Sitting high above the Danube River, on the Buda side of Budapest, sits the majestic Buda Castle. Lucky for me, the weekend I was in Budapest was also the weekend of the Budapest Wine Festival. Amazing wine plus breathtaking scenery equaled one amazing first experience in beautiful Budapest! Click on image to enlarge
Completed in 1902 in celebration of the 1,000th birthday of the Hungarian state, the Fisherman’s Bastion is one of the most visited sites in Budapest. With lookout towers, arched windows, and wide, sweeping staircases, the bastion was built to deliver a panoramic view of the Danube River and Pest side of the city. Click on […]
Of all the gorgeous buildings in beautiful Budapest, I found myself constantly drawn to the majestic Hungarian Parliament Building, perhaps because it is the largest and tallest building in Budapest. I was only able to experience it from the outside since all of the English tours were sold out on the Sunday that I had […]
Created by film director Can Togay and sculptor Gyula Pauer, the Shoes on the Danube memorial honors the Jews killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen during World War II. On January 8, 1945, the victims were pulled from a building on Vadasz Street rented by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in order to hide and protect them. […]
And with the Kansas City Royals’ World Series Victory Parade behind us, I return to my photos of Budapest from September. Hopefully I’ll be through them and the other recent photos before I travel again later this month… Budapest developed from two Bulgarian military frontier fortresses — Buda and Pest — situated on the two banks […]
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