Squares of Budapest

St. Stephen's Square

by Katarzyna Spyra, Daria Lach
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

     It’s easy to find the answer for the question: which square is the most important in Cracow? - as its name suggests: the Main Square. In Madrid the answer is more complicated. Writing the articles about the squares in Cracow and Madrid we took into account Plaza Mayor and Puerta del Sol you can read about it here:

Squares of Madrid and Cracow

During our journey to Romania we stopped in Budapest and decided to focus on the squares once again, we were wondering which square in Hungarian capital city is the most significant. But as in Madrid the answer turned out to be tricky. There are a few candidates for the title of the most crucial place in Budapest so it’s not easy to create the ranking. In the article we present you a few places, we have visited, and their different functions.

STREET ART SPREADS ITS WINGS

By several students at IES de Catabois.

Street art or the expression of artists on the walls of many European towns and cities today has provided them with a new image, as you can see in the photograph below. It is called Polish-Hungarian Friendship Tree and shows the close connection between the Polish and Hungarian cultures. There is a text on the mural which reads:
“Hungary and Poland are two forever-living oaks, which have their own trunks, but their roots are far beneath the earth: they have joined and invisibly merged. So the existence and strength of each one is tied to life and health of the other.” — Stanislaw Worcell

MASTER AT BLENDING STYLES: BUDAPEST

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. 

The Jewish heritage in Budapest and Cracow.

  By Lucía Loureiro Cela, 4th year ESO, IES de Catabois, Ferrol.

The Jewish heritage in Budapest:

The Jewish district of Budapest is exciting and tragic too. It has got the second biggest synagogue in the world but, as well, it was a guetto where the Nazis forced the Jews to live, in times of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The Jewish district is on the bank of the east bank of the Danube river.

Budapest: A purifying, old-time bath - smelling of "eggs”

 By: Pontus Elmrin, Vanessa Sidlo, Natalie Josefsson and Lisa Slottner

In the heart of Buda, the west end of Budapest, lies an old thermal bath from the 16th century. The Király thermal bath was built by the Turkish pasha Arslan, and has most of the old interior intact. It is open to both men and women, which means that the pools are not divided into different areas depending on sex.