The Rough Guide to Budapest is the ultimate guide to this fascinating city. The 20-page, full-colour section will inspire you on where to go and what to see, from the magnificent Parliament building to the atmospheric Jewish quarter. In addition, there are two, new, 4-page inserts: ‘Budapest’s Baths’ and ‘Musical Traditions.’ The new ‘author picks’ section of all the city’s finest hotels and restaurants, will help you decide on the best places to stay, eat and drink, for all budgets. There is extensive coverage of major new museums and attractions, including the Natural History Museum, the Palace of Arts complex and the Holocaust Memorial Centre. The guide also includes details on excursions to nearby Szentendre and Esxtergom and comes complete with detailed maps for the entire city.

The Rough Guide to Budapest (Rough Guides)

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Richardson, Dan

Hebbert, Charles

Europe

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The Rough Guide to Budapest is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating city with clear maps of Budapest and detailed coverage of all the best Budapest attractions. Discover Budapest’s highlights; with stunning photography and detailed coverage on everything from Budapest’s magnificent Art Nouveau treasures and thermal baths to world-class concerts and festivals. Find detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Budapest whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of Budapest’s best hotels, Budapest’s best bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. The guide has all the information you need to get there, whilst clear Budapest maps will help you travel around with ease and ensure you don’t miss the unmissable. You’ll find expert background on everything from Buda Palace Museums to thermal bath etiquette and full accounts of Budapest’s top rated attractions.Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Budapest

The Rough Guide to Budapest 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

ROUGH GUIDES

This is an updated guide to post-communist Hungary. It includes coverage of Budapest, with details on a diverse range of activities from coffee houses to Turkish baths and the city's nightlife. Accounts of the country's sights are included - the wine-producing towns and highland forests of the Northern Uplands, the historic ruins of the Danube Bend, and the lively resorts of Lake Balaton. Reviews of hotels, lodgings, and restaurants, in all price categories are provided, as well as advice with the language. Boxed features give insights into subjects such as "puszta" wildlife, Gypsy funerals and the "Blood Countess of Transylvania".

Hungary: The Rough Guide, Third Edition

INTRODUCTION Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of eleven million people differs from "all those Slavs". Hungary was likened by the poet Ady to a "river ferry, continually travelling between East and West, with always the sensation of not going anywhere but of being on the way back from the other bank"; and its people identify strongly with the West while at the same time displaying a fierce pride in themselves as Magyars - a race that transplanted itself from Central Asia into the heart of Europe. Any contradiction between nationalism and cosmopolitanism is resolved by what the Scottish expatriate Charlie Coutts called the Hungarian "genius for not taking things to their logical conclusion". Having embarked on reforming state socialism long before Gorbachev, Hungary made the transition to multi-party democracy without a shot being fired, while the removal of the iron curtain along its border set in motion the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The end of communism has hastened the spread of glossy western capitalism, and on arrival in Budapest your first impressions will be of a fast-developing and prosperous nation. However, there is another side to post-communist Hungary, and beyond the capital and Lake Balaton living standards have fallen sharply amongst many people, for whom the transition to democracy has brought very mixed blessings indeed. Hungary's capital, Budapest, inspires a feeling of déjà vu. It's not just the vast Gothic parliament and other monuments of a bygone imperial era that seem familiar, but the latest fashions on the streets, or a poster advertising something that was all the rage back home a year before. In coffee houses, Turkish baths, and the fad for Habsburg bric-a-brac, there's a strong whiff of Mitteleuropa - that ambient culture that welcomed Beethoven in Budapest and Hungarian-born Liszt in Vienna. Meanwhile a wave of new clubs and restaurants and a burgeoning sex industry reflects the advent of nouveau riche entrepreneurs, and a massive influx of tourists and foreign investment. After Budapest, Lake Balaton and the Danube Bend vie for popularity. The Balaton, with its string of brash resorts, styles itself as the "Nation's Playground," and enjoys a fortuitous proximity to the Badacsony wine-producing region. The Danube Bend has more to offer in terms of scenery and historic architecture, as do the Northern Uplands and Transdanubia. The beautiful old parts of Sopron, Gyor and Pecs are, rightfully, the main attractions in Transdanubia, though for castle enthusiasts the Zempleni range and the lowlands of southern Transdanubia also have several treats in store; while in the Uplands the famous wine centres of Tokaj and Eger are the chief draw. On the Great Plain Szeged hosts a major festival, and its rival city, Debrecen, serves as the jumping-off point for the archaic Erd,hat region and the mirage-haunted Hortobagy puszta. See the chapter introductions for more details about each region.

The Rough Guide to Hungary (4th Edition)

INTRODUCTION 
Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of just over ten million people differs from "all those Slavs". Hungary was likened by the poet Ady to a "river ferry, continually travelling between East and West, with always the sensation of not going anywhere but of being on the way back from the other bank"; and its people identify strongly with the West while at the same time displaying a fierce pride in themselves as Magyars – a race that transplanted itself from Central Asia into the heart of Europe. 
Any contradiction between nationalism and cosmopolitanism is resolved by what the Scottish expatriate Charlie Coutts called the Hungarian "genius for not taking things to their logical conclusion". Having embarked on reforming state socialism long before Gorbachev, Hungary made the transition to multi-party democracy without a shot being fired, while the removal of the iron curtain along its border set in motion the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The end of Communism has hastened the spread of glossy western capitalism, and on arrival in Budapest your first impressions will be of a fast-developing and prosperous nation. However, there is another side to post-Communist Hungary, and beyond the capital and Lake Balaton living standards have fallen sharply amongst many people, for whom the transition to democracy has brought very mixed blessings indeed.

The Rough Guide to Hungary

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