Budapest A Cultural History

Name: Budapest A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780195314946

ISBN-10: 0195314948

ISBN-13: 9780195314946

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bob Dent

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The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with its mixture of late nineteenth-century Historicist and early twentieth-century Art Nouveau architecture, is still very much a "turn-of-the-century" city. For more than fifty years prior to the Second World War, Budapest was one of the outstanding cultural capitals of Central Europe, on a par with, and in some ways ahead of, Vienna and Prague. Now no longer "hidden" behind the Iron Curtain, much of that old atmosphere has returned. With its…

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List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English




By the Danube



Avenue of Dreams



City of Cafes



Heroes and Others



Hearts and Minds



City of Baths



Written in Stone



From Markets to Menus



Music Fusion



Jews and Gentiles



Above the City



And BelowFurther Reading (xx)