I took this photo during the last weekend when we have celebrated 15th of March. The cyclist is a great contrast to the marshing soldiers:)
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Vörösmarty Mihály
Mihály Vörösmarty (December 1, 1800 – November 19, 1855), Hungarian poet. From 1830 to 1843 he devoted himself mainly to the drama, the best of his plays, perhaps, being Vérnász (Blood Wedding) (1833), which won the Academy’s 200-gulden prize. He also published several volumes of poetry, containing some of his best work. Szózat (Appeal, 1836), which became a national anthem.
News on my other blogs:
Impressions of Prague: 2008 Eurotrip Prague
Vigadó
The Vigadó (merry-making) is the premier venue for entertainment, built between 1859 and 1864. Designed by Frigyes Feszl it is a most outstanding work of Romanticism. Its murals and statuary decoration are also the achievements of the greatest masters of the era, Károly Lotz and Mór Than.
St. Gellért
Nearly 7 metre high bronze statue which looks across Pest from the side of Gellért Hill stands in the middle of a crescent-shaped arcade. The evangelist and bishop St Gerard is raising a cross towards the sky in his right hand while a Hungarian pagan warrior looks up at him from his feet. (source: Hungary starts here)
Hussars
The colourful military uniforms of hussars from 1700 onwards were inspired by Hungarian fashions of the prevailing day. Usually this uniform was comprised of a short jacket known as a dolman, or later a medium-length “attila” jacket, both with heavy horizontal gold braid on the breast, and yellow braided or gold Austrian knots (sújtás) on the sleeves; a matching pelisse (a short-waisted overjacket often worn slung over one shoulder); colored trousers, sometimes with yellow braided or gold Austrian knots at the front; a busby (kucsma) (a high fur hat with a cloth bag hanging from one side; although some regiments wore the shako (csákó) of various styles); and high riding boots. European (but not British) hussars traditionally wore long moustaches (but no beards) and long hair, with two plaits hanging in front of the ears as well as a larger queue at the back. They often retained the queue, which used to be common to all soldiers, after other regiments had dispensed with it and adopted short hair. (source: wikipedia)
Hussars played a main role in the 1848 Revolution in Hungary. Your can see more photos and read more about the revolution on Budapest Guide.
Rumbach Synagogue II
Its my second photo of the synagogue of the Rumbach Sebestyén street. Unfortunately I haven’t had my camera with me only my mobile phone…but even with this quality the character of the building is enjoyable. I hope…:)
Have a nice weekend!
Synagogue in the Rumbach street
This street is in the old Jewish quarter of Budapest. The synagogue is very close to the large, famous one in the Dohány street. But this one is out of work. At times they use it for making movies..but thats all. You can see more synagogues in Hungary here.
Fejo’s Budapest
This photo of Fejo has got 5 Budapest Award in my Flickr group. He obviously deserved it:) And for this occassion he is the next guest photographer of Budapest Daily Photo!
Previous guest photographers in 2008:
Blaisedeux’s Budapest, D.András’s Budapest, Natasha’s Budapest, SimonDKing’s Budapest, Gallmese’s Budapest
Király Baths
Looks like a Turkish building. Right? Because its a Turkish building:) The Király Baths. The construction of this Bath was begun by Arslan, the Pasha of Buda in 1565 and was completed by his successor, Sokoli Mustafa. The Király Thermal Bath had no direct hot water base, nor has it any today. The Turks built the Bath far from the springs to ensure the opportunity for bathing even in the case of an eventual siege, within the walls of the castle. Its water was supplied at that time, and is being supplied now, from the surroundings of the current Lukács Bath.
Drama
This photo is scary and amazing to me at the same time. Scary because of the dramatic deep colors and amazing because of the sharp contrasts. A sort of silhouette of Budapest.
Red and red
I finished my Basilica series but I still have some photos about its area. This square is right at the basilica, I was standing beside it…and I took this photo trying to catch the red motives on the ground and together with the roofs.:)