fall of Communism could the nuns return and start reconstructing the ruined convent. Gradually, the St. Ursula schools were reopened in the 1990s.
Why would a Jewish girl, such as Gabriella, enter a Catholic convent?