Budapest Skyline and Chain Bridge over the river Danube, Budapest, Hungary
by Neale And Judith Clark
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Budapest Skyline and Chain Bridge over the river Danube, Budapest, Hungary
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Budapest Skyline - Hungarian Parliament building with the Chain Bridge or Szechenyi Lanchid over the River Danube Budapest, Hungary EU Europe
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Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary.The central area of Budapest along the Danube River is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has several notable monuments, including the Hungarian Parliament and the Buda Castle.[39] The city also has around 80 geothermal springs, the largest thermal water cave system,second largest synagogue, and third largest Parliament building in the world
The previously separate towns of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were in 1873 officially unified and given the new name Budapest. Before this, the towns together had sometimes been referred to colloquially as "Pest-Buda". Pest has also been sometimes used colloquially as a shortened name for Budapest
The wide Danube was always fordable at this point because of a small number of islands in the middle of the river. The city has marked topographical contrasts: Buda is built on the higher river terraces and hills of the western side, while the considerably larger Pest spreads out on a flat and featureless sand plain on the river's opposite bank. Pest's terrain rises with a slight eastward gradient, so the easternmost parts of the city lie at the same altitude as Buda's smallest hills, notably Gellért Hill and Castle Hill.
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Széchenyi lánchíd, is a chain bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Designed by English engineer William Tierney Clark and built by Scottish engineer Adam Clark, it was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Hungary. It was opened in 1849. It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to Széchenyi (formerly Roosevelt) Square, adjacent to the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and on the Buda side to Adam Clark Square, near the Zero Kilometre Stone and the lower end of the Castle Hill Funicular, leading to Buda Castle.
The Danube is Europe's second-longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe. In Latin, the Danube was variously known as Danubius, Danuvius or as Ister.
Classified as an international waterway, it originates in the town of Donaueschingen, in the Black Forest of Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg. The Danube then flows southeast for about 2,730 km (1,700 mi), passing through four capital cities (Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade) before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine. This section of the river is also called Danube Bend.
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January 15th, 2020
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