If you are here in Budapest, one of the must see is the Buda Castle which was built on the southern tip of Castle Hill. It is next to the old Castle District (Hun: Várnegyed), which is famous for its medieval, Baroque and 19th century houses and public buildings. This special lady statue sits right at a corner of the building.
You can find it at: 1014 Budapest, District I, Szentháromság tér
Zichy Nándor (1829-1911) Hungarian aristocrat, politician. His statue is in the VIIIth district of Budapest at the Lőrincz Pap square. The statue was made by Antal Orbán in 1930.
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews, saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives.
His death has long been a source of dispute with the former Soviet Union denying knowledge of Wallenberg’s fate. On January 17, 1945, he was arrested in Budapest by the Soviets after they wrested control of the city from the Germans, and was reported to have died in March. In 1957, the Soviets claimed that Wallenberg had actually died of a heart attack in 1947 at the age of 35. There had been reports, however, from prisoners in the same facility, that he was seen alive long past 1947. In 1991, Vyacheslav Nikonov was assigned by the Russian government to find out the truth; he concluded that Wallenberg did indeed die in 1947, executed while a prisoner at Lubyanka. (source: wikipedia)
The statue is in the IInd district of Budapest.
Bálint Balassi baron of Kékkő and Gyarmat, (20 October 1554, Zólyom – 30 May 1594, Esztergom), was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet, who wrote mostly in Hungarian, but also in Turkish. He is the founder of modern Hungarian lyric poetry.
I’ve blogged about the umbrella ladies before. It was a very foggy time when I first been to the Obuda.
It is the 3rd district in Budapest and if you were to compare, you’ll notice the flowers are different as compared to the previous. I love the mood of this place! Especially now that it’s Autumn…
The statue of Marco d’ Aviano is in the Fő utca (Ist district of Budapest). The artwork was made by Győrfi Sándor. You can read more about Marco d’Aviano on BudapestZin.
Mikszáth Kálmán (1824-1910) Hungarian writer, journalist and politician.
Mikszáth was born in Szklabonya into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied Law at the University of Budapest from 1866 to 1869, although he did not apply for any exam, and became involved in journalism, writing for many Hungarian newspapers including the Pesti Hírlap.
His early short stories were based on the lives of peasants and artisans, and had little appeal. However, they demonstrated his skill in crafting humorous anecdotes, which would be developed in his later, more popular works. Many of his novels contained social commentary and satire, and towards the end of his life they became increasingly critical of the aristocracy and the burden he believed the latter placed on Hungarian society.
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his novel, St. Peter’s Umbrella so much that he visited Mikszáth during his European trip in 1910 solely to express his admiration.
Mikszáth was a member of the Liberal Party, and in 1887 was elected to the National Assembly of Hungary (one of the two top legislatures in Austria-Hungary). Until 1879 he was the representative for the Illyefalva District in Transylvania, and from 1892 until his death he represented the Fogaras District.
He was buried in Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.
(source: wikipedia)
Again a little piece of those 1000 details you can explore in Budapest.
No, its not a pyramid. Just the top of a chapel at the Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest. The statues there are so secretive to me.
The Theme Day in the City Daily Photo family is about shadows for this month. This photo was taken at the Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest.
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Ignác Alpár began his career as a stonemason, then worked under architect Alajos Hauszmann. After completing formal studies in Berlin, he returned to Budapest to work under Imre Steindl and Hauszmann again. He began independent practice in 1890, working mainly on public projects in a historicist, eclectic style. The most well known of these is the so-called Vajdahunyad Castle built for the millenary celebrations in 1896, which incorporated architectural styles practised in Hungary from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period.