Budapest 2: Architecture [Sky Watch Friday]

Following our lunch in the Great Market Hall, we were bussed to a location convenient to start an extensive walk through Pest. We began close to the Parliament building complex. Here are two images; at later dates, I will post more, including shots taken at night.

We passed various government and public buildings, such as the Museum of Ethnography [image below]. One still had memorial signs of the 1956 Revolution; e.g. our tour guide assistant, Micha, stands examining filled-in bullet holes in the museum facade.

 A lesson we learned in Vienna was to look up, because buildings often exhibited ornate decoration well above ground level. This proved to be true in Budapest as well.

Eventually, we reached St. Stephen’s Basilica, where, later in the week, my wife and I would attend an evening brass ensemble and organ concert.

We headed back towards our hotel because we would pass the Great Synagogue, also referred to as the Dohány Synagogue [the street on which it is located]; it is the largest synagogue in Europe. Note the two Moorish-like minarets, each with a 'onion dome'. I will show more images in later posts because we returned two more times to see the interior, as well as the museum.