Budapest

June 25, 2019
001 - IMG_4806 Back to Budapest for an overnight stay before returning home the next morning. Last time we visited Budapest was back in 2011...
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002 - IMG_4807 Széchenyi Chain Bridge, a wrought iron and stone suspension bridge built in 1840, the first permanent bridge connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube opened...
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003 - IMG_4808 Buda Castle houses History Museum, National Gallery and the National Szechenyi Library.
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004 - IMG_4810 Hungarian Parliament Building, also known as the Parliament of Budapest
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005 - IMG_4811 St stephen's Basilica - named in honor of St Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungrary (975-1038) and patron saint of the Basilica.
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006 - IMG_4812 Buda - Pest: Pest is the eastern, mostly flat part of the Budapest. Pest is known for being where all of the action hapens, the place to be touristy, hang out...
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009 - P1190080 Budapest Vigadó Concert Hall, at the lower left with tall arch shapes windows.
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010 - P1190081 The Citadella is the fortification or fortress located upon the top of Gellért Hill in Buda of Budaapest.
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045 - IMG_4874 The fortress was built in 1851 by Julius Jacob von Haynau, a commander of the Austrian Empire, and was designed by Emmanuel Zitta and Ferenc Kasselik, after the...
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046 - IMG_4877 The Citadella occupies almost the entire 235 metres high plateau. The fortress is a U-shaped structure built about a central courtyard, being 220 metres long,...
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047 - IMG_4883 The fortress was actually built by Hungarian forced labourers, it was finished in 1854. In June 1854 Austrian troops settled in the citadel.
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048 - IMG_4884 After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and the establishment of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarians demanded the destruction of the Citadel, but the garrison...
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011 - P1190082 It was not until late 1899 when the city took possession of the Citadel. A few months later, in 1900, the walls were demolished.
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016 - IMG_4831 In the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Soviet troops occupied the Citadella and fired down into the city during the assault that overthrew the Nagy-led Hungarian...
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017 - IMG_4832 Next to the Danube-facing longitudinal wall of the Citadella, there is an open-air display of a small collection of Red Army weaponry, most of them from the...
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015 - IMG_4830 The fortress had a complement of sixty cannons.
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018 - P1190088 Budapest Liberation Monument, also known as Statue of Libery, Gellert Hill; erected in 1947 in remembrance of what was then referred to as the Soviet liberation...
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042 - IMG_4863 The 14 m tall bronze statue stands atop a 26 m pedestal and holds a palm leaf. Two smaller statues are also present around the base.
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