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2008 conditions. Prior to 2010 Buda Castle was a cultural centre, involving museums, a theatre, the National Library and the National Gallery among others. This profile has changed after 2010, the Orbán government wants it to be a governmental district housing state offices and ministries. Even the outline of the area has changed a lot since then.
Late night shot across the Danube.
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Buda Castle
is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian kings in Budapest.
It was first completed in 1265, although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the site was built between 1749 and 1769.
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On a quiet and cold winter day at Buda, Illinois, a westbound Burlington Northern coal train whisks through the small town on a snowy February 17, 1990. Powering the empty train is EMD SD40-2 No. 7208 and two GE C30-7s.
Budapest, Hungary.
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BACALHOA BUDDHA EDEN.
Quinta dos Loridos.
(BOMBARRAL).
A menos de una hora en coche de Lisboa, se encuentra este curioso, aconsejable y sorprendente jardín único en toda Europa, que bien se merece una visita.
JOSÉ MANUEL RODRIGUES BERARDO, posiblemente uno de mis ídolos, coleccionista de arte moderno y contemporáneo más importantes del mundo.
Empedernido amasador de arte, polémico, enigmático y sobre todo, controvertido personaje.
Adoro a los mecenas y filántropos. Adoro a los que protegen a los artistas y adquieren y promueven sus obras, los dan a conocer y todo por amor a la comunidad.
Un sinfín de coleccionistas: Juan Abelló, Botín, Thyssen, Esther y Alicia Koplowitz, por no decir el más grande de todos: Gulbenkian.
Independientemente que unos me gusten más que otros.
BUDAS EN PORTUGAL
-Don José Manuel, está aquí su secretario personal y trae mal
semblante, con cara de malas pulgas, se lo advierto.
-Me tiene hasta los mismísimos, un tocahuevos de muchísimo
cuidado.
Hágale pasar a mi despacho y vaya sirviéndole una tila, y diga
a mis guardaespaldas que no le quiten ojo.
¡Hoy puede haber tiros!
……………..
-Buenos días, secretario. Hablando del rey de Roma…
¿Qué le trae por aquí? ¿Hoy no era su día libre?
-Vengo a presentarle mi dimisión irrenunciable de todos mis cargos.
-Bah, bah, bah, siempre me está amenazando, secretario.
¿Qué tripa se la ha roto ahora?
Y mire que me cae usted la mar de bien, pero si ese es su deseo por mí, sin ningún problema.
¿Necesito firmar el recibí? ¿Necesita alguna carta de
recomendación? Pida, pida.
-¡Váyase a la mierda, Berardo!
A partir de ahora me importa todo un rábano, no quiero saber
absolutamente nada de usted.
Calavera, eso es lo que es usted, un auténtico calavera, un suicida, un derrochador, un caprichoso, un empedernido narcisista. No era suficiente con ser el hombre más rico del país, de tener minas de diamantes y oro en Suráfrica, bancos, hoteles, viñedos, el jardín tropical más grande del mundo en las Azores, de tener el Museo BERARDO, para su puro disfrute, con más de dos mil obras de arte en BELÉM.
Ególatra, eso es lo que es usted, y por si fuera poco, se monta
en 35 hectáreas un parque temático repleto de lagos, pagodas, de dragones, de cientos de budas, algunos de hasta veintiún metros de altura, que han costado un riñón y parte del otro y encima, me entero por la prensa que se acaba de comprar una escultura de Fernando Botero de no sé cuántas toneladas y de no sé cuántos millones.
-Un chollo, secretario, una auténtica ganga.
-¡Qué sepa usted, que la fiscalía le está pisando los talones,
cualquier día acaba en el trullo o en la trena, que tanto
me da y no estaré ahí para sacarle las castañas del fuego!
-Corte el rollo, secretario, por cierto, le había prometido hace años que el día que se jubilara o me dejara, le regalaría un Picasso y nunca he faltado a mi palabra.
-Se puede meter el Picasso por donde le quepa.
-¡Pues usted mismo, secretario! Diga a su santa esposa que
tendré un regalo para ella acorde con su gran personalidad.
-¡Qué le zurzan!
-Lo mismo le digo, secretario.
Y ahora una canción del grupo leonés CAFÉ QUIJANO:
“La taberna de buda “.
Budapest
The plan to build it arose in 1842, due to the easier accessibility of the Chain Bridge, which was already under construction. The designs were made by William Tierney Clark. It was built between 1853 and 1858. Its length is 350 meters.
The chain bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Hungary, designed by English engineer William Tierney Clark and built by Scottish engineer Adam Clark. It was opened in 1849. It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to Széchenyi Square (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 bridge bears the name of István Széchenyi, a major supporter of its construction, but is most commonly known as the "Chain Bridge". At the time of its construction, it was regarded as a marvel of modern engineering.
Esztergom was the capital of Hungary from the 10th till the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda. During the same period, the castle of Esztergom was built on the site of ancient Roman castrum. It served not only as the royal residence until the 1241 (the Mongol invasion), but also as the center of the Hungarian state, religion, and Esztergom county.
After changing his residence to Budapest, Béla IV gave the palace and castle to the archbishop. Following these events, the castle was built and decorated by the bishops. The center of the king’s town, which was surrounded by walls, was still under royal authority. A number of different monasteries did return or settle in the religious center.
Meanwhile, the citizenry had been fighting to maintain and reclaim the rights of towns against the expansion of the church within the royal town. In the chaotic years after the fall of the House of Árpád, Esztergom suffered another calamity: in 1304, the forces of Wenceslaus II, the Czech king occupied and raided the castle. In the years to come, the castle was owned by several individuals: Róbert Károly and then Louis the Great patronized the town.
The Ottoman conquest of Mohács in 1526 brought a decline to the previously flourishing Esztergom as well. In the Battle of Mohács, the archbishop of Esztergom died. In the period between 1526 and 1543, when two rival kings reigned in Hungary, Esztergom was besieged six times. At times it was the forces of Ferdinand I or John Zápolya, at other times the Ottomans attacked. Finally, in 1530, Ferdinand I occupied the castle. He put foreign mercenaries in the castle, and sent the chapter and the bishopric to Nagyszombat and Pozsony.
However, in 1543 Sultan Suleiman I attacked the castle and took it. Esztergom became the centre of an Ottoman sanjak controlling several counties, and also a significant castle on the northwest border of the Ottoman Empire. In the 17th century Esztergom was besieged and conquered several times during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Most of the buildings in the castle and the town that had been built in the Middle Ages were destroyed during this period, and there were only uninhabitable, smothered ruins to welcome the liberators.
In 1761 the bishopric regained control over the castle, where they started the preliminary processes of the reconstruction of the new religious center: the middle of the Várhegy (Castle Hill), the remains of Saint Stephen and Saint Adalbert churches were carried away to provide room for the new cathedral.
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A wonderful staircase in Budapest looking up from the bottom. I made the top of it extra bright to create a shining effect.