We have 1 day to explore this amazing city. Today our tour was from 9-1 and it is 91 degree's and so so hot. Our tour took us over to one of Europe’s great cultural capitals. Over the last few decades, Budapest has re-emerged as one of the continent’s iconic cities, divided by the lilting Danube and connected by the graceful Chain Bridge.
We met our guide for a panoramic tour, beginning in modern Pest. Along the elegant Andrássy Avenue, the Champs-Élysées of Budapest, admire the Hungarian State Opera House. We stopped at Heroes’ Square, a wide-open plaza of monuments and statues commemorating the Magyar state. Across the river, we explored the more traditional Buda side of the city. Here we visited the Castle District with its massive hilltop castle complex, the turreted Fishermen’s Bastion and Matthias Church, named for the country’s most popular medieval king.
Ceramic roof very neat
Castle Hill
From the heights of Buda Hill, we enjoyed fantastic views of the famous Chain Bridge, the first span to ever connect the two halves of the city when it opened in 1849
View from the top and the Bridge
Looking at the Hungarian Paliament Building from Castle Hill
Cathedral and roof of it
I also collect these wine stoppers.
There was a place I wanted to visit as a memorial to the Jews of this city who were marched to the river bank and told to remove there shoes and then they were shot, chained together and pushed into the river during WW2. There used to be a very large Jewish population in Budapest but the was changed all that. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the river bank. It was both heartbreaking and beautiful as you might imagaine.
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that"s okay. The journey changes you, and it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully you leave something good behind. - Anthony Bourdain
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