Tag Archives: Budapest 1900

Buda? Pest? Which is best?

Posted on January 14, 2014 by David Brussat

Commenter Seth Johnson, a Cincinnati photographer whose fine work may be seen here, wonders which side of Budapest, which spans the Danube in Hungary, is better? Buda is old and Pest is … well, not as old, more populous, more … Continue reading →

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Lukacs on winter in Budapest

Posted on January 13, 2014 by David Brussat

I skip over a paragraph laden with dark history and continue with John Lukacs’s description of winter in the Budapest of 1900: And then, one morning – it would come as early as in the third week of November, and … Continue reading →

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