Budapest: A Cultural HistoryOxford University Press, 2007 - 237 páginas The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellért Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with its mixture of late nineteenth-century Historicist and early twentieth-century Art Nouveau architecture, is still very much a "turn-of-the-century" city. For more than fifty years prior to the Second World War, Budapest was one of the outstanding cultural capitals of Central Europe, on a par with, and in some ways ahead of, Vienna and Prague. Now no longer "hidden" behind the Iron Curtain, much of that old atmosphere has returned. With its rich and often turbulent history, its unique thermal baths, its excellent public transport system, its street cafés and broad-ranging cultural scene, Budapest is a captivating metropolis, currently being rediscovered as one of the liveliest cities in the region. * City on the Danube: Straddling the majestic river, Budapest's setting is unique; bridges and baths, cafes and squares; an architecture than recalls the pre-1914 era. * City of fusions: Bartók and Kodály fused folk and classical; the tradition continues with Budapest's vibrant mixture of live folk, gypsy, klezmer and jazz. * City of the unknown: Breaking through the barrier of the Hungarian language, often described as impenetrable, presented here are writers and poets deserving international recognition. |
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... former bourgeois and other “ undesirables ” . She returned to Budapest in 1953 and then lived a solitary and quiet life until 1956 , when , now in her mid - seventies , she took the opportunity to slip out of the city , head for the ...
... former Post Office Savings Bank , designed by Ödön Lechner and built in 1900. The building , with its colourful , extravagant shapes and floral ornamentation , almost defies categorization . Perhaps pure " Lechnerese " would be best ...
... ( former ) 147 Puppet Theatre 55 Ráday utca 72 Rákóczi statue 136 Rákóczi út 136 Royal Palace ( former ) 189-191 , 193-194 Rózsavölgyi Building 148 60 Andrássy út 52 , 186 Skating Rink 86 Sommossy Orfeum 59 Soviet Army Memorial 151 Stalin ...
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By the Danube | 1 |
Avenue of Dreams | 29 |
City of Cafés | 61 |
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