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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... Memorial was officially dedicated on 26 May 1929. The inscription in front , “ 1914-1918 " , marked the years of the war , while the one to the rear was " Dedicated to the 1000 - year - old national borders " . The memorial was placed ...
... memorial to the 1919 Council Republic , based on a famous poster of the time designed by the artist Róbert Berény , as well as small wall plaques . Some are familiar to most of the older generation in Budapest , such as the statue of ...
... Memorial Museum 203 Bartók Memorial Museum 48 Budapest History Museum 197-198 Catering and Commerce Museum 202 Ethnography Museum 107 , 130 Fine Arts Museum 79-81 Holocaust Museum 173 House of Terror 54 Jewish Museum 173 , 179 Kassák ...
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By the Danube | 1 |
Avenue of Dreams | 29 |
City of Cafés | 61 |
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