While being driven through the late night lit up streets of the city the above thoughts went through my mind, the buildings solid and heavy, the serious looking people, the streets wide and straight, it all gave the impression of things being grounded. Solid.
I loved it straight away and my extended walk around the old town of Pest did not disappoint the next day. I immediately noticed that even though the buildings appeared ‘heavy’ they were far from it. A variety of architectural styles; neo-classical, neo-renaissance, neo-baroque, and art nouveau. Many beautiful buildings to be seen. I visited the St. Stefan Basilica first, all around it there were Christmas market stalls, the ambience was very pleasant. The basilica was impressive, the lightning gave just the right feel for the beautiful arches, capitals, the cupola, and other features, I took quite a few photos. When leaving, as I walked down the steps the bells rang out over the town, a sound that I truly love and enjoyed.
I wandered around part of the old town, looking up more than down and was amazed and delighted to see the ornate windows everywhere, again I tried to document some of these features as I’m quite fascinated by them.
This was only a three day visit to Budapest, we did not get to see the other part of the city which is called Buda and is across the river Danube. But we will return in May next year, looking forward to see and find out more.
As for the people, lovely and very polite, but more about that in another blog. And plenty more photos too. I’ve sure come away with nice memories.
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I love tours, especially of places I probably will never go to. The Basilica is certainly a beautiful building.
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Thanks for commenting, lovely to hear other people’s views on this.
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Very nice pictures.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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It’s really a lovely city, I was there 20ish years ago. Spoke not more than two words of Hungarian or Russian and managed to get about fine, a miracle. The yellow building with the odd cupola looks familiar but I can’t place it? I hope to go back one day, my mothers side of the family is Hungarian. We talk with our hands a lot, I think a national characteristic…
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If I know which building you mean, the one on the top of my page, then that is the synagogue Daphne, a beautiful building but I did not go inside yet, that will be for next visit.
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Lovely that you are connected to your roots. There is much that fascinates me about Hungary, the traditional folk dress and music for one, and much more, will explore more about it. 🙂
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I love that you noticed the windows. I think sometimes they provide insight into how a culture views itself and the world at a point in time.
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Yes I agree Jan, a great insight, thank you. It makes a lot of difference in a building, but like you say, it says something about those that designed the buildings way back in time.
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Enjoy the rest of your travels.
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Thank you Jan 🙂
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this must be a very interesting city with a lot of history, Agnes. Wonderful photos. Wishing you a good time, kind regards Mitza
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Thank you Mitza, yes a beautiful and interesting city, want to explore it further. 🙂
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have fun
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It looks beautiful.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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Thank you David, and thank you for following my blog, yes Budapest seems to be a beautiful city, I want to explore it more. 🙂
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