A visit to Hungary and its beautiful historic capital, Budapest
In Budapest there are sad memories of the communist regime and the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its violent repression that took away 200,000 Hungarians abroad.
I refused to visit the house of terror being sad Andryas is now the most visited museum in the city because I do not like confrontation with the sorrows of the past and I know that in that awful place first and then the Communists, the Nazis tortured and imprisoned in heavily a lot of Hungarians.
I went to visit the other hand, in the suburbs Memento Park where several statues were brought unseat the Communist regime, statues of communist leaders like Lenin and Stalin and local leaders, partisans, Hungarian workers and soldiers of the Russian liberators.
Going back to the good things I would like to speak again of the baths of Budapest. There are two very beautiful and historic, the Szechenyi ... which is located in the northern part of the town square in front of the gigantic hero, built to celebrate the 1,000 anniversary of the arrival of the Magyar people (party from the Urals) in Hungary is now reduced to one third of its original territory, since the remaining two thirds belong to Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Croatia, especially Bratislava, Varazdin, Novi Sad, Cluj Napoca and many other cities, mostly Hungarians.
Hungary lost both world wars, and consequently much of its original territory now restricted to the capital Budapest, Lake Balaton and two other medium-sized cities as Pecs and Szeged .... while the rest are just small towns in Hungary pusta.
Budapest is a city for more than two million inhabitants and thirty districts crossed by three lines of which the first subway was built around 1850, first in Europe! There is also an extensive network of trams that connect the various parts of the capital with an efficient transport network that allowed me to visit many places with a three day pass bought twice for the modest sum of around 13 euros.
Budapest is actually composed of two cities faced. Buda is home to the long hill to the castle and two other hills, which houses the luxurious Gellert and the Gellert thermal baths and another that houses the statue of liberty, a woman who claims a leaf horizontal and the Citadel, an ancient fort never used and Malastrana district under the castle, but also other hills that are home to an old railroad residential with a small train that runs through town and leads to a lookout tower to another train and administered by the young pioneers of 10-14 years and leading into a nearby forest.
Instead Pest on the other side is much bigger and important, and hosts the largest historic district.
The castle is a tower that now houses the National Gallery that I have visited, limiting myself to photograph it from the outside, to notice the statue of the great military leader Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Roman ruins of Acquinqum, the beautiful Gothic church of St. Matthias the roof color and the statue of St. Stephen, the first Hungarian king overlooking the elegant neo-Gothic and white bastions from which you can enjoy the beautiful panorama of the city with the Danube in its length crossed by several bridges of which the most famous is the one with iron chains usually made out to the Szechenyi, a historical character and political stature, they are also dedicated to the largest and most spectacular spa with a huge outdoor swimming pool with hot thermal water swimming pools and two other even hotter at the ends where the local and tourists are soaking. In the basement there are saunas that I have not visited because too busy to freshen up and go for long swims.
The Gellert is a large luxury hotel with adjacent spa facility, outdoor swimming pool as small as the Széchenyi, but also includes a beautiful indoor pool that looks like a greek temple. Then there is a large water basin with a turkish hamam and high dome that filters out weak colored lights from the cracks in the roof while the swimmers are divided between relaxing soak in the warm waters alternating visits to the hot sauna, a clothing that hides BEDDING genitals but that leaves uncovered buttocks.
When you sit down to go around the BEDDING hygienic protection to the rear and you will discover the genitals with funny effect. Tuesday is dedicated to women, while other days the men, except in the evening and night when the visit is allowed to both sexes.
Starting off from Andrassy Avenue is the hero comes to the vast square was built to celebrate 1,000 years of the conquest in 1896 the Hungarian Magyar plateau, starting from the Urals.
There is a tall column, a grave and important a circular colonnade that houses the statues and bas-reliefs of the most important Hungarian kings who are also at the base of the column.
On either side of the square two major museums, a reservoir in the restoration, the Széchenyi Baths, the zoo and a complex of churches, museums and the castle Vajdahunyad the edges of the city park.
But Budapest is not only spas, there are so many beautiful buildings, squares, parks, churches and museums. In particular, the huge square in front of the hero next to a huge artificial lake being restored, you can admire a spectacular complex consists of a church, a great museum that looks like a castle called Vajdahunjad.
In Budapest I stayed in a nice hostel near the central bridge, Elizabeth, the white one that leads to the castle in Buda.
Budapest is a city for more than two million inhabitants and thirty districts crossed by three lines of which the first subway was built around 1850, first in Europe! There is also an extensive network of trams that connect the various parts of the capital with an efficient transport network that allowed me to visit many places with a three day pass bought twice for the modest sum of around 13 euros.
Budapest is actually composed of two cities faced. Buda is home to the long hill to the castle and two other hills, which houses the luxurious Gellert and the Gellert thermal baths and another that houses the statue of liberty, a woman who claims a leaf horizontal and the Citadel, an ancient fort never used and Malastrana district under the castle, but also other hills that are home to an old railroad residential with a small train that runs through town and leads to a lookout tower to another train and administered by the young pioneers of 10-14 years and leading into a nearby forest.
Instead Pest on the other side is much bigger and important, and hosts the largest historic district.
Near the Astoria metro station, the shopping street Vaci utca, which is home to shops, bars and restaurants and night become a meeting place for men looking for excitement .... Sex circulating as there are local prostitutes and strip tease and nightclubs.
In the middle of the Danube, Margaret Island is the large 2.5 km long, which houses the famous Sziget Festival in summer attracts thousands of young people coming from all over Europe.
In the past, an island was infested with mice and during the Turkish occupation it became the seat of the harem and then a recreational area.
There are many buildings from the institutional structures such as the elegant and impressive Parliament Palace which is located along the Danube for its gothic architecture reminiscent of the British Parliament or the Cathedral of Milan. Just behind the beautiful palace of the Ethnographic Museum and close to other ministerial palaces, the beautiful basilica of St. Stephen and the long Andrassy Avenue.