Tag: Hungary
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Style Moment | Art Gallery, Budapest
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Belorussian-French artist
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COOL HOTELS | Budapest | Hotel Palazzo Zichy
I have learned that a hotel can set the whole mood for the experience in a foreign city. Hotel Palazzo Zichy, in Budapest, is a perfect example of a “great experience” hotel. The 19th century building was the former home of Hungarian noble, Count Nándor Zichy. In the brief biography on the hotel’s website was…
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FLEA MARKETS | Budapest | Petőfi Csarnok
If there’s a flea market in a city, I’m there. On Saturdays in Budapest, the Petőfi Csarnok in City Park fills up with vendors selling everything from bric a brac to shampoo, with some antiques thrown into the mix. It’s a colorful mix of merchandise…and characters.
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Eye on Design | Budapest | Műcsarnok Kunsthalle
From the outside, the building on Budapest’s Heroes’ Square looks like a big old traditional art museum. Don’t be fooled.
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Style Moment | Budapest train station
“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.” André Kertész (1894-1985) Hungarian-born photographer
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Budapest | Healing Waters
People travel for miles across Europe to partake in Budapest’s thermal waters. The locals all recommended the Széchenyi Bath & Spa, in City Park, so that’s where I headed.
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Budapest | The Pest Side
Pest (pronounced “pesht”) is the nerve center of Budapest. It is both contemporary and old world at the same time. There are many curiosities about this unique city…trams that go both ways on the same track, currency with an exchange rate of 183.84 to the dollar (figure THAT out when you’re debating a purchase), words…
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Budapest | The Buda Side
The golden age of Buda castle was in the Renaissance, during the reign of King Matthias. Today it is a tourist destination…a chance to wander the cobblestone lanes of Budapest history, and to look over the Danube River to the stunning view of Pest.
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Buda + Pest = Budapest
Budapest is an enigma. It’s a city rich with architectural history, but still emerging from its communist past…so it feels like it’s a work in progress.
