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Hungary: Budapest

The Center of Hungarian culture

Budapest, second largest city on the Danube after Vienna, is the main stage for Hungarian commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, finance and entertainment.. In the time of the Austri-Hungarian Empire, both cities shared power as part of this empire.

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Andrassy Street

Checking in at the Hotel Andrassy, located on “Embassy row” near Heroes’ Square. A 19th-century railroad line running in a ditch down the center of this street became Europe’s oldest subway line after the London Underground when the ditch was roofed over in 1896.

A place for heroes

This square has been the venue for many important political events in Hungarian history. This colonnade has two upper statues representing Peace and Knowledge, then seven lower statues of national heroes.

An itinerant peddler sells her goods in the plaza
The Fine Art Museum
These illuminated signs tell which buses are coming to this stop next

Around town

The Liget Hotel is a Postmodernist work built in 1990.

Nearing the old Danube waterfront district, a district of pre-liberation builngs.
Away from the river on a major commercial street
This underground shopping arcade leads to the loal railway station
Rental bicycles
On Andrassy Street, the Embassy of Bulgaria
Neo-Baroque architecture
Downtown in the evening near the river
Looking toward the Elizabeth Bridge
Lunch at the Lechner Odön
Attending a musical performance of the State Opera, at which the harpsichord will be central instrument in this evening’s pieces
The performance is being televised. The boom camera allows a variety of different angles to be shot from the same location.
The center’s huge organ, not in use for this perfocrmance
Metro station for the arty Oktogon district
Keleti (“East”) Station, the terminal for trains extending through Hungry and into central Asia
Workmen renovate a classic building amid the downtown traffic
This building near the Danube once supplied the palace with drinking water. Today is has been remodeled into a restaurant and meeting hall called the Felix.
A tour boat on the Danube goes empty on this rainy day
On the Pest side of the bridge…
The old town gives way to a newly developed ‘international zone’ of high-end shopping and dining

A night cruise on the Danube

This great river connects many of the great cities of Europe on its way from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.

The CET Building is a shopping and commerce center on the downtown riverbank. The name stands for Central European Time, but is also the word for “whale.”
Above the illuminated Parliament building, the spotlights capture hundreds of birds
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