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Uno dei miei scatti preferiti del viaggio a Budapest ♥️
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Una panoramica meravigliosa di #Budapest e del #libertybridge. Giornata cupa e fradda purtroppo, dopotutto a metà gennaio non si andava a più di 2/3 gradi. Rimane una magnifica esperienza. ♥️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️ #Natgeotravel #awesomepix #beautifuldestinations #wonderfuldestination #scapparedacasa #Passionpassport #travel #mytravelgram #places_wow #hungary #ig_hungary #igershungary #travelblogger #loves_hungary #BeautifulIMatters #travel_captures #europe_vacations #firstpost #hungarygram #hungary🇭🇺 #enjoy_hungary #hungary_gram #landscape #loves_bestpic #hellohungary #goodmorning #amazing
E niente, viaggiamo con i ricordi: "I'm a free human being with an independent will."
(Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre)
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Piazza degli Eroi (in ungherese: Hősök tere) è una delle più importanti piazze di Budapest, ricca di elementi politici e storici. Si trova alla fine di Andrássy út, vicino al parco municipale Városliget. (Fonte Wikipedia)
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Uno scatto del mio ultimo viaggio in Ungheria. Qui siamo al Fisherman's Bastion, nella parte vecchia della cittu00e0, forse la piu00f9 bella da vedere. n.n.n#Natgeotravel ◾ #awesomepix ◾ #beautifuldestinations ◾ #wonderfuldestination ◾ #scapparedacasa ◾ #Passionpassport ◾ #travel ◾ #mytravelgram ◾ #places_wow ◾ #hungary ◾ #ig_hungary ◾ #igershungary ◾ #travelblogger ◾ #loves_hungary ◾ #BeautifulIMatters ◾ #Agameoftones ◾ #travel_captures ◾ #europe_vacations ◾ #hungarygram ◾ #hungary ◾ #enjoy_hungary ◾ #hungary_gram ◾ #landscape ◾ #loves_bestpic ◾ #hellohungary ◾ #goodmorning ◾ #amazing
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Vi giuro che la foto non rende giustizia all'immensità del Parlamento di Budapest (in ungherese Országház) è un palazzo di Budapest, simbolo della città e una delle mete turistiche più famose del paese. Si trova sulla sponda del Danubio dalla parte di Pest ed è la sede dell'Assemblea nazionale ungherese.
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Il meraviglioso ponte delle catene di Budapest. Collega la parte vecchia della città (Buda) con la parte nuova (Pest). Inaugurato nel 1849, venne fatto saltare dai tedeschi allo scopo di bloccare l'avanzata delle truppe sovietiche durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Venne ricostruito dalle autorità locali nel 1949.
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Let them think you're taking close-up shots of their pets.
- Romania! That was the country I enjoyed touring the most in Europe this trip. There are international borders that I've crossed and, having crossed them, noted a dramatic difference (e.g. from ditches-for-roads in the former Zaire to pavement in Uganda in '91), and the Hungarian-Romanian border was one. I wouldn't knock Hungary or Hungarians in any way; I enjoyed Hungary and my time there, of course, and I admire Hungarians for their superb artistry, creativity, and love of beauty, and for their poise and charm (the Gabor sisters www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVsEfR_hyc and even Lugosi come to mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=b17GiFsBiyQ ). But I found Romanians to be the most easy-going, direct, and friendly people that I met in Europe that trip (in general). And much of the country impressed me as more ancient and exotic in its architecture and in its culture (which of course made it interesting. Maramureș, Moldavia, and Transylvania were amazing.) Romanian roots run deep after all, as Dacia had been a great and populous prize for Rome when Trajan conquered Sarmizegethusa in 106 A.D.
- That said, I came across indications of real poverty here and there en route, which I write about in these descriptions, but I understand things have improved since 2000. Good, proud people will prevail.
- The Wallachian town of Glod (Romanian for 'Mud') was the stand-in for Kazakhstan in the undeniably funny 'Borat' 6 yr.s later. The locals were miffed with the result, of course. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Nm7mUTFC4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLeaVbyCTyc But then in 2020, a Transylvanian town in Valea Albeștiului (near Albesti, home to a famous battlefield), was a 2nd stand-in for Kazakhstan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm7St0Lalmo Fool me once ...
- I spent only 30 days in Romania (per my Visa) but covered much ground and saw much of the place. I traveled in Hungary and in Bulgaria for @ a month and a 1/2 each, but photogenic Romania's much better represented in this stream (23 photos).
- I received warnings and heard negative comments weeks earlier (once in a bar in Prague) that Romania was dangerous and not worth the risk, but which is to be expected. Europeans often slight their neighours, the Irish and the Scots re the English, the Dutch re the Germans, the Danes re the Swedes and vice versa, anyone in the Balkans re anyone else in the Balkans, etc. In Romania, I heard reports that Ukraine, just north of the border, was more dangerous too and crawling with mafia. Someone somewhere in Maramureș alleged that Ukrainian organized crime is so organized that muggers give you a receipt which you can show at the next mugging attempt. (An urban myth?) I didn't have any sense that I was ever in danger anywhere in Romania, except just the once the moment after crossing the border heading from Csengersima, Hungary (near Csenger) on the 49. A number of travelers were waiting for the bus to the city of Satu Mare (Sah-too Mah-ree, less than 10 km.s SE), and there were some locals in the group. One older man asked where I was heading, I think I said Sighet (which is where I ended up), and he gestured to a younger guy standing right there who just happened to be heading that way in his car, and who offered to give me a lift. But they were both wearing painted, almost sardonic, grins and there was an oleaginous quality to what seemed to be a bit of a hard sell. The older man pointed at the younger man again and made that gesture with his fingers from his lips which French chefs are supposed to make. "He's great!", he said. I don't think my take on the body language was the result of confirmation bias or undue concern; they were almost obvious. I declined, changed just enough $$ to buy a bus ticket, and didn't have to wait long for the bus. Again, that was the exception to my experience over the next 30 days which were filled with interactions with the nicest people I would meet in Europe that whole trip (along with the locals in the greater Manchester area in northern England, unless I'm biased, having roots there).
- I passed through Satu Mare (pop. @ 100,000) by bus and then on to Sighet. (The Treaty of Szatmár, signed in Satu Mare in 1711, ended Rákóczi's War for Independence from the Austrians.) I don't recall if I caught a bus in Satu Mare that took me directly to Sighet, or if I traveled via Baia Mare (@ 125,000), likely the former, but I had a window seat and was already impressed with how different and lovely Romania, or northern Romania, is.
- 2 1/2 mos. earlier, on Jan. 30, 2000, Baia Mare had been the site of Europe's worst ecological disaster since Chernobyl when a tailing dam at a gold processing plant broke and 100,000 cubic m.s, "70 tons, of cyanide and heavy metal-laced wastewater escaped into the Tisza River and into Hungary, making its way into the Danube and affecting Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, and Bulgaria. More than 1,400 tons of fish, and many eagles, storks and otters died, and the release may have led to the extinction of at least 5 species of fish." (Wikipedia) The Romanian government claimed that those fish died of 'cold', and the chair of the Australian co. that had been operating the mine, Esmeralda Exploration, was on the same page, claiming the fish had been deprived of oxygen when the river froze (?).
- I crossed the border and arrived in Sighetu Marmației (Sih-get-too, Mar-matsee-aye) aka Sighet, on my birthday and treated myself to my first Romanian supper with a good stew and the 6 puttunyo bottle of Tokaji Aszú dessert wine I'd bought for the occasion at a winery near Tokaj 2 or 3 days earlier.
- Sighet's right on the border with Ukraine, a portion of it once known as Ruthenia. I don't recall if Ukraine charged Canadians a fee for a Visa in 2000, but I'd paid $50.00 for one for Romania (for 30 days), and it didn't permit re-entry w/o payment for another, so I gave SW Ukraine a miss that trip, and later Moldova too.
- The Rough Guide describes Maramureș thusly.: "Little changed since Dacian times ... forested mtn.s and rough roads maintain scores of villages in almost medieval isolation, amid rolling hills with clumps of oak and beech and scattered flocks of sheep. ... The co.'s main attraction is its villages, with their superb wooden houses and churches, and traditional way of life. Every family occupies a compound with its livestock, fenced with timber, brush or latticework, and entered via a beamed gateway (poarta), the size of which indicates the family's status and prosperity. Nowhere else in Europe are folk costumes so generally worn, men wearing tiny clop straw hats and medieval rawhide galoshes (opinchi) or felt boots bound with thongs [see the group seated in my photo taken in Ieud], and women wearing boldly striped catrinița aprons of cloth from the water-powered fulling mills. ... Villagers have retained their traditional religion (the Uniate rite alloyed with pagan reliefs), myths and codes of behaviour. Most interesting is the marvellous woodwork of Maramureș: the gates, many elaborately carved with symbols such as the tree of life, sun, rope and snake, continue to be produced today, and are rivalled only by the biserici de lemn or wooden churches, most built in the 18th cent. when this gothic-inspired architecture reached its height. ..." (I'll quote further re the churches in the description of my photo taken in Ieud.)
- "The city [of Sighetu Marmației's] name derives from a Hungarian name which means "Island in Máramaros". ... In the 10th cent. the area became part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The first mention of a settlement dates to the 11th cent., and the first known reference to the city dates from 1326.
- "In 1352, it was a free royal town and the capital of Máramaros comitatus, just outside Transylvania." (wikipedia) According to a 1910 census of the town's 21,370 inhabitants, 82.1% were Hungarian and 9.4% were Romanian. The number of Jews (included with the Hungarian and German populations) was 7,981. By 1930 (following WWI and the signing of the Trianon treaty) the number of Romanians had increased to 9,658 in a pop. of 27,270, and the Jewish population was 10,526. Today, Romanians comprise @ 82% of the population. "As a result of the August 1940 2nd Vienna Award, [Sighet] came under Hungarian administration during WWII. A first deportation of Jews from Sighet took place in 1942, the 2nd occurred after Passover in 1944, so that by April, the town's ghetto contained close to 13,000 Jews from Sighet itself and the surrounding area. Between May 16 and 22, the ghetto was liquidated in 4 transports, its inhabitants sent to Auschwitz. Among the deportees was Sighet native and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel [the author of 'Night']. In 1947, there were some 2,300 Jews in Sighet, including survivors and a considerable number from other parts of Romania. By 2002, the town was home to only 20 remaining Jews." (Wikipedia) But remarkably, the 1st synagogue built in Europe after 1940 was built in Sighet, and only in 2017. true-romania.tours/first-synagogue-built-europe-1940/ Elie Wiesel's family home in Sighet would open in 2002 as a Museum of Jewish culture, and as a tribute to Wiesel, his life, and to the Jewish communities of Maramureș that were destroyed in the holocaust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7uTOEx7wg
- I was introduced to Eastern Orthodox church architecture in Maramureș, and I toured 2 or 3 churches in Sighet, which is home to Romanian and Ukrainian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and 'Hungarian Reformed' varieties (the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate in Romania is headquartered in Sighet). I saw (and photographed) Sighet's large, well-preserved (from the outside at least), late 19th-cent. synagogue, but it was locked when I was there.
- I toured the 'Memorial Museum to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance' in a former communist-era political prison (see my comment to the next photo of the group of kids gathered outside it) and a large ethnographic 'Village' museum (which abound in Eastern Europe), with traditional wooden houses, farm bldg.s and churches relocated to the site from the surrounding area, some dating from as early as the 16th cent. My memory's fuzzy but I think that it was there where I met the French tour group travelling with the Council of Europe (see my photo of the 3 men in Călinești).
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- I don't recall it but I took a photo in the 'Maramureș Ethnographic Museum', which is filled with folk costumes and festival paraphernalia.
- Here's a write-up in the Rough Guide re the fun and syncretistic local 'Winter Customs Festival' held in Sighet on Dec. 27.: "The festival is heralded by brightly decorated horses galloping down the main street ... [Later], a rather mishmash play begins with soldiers arriving to tell King Herod about the rumour of a saviour, while bears roll around the ground to raise the earth spirits. Horsemen are called to find the infant child and men bring heavy iron cowbells to drive away evil spirits, represented by multi-coloured, animist-style dracus. Present throughout is the clapping wooden goat (capra), warding off evil spirits to ensure that spring will return." The LP writes that "oxen carry baked cakes /b/ their horns" during this festival.
- As to regional mythology in Maramureș and Bukovina, one prominent character is Marțolea (aka Marț Sara, old Romanian for "Tuesday evening"), a demonic or malefic entity whose gender is unclear as it can shapeshift at will. It lives up in the mountains and descends on Tuesday nights to lure with its singing and punish women caught working, for Tuesday is a semi-holy day to be respected, and women are forbidden specifically from spinning wool, sowing, boiling laundry, and baking bread on Tuesday evenings. "Marțolea repays the women who keep Tuesday sacred by leaving them eggs on their doorstep or flowers from the highest mountains in Bukovina." (wikipedia)
- Another is the Vârcolac (a loan word from Slavic; Bulgarian Varkolak, and Vulkodlak), a wolf demon, or werewolf, which may swallow the moon and which is responsible for eclipses. Vârcolaci fasten themselves to thread being spun at midnight, and then ascend to eat the moon and cover it with blood. Vârcolaci fall into a deep sleep when sending their spirits out through their mouths to eat the sun or the moon. If moved during their sleep, they will die as their returning spirit won't be able to find the mouth it emerged from.
- "Pricolici, similar to Strigoi, are undead souls that have risen from the grave to harm living people. While a Strigoi possesses anthropomorphic qualities similar to the ones it had before death, a Pricolici always resembles a wolf. Malicious, violent men are often said to metamorphose into Pricolici after death so as to continue harming living humans.' (wikipedia)
- The Rough guide writes about the tiny local village of Glod (Romanian for 'Mud', not to be confused with the Wallachian Glod that stood in for Borat's 'Kazakhstan') thusly.: The "unspoilt village of Glod ... is known for its folk beliefs, such as in werewolves and spirits of the night, and associations with the outlaw Pintea Viteazul [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfM5Z6tcjM www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF-YLObgvKM ]; tales tell of his treasure buried under a spring and protected by a curse." Weeks later in Hunedoara, I was a guest in the home of a local family for supper, and I asked about something that I'd heard or read en route, that in some villages in the north the locals hang strings of garlic @ their windows. I asked why, "to deter vampires?" My host's son said (very deadpan, IF he was kidding) "No, for the werewolves."
The world-famous historical wine district of Eger is situated about 120 km east of Budapest, on the southern foothills of the Bükk mountains in Hungary. In the centre of this picturesque countryside, two generations of the Juhász family have grown grapes and produced wine. Their winery, which dates back to the 1700s, can be found among the famous, historical wine cellars of the well-known Szépasszonyvölgy (Valley of the Beautiful Women).
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Anjelly, I will miss you so fucking much! 😭 you're my bestest friend even tho we've only knew each other for 6 months but we still have tons of memories! I will miss us fangirlin together, being lab partners in science and much much more! Remember how I was shy when I first met u and now guess what i'm some crazy wild bitch after we've known each other so well! 😂💗😊❤️ Enjoy Hungary! Xoxoxo luv ya lots! #stillbffs #quote #tumblr #friendshipquotes #anjelly #bae #iwillmissyou @angi.xx_me - fabullama_jess