The Statue of the Policeman in Pest

1-2 The statue of a policeman on Zrinyi utca, a street that takes to the Danube River (the Chain Bridge is just on the left). It is very near St Stephan's Basilica on the Pest side of town.

3 It is a bronze statue from the early 1900's.

4-5 I just liked the statue, as I passed it during the free walking tour I did on Saturday morning before our departure .

6-7  I was impressed by the great number of statues Budapest is filled with. They can be seen in almost every district in the city. They are statues  of many famous Hungarians from Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary to the composer Franz Liszt, as well as other notable Hungarian artists, architects and political figures.

7 How amusing to meet this Hungarian policeman who is wearing his typical uniform! When I saw him, I thought about the food and wine he might like: Gulyásleves (goulash soup), Pörkölt (meat stew),  rétes (strudel) and surely Pálinka!

                                                                                                Patrizia Coppola

Központi Vásárcsarnok – Central Market Hall

1.      Központi Vásárcsarnok – Central Market Hall.  Address: Vámház körüt 1 – 3. It is located at the end of the famous pedestrian shopping street Váci Utza and on the Pest side of the beautiful Liberty bridge.

2.      It is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest.  On the ground floor you'll find sausages, meats, cheese, fruits, vegetables and flowers. On the second floor there are souveniers, clothes, textiles and eateries.

3.      It was designed and built by Samu Pecz around 1896. During the World Wars it was completely damaged and then closed for some years. Throughout the 1990s restoration works brought back the market to its ancient splendour.

4.      A distinctive architectural feature is the roof which was restored to have colorful Zsolnay tiling.

5.      The Central Market Hall was full of people: local and tourists. I guess it is a popular meeting place and an excellent place to do some grocery and souvenir shopping.

6.      It is similar to many other market halls but still something special: there are so many paprika products and beautiful Hungarian style articles you can´t find anywhere else.

7.      The athmosphere is nice and magical. You are nor in a hurry when you walk down the stunning, colourful alleys. You just enjoy.

Tiina Stara

Scanning Budapest Vajdahunyad Castle

1-Vajdahunyad Castle in Városliget park

2-Imitation of Gothic castle for the Millennium exhibition

3-Designed by Ignác Alpár  before 1896 and built, as we see it now, from 1904 to 1908

4-It combines all the principal architectural styles in Hungary and Transilvania

5-Városliget is a park place for people to relax from urban life. The buildings close to the Gothic castle are a Romanesque Abbey and Renaissance and Baroque Palaces. It gives a real History of Art lesson.

6-This castle recreation is similar to others well kept castles in Europe, also with its garden, stone bridge and water moat.

7-The castle area in Buda is without its old castle. This castle in Pest surrounded by green of vegetation and blue from water inspires to feel the Middle Age in Hungary.

Jordi Ribas

Scanning Budapest

1-Great Synagogue on Dohány street, PEST

2-Europe’s largest synagogue temple

3-Built from 1854 to 1859

4- Its art combines Romantic, Byzantine & Moorish style

5-Holy place for the Jewish community. It contains also a museum worth to see it

6-It reminds me partly from outside to the old mosque in Cordova (Spain). The towers are very special  with its domes

7-I felt sad visiting the museum and thinking that this wonderful temple was once crowded with people prying before the Second World War. These people suffered a lot and most of them were killed later in Nazi concentration camps. 

Jordi Ribas

Look at the lids of sewage pipe in the street!

1. The lids of the sewage pipes in Budapest.

2. Wherever you look you will find beautiful details.

3. The lids have been designed hundreds of years.

4. They reflect their own time and can be different in different parts of the town.

5. You go on the lids without paying any attention, but they are often very decorative.

6. The lids in Budapest are both decorative and specially designed for Budapest.

7. You can find beautiful and special things just looking around you, also looking at the ground.

Anna-Maija Lyyra

Keleti pályaudvar- Eastern railwaystation in Budapest

1. Keleti pályadvar  - Eastern railwaystation is locatid in VIII district in Budapest.
2. On old railwaystation in the middle of the city which is still in use.
3. It was built 1881-1884 and renovated 1998.
4. The architectig style is neorenaissaince and the building was designed of Gyula Rochlitzin. 
5. This beautiful buiding with  ornate details is still today a railwaystation which a lot of people are passing trough every day.
6. It was a big surprise to found this building in the middle of the city center.
7. When you look around the station you can just imagine how people in the 19th century bought their tickets and boarded the steam engined train!

         

                                            

Anna-Maija Lyyra

              

Multi-language questionnaire translated by the partner teachers and students