Budapest - Joe Hajdu

A history of Grandeur and Catastrophe
Publ.: Austin Macauley, 2015
220 pages

Budapest today is a palimsest of its history and crystallized present.
Castle Hill of Buda was the seat of Hungarian royal power.
This peaked in the glory years of King Matthias reign in the 2nd half of the15th Century, when Buda was one of the largest and wealthiest cities of Europe.
Pest, on the opposite vanks of the Danube, is a symbol of the grandeur of the late 19th Century metropolis
Richly illustrated

Zie ook:
The Book of Hungarikums