More about Budapest Budapest has a long history starting as a Celtic settlement in the first century AD, followed by wars, sieges, resettlements, revolts as well as Ottoman and Soviet occupations. In the 1800 Budapest comprised of 2 cities: Buda (German word: ‘ofen’ meaning oven) on the east bank of the Danube river, woody and built on a hill. Pest, also German meaning ‘furnace ’was developed on the western bank - flat and spread out. In 1873 the twin cities united to become Budapest, beautiful capital city of Hungary. |
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were fortunate to find a place to park in the city center in front of the beautiful Academy of Science building. Sammie was bundled into his sleeping bag, because we were not sure whether we could take him with and it was also extremely cold. |