Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest, Hungary
The winter of 1944-1945 was particularly bleak for the city’s Jewish population. 70,000 Jews were re-located to the Ghetto of Pest and 8,000 – 10,000 perished as the result of Eichmann’s grand “plan”. Over 2000 who died from cold and hunger are buried in the cemetery adjacent to Europe’s largest
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 1
The brainchild of Count István Széchenyi, a Hungarian hero. A veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Széchenyi was one of the key forces in transforming Budapest from a relative backwater to a modern hub of international trade and a center of national fervor (the Chain Bridge is officially named the “Széchenyi
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Galeotto Marzio, Matthias Fountain, Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary
Meet Galeotto Marzio da Narni, 15th century chronicler. Born in Italy, Marzio led a peripatetic life, studying medicine in Padua, becoming professor of poetry and rhetoric at Bologna, tutoring Pope Sixtus VI and washing up in Hungary as head of the royal library and general court flatterer in King Matthias’s
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Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary 1
High on the hill sits the lonely castle… No, that’s not quite right. Buda Castle has plenty of neighbors, though perhaps none so well-lit. The site is ancient even if the buildings are not. Buda Castle was annihilated in the Siege of Budapest and the “medieval” walls on show are
