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Middle-Eastern news portal praises the beauties of Budapest – photos
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The Middle East’s leading English-language news service, The National, wrote about how Buda, Pest, and Óbuda merged into one metropolis, and that the symbol of this unification is the building of the Parliament.
Budapest: things to see for every generation
The author, Ronan O’Connell, says that the Hungarian National Assembly was able to fuse all the competing ideas of artists into one glorious mess, which is very apt, though. He adds that when the cities of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda turned into Budapest, the Parliament Building became their heartbeat.
“With chandeliers the size of cars, more gold than a bank vault, stained glass window after stained glass window, and so many competing layers of design, my eyes are exhausted. Domes and spires and arches and columns and vaults and mirrors and statues and murals. While some buildings make a statement, this one makes many.”
The land of Budapest
was inhabited as early as 12,000 years ago,
and the Romans built the first town there 2,000 years ago, named Aquincum. Its remains can be visited even today. HERE is an article about what you can find there.
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BudapestHungaryBlog/photos
During the era of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom, Buda became one of the most important royal free cities while Pest became the gate of the trade between the Great Hungarian Plain and the Western, hilly part of the country. This was followed by periods of occupation, as it was subsumed first by the Ottoman Empire (1541-1686) and then the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, though, during their rule, Hungary could maintain some of its liberties. A major move back towards sovereignty was made in 1867 when it became part of the constitutional monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
That is the era when Budapest was finally born, when
in 1872, Buda, Pest, and Óbuda merged.
