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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... seen . Its heyday was in the inter - war period , the atmosphere of which was captured by the writer Sándor Márai in an article published in 1935. “ What is the Danube promenade ? " he asks . Let's say that it is a dozen cafés with ...
... seen before , not even the artist himself . In 1904 , four years after Munkácsy's burial ceremony , the bier of Károly Lotz also started its last journey from the steps of the Hall of Arts . Lotz was Hungary's most noted fresco painter ...
... seen in modern - day Hungary . His ensemble of buildings in the central square of the Wekerle Estate survives as an example of garden - city type development constructed between 1908 and 1925 in Kispest , a district to the south - east ...
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By the Danube | 1 |
Avenue of Dreams | 29 |
City of Cafés | 61 |
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