Beautiful Budapest the Capital of Hungary

The train station.

Looking at the Danube and city from the Citadel

Parliament

 

Looking up at the citadel and the statue
Lots of interesting looking buildings

On Castle Hill – A town exists up there with a church, hotels that look like they would be fun to stay at, a castle/palais, tunnels, and more!

They gave you lanterns to go through this labyrinth of tunnels and part of it is pitch black.  There were many diversions and so I was glad there was a nice Indian Family nearby that was talking or I might still be in there!!  Dracula was imprisoned here!  There were also torture chambers!  EEK.
Matthias Church on Castle Hill.  It was originally built in Romanesque Style in 1015, although the current building was constructed in the florid late gothic style in the 14th century and restored in the 19th century.  It was the second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom (Wikipedia)

fisherman’s bastions – is a terrace in neo-gothic and neo-romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle Hill.  Built between 1895 and 1902 (Wikipedia).  It does look fairytale like and the views ….

The views of the city and Danube River from that location

Other sights on Castle Hill

Buda tower

Castle Hill at night and views from there

Looking up at castle hill on my way back down

By the river now

Jewish Synagogue
St Stephen’s Basilica – a Roman Church named in honor of the first King of Hungary, Stephen (c.975-1038), whose supposed right hand is housed in the relinquary.  (I did not check on this)
Other sights

Budapest from the water

The Parliment

Budapest train station this morning, leaving for Salzburg Austria

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