Looking up towards Matthias Church, we drove the winding road up to the hill. The street is picturesque as we walked towards Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill.
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Sunday 24 September 2017
Shoes on the Danube
"The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, located across from the Hungarian Parliament buildings. It was created by Gyula Pauer to honour the people who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried aaa. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank." Wikipedia
"The Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial, designed by Imre Varga in 1991, stands over the mass graves of those murdered by the Nazis in 1944-45. On the leaves of the metal tree are inscribed the family names of some of the hundreds of thousands of victims. It is located near The Great Synagogue in Dohány Street (also known as Dohány Street Synagogue) is he largest Synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world, capable of accommodating 3,000 people." (We glimpsed this monument from our bus so I found these photos online.)
Gresham Palace
Completed in 1906, the Gresham Palace is an example of Art Nouveau architecture. It was originally an office and apartment building and is now the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest Gresham Palace.
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