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1. Hotel Budapest, Cog-wheel railway, The Citadella and River Danube Views

The rotunda building of the Hotel Budapest was an excellent place to stay on a Leger Holidays Silver Service tours trip across Eastern Europe including Hungary. The facilities for tourists are excellent including good food, comfortable rooms, splendid breakfasts and evening meals. The hotel is situated amongst the hills of the old town of Buda and pleasant views from the windows. The coach trip into town followed by a guided tour of the old city was handy for our all too brief visit to Buda and Pest.

AND you can of course dine on one the River Danube tourist boat trips - a dining river cruise treat for those special holidays like visiting the wonderful city of Budapest!

View from our hotel on the more attractive hilly parts of the 'old town'

 

The Hotel Budapest was just across the road from the cog-wheel railway!

 

The rebuilt Esterhausey?? Royal Palace (Kiraly Palota, high above the River Danube) - a quick shot from the coach as we headed for the Citadella close to the south-west bank (left bank) of the River Danube.

 

Budapest has been the site of an important town or city for over 2000 years, and no doubt a fort of some kind was built on the hill know as the 'Citadella'.

 

From the Citadella you get magnificent views of the city of Budapest and the River Danube.

The Bridge of Chains in the foreground, the views continue as you climb up the hill to the Citadella on Mount Gellert.

 

Artillery left over from World War II by the Citadel.

 

In the foreground the Elizabeth Bridge (Erzsebet hid).

 

 

 

 

The huge war memorial on the top of Gellert Hill, The Statue of Liberty, was  erected by the Russians in 1945, after WWII, in which they suffered terrible losses taking Prague from the Germans, including taking the Citadella too!

 

Behind the monument erected by the Russian Red Army of World War II is the Citadel, a fortress erected by the Austrians in 1851 where a 100 years later the Germans battled the Russian Army.

 

The great Monument to the Liberation.

 

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