Budapest: A Cultural History
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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 Gell rt 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195314956
ISBN13:9780195314953
Release Date:April 2007
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:260 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Related Subjects
Austria Eastern Europe Historical Study & Educational Resources History Hungary Social HistoryCustomer Reviews
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Budapest, a cultural history
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
It is a brilliant guide to the sights and culture of the city on the Danube where I spent about half of my first 20 years. Dent introduces his readers to the complex history of the city with emphasis on the cast of its most important artists and cultural figures who created the atmosphere of Budapest.
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