Budapest is actually the marriage of two towns, Buda (up in the hills)
and Pest (pronounced Pe-sh-t to be accurate, down in the flat lands, and
largely rebuilt in the 1800s after a bad flood). The first permanent bridge
over the Danube River was the Chain Bridge (next page), and several others
followed... but that was after the two towns were united in the 1700s.
Not a moral judgment, just a poor translation (had we been in Las
Vegas, I'd guess it would be right).
Hero's Square, in the Pest area of town, commemorating the 1,000
anniversary of the city in 1896.
12 statues within the Square, the first being St. Stephen, who did
a great many things for Pest.
At the bast of the center pillar are 7 horsemen, each the leader
of one of the town's original 7 tribes.
The streets stay so neat, in part, to a small army of street cleaners
roaming about with brooms.
Crossing the St. Margaret Bridge, one of several joining the original
towns Buda and Pest.
