Architecture
in Budapest
By Carla Gago Castro, 4th year ESO.
Where does the beauty of a
city reside? In its history? In its people? These are two valid
answers but where you can perceive its beauty the most is in its
architecture, and the city of Budapest dominates this matter.
Statues
decorating the Opera House.
Thonet
House, Art Noveau masterpiece.
As you can see in these
photos, Budapest has a large repertoire of architectural finest. If
you take a walk along Vaci Utca, today a pedestrian street, you'll
notice how Art Noveau master pieces like Thonet House built by Ödön
Lechner in 1890, blend with the modern glass facades which exhibit
the clothes of fashionable shopping firms, or with other beautiful
examples of buildings dating back to the end of the 19th century,
which combine timber decoration and sculptures. But even if it is such
perfection, we have not yet reached the best.
Statues
instead of simple columns in Andrassy Avenue.
One
of the most sought-after places in Budapest is the Széchenyi Baths.
A harmonious place for sight and body, which
both visitors and citizens enjoy in the summer and winter. Built in
Neo-baroque style, it was opened on 16th June 1913, with the name:
Széchenyi
spa (Széchenyi
gyógyfürdő). The
complex consists of 18 pools, of which 3 are outside the buildings
and 15 inside. Some components of the thermal waters are sulphate,
calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate and some fluoride and metaboric
acid.
My
favourite place is certainly Széchenyi Lánchíd, not only for being
the symbol of Budapest but also for having an indescribable beauty.
This
amazing bridge has linked the two parts of the city: Buda and Pest
since 1849. It was the first permanent bridge across the Danube.
Each
of
the city
districts
has
its own personality, as
for example:
Várkerület,
on the Buda side, is
monumental, with incredible views of the Parliament, Erzsébetváros
(the Jewish Quarter
with its beautiful
sunagogues), which
is rapidly changing, uses street art to decorate damaged or unpainted
walls, depicting, at
the same time, Jewish related symbols on the facade of many
buildings, Belváros-Lipótváros
and
Terézváros are
elegant and have many oustanding buildings... And all this blend
of styles in a
harmonious way: modern
with ancient, Turkish
with Gothic, Baroque
with Art Noveau, and so on, is what makes this city so unique.
All
in all Budapest is a really beautiful city and I would invite
everyone to go there.
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