Balkans 2019 - Wednesday, June 12 - Budapest, Hungary


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IMG_1225 - Breakfast at the Corinthia Hotel
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IMG_1229 - Just to the left of this photo was the headquarters of the Secret Police until 1956, now the Museum of Terror.
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IMG_1231 - Heroes' Square (Hősök tere) depicts the 7 Magyar chieftains, celebrating the millennium of their founding of Hungary.
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IMG_1233 - Detail of the Millennium Memorial in Heroes' Square (Hősök tere), Budapest, Hungary
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IMG_1246 - The Budapest Eye, erected in 2017. At 65 m high, it is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe.
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IMG_1249 - The Budapest Metro with overheard electric wires. Its Line 1 was completed in 1896.
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IMG_1254 - The Dohány (Tobacco) Street Synagogue, built in 1854-9 near the Elizabeth Bridge, is the largest synagogue in Europe.
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IMG_1259 - Crossing the Elizabeth Bridge from the commercial Pest side to the hillier, greener, residential, Buda side
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IMG_1264 - The Rudas Thermal Bath at Gellért Hill, built by the Turks in 1566. Hot springs drew the Romans to Budapest.
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IMG_1268 - About 1885, development started on the west bank of the Danube with this Várkert Bazár, by architect Miklos Ybl.
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IMG_1269 - At the west end is this building, now a museum, with the exhibition "A New World Was Born, 1914-22".

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