Budapest Streets

The streets of Budapest are filled with fascinating and sometimes very idiosyncratic architecture.   Budapest's glory days were in the last few decades before WW1, and the Art Nouveau (Secession) movement was very big here.   And, although there was a lot of destruction in WW2, most of the city was reconstructed to look the same way.

One of the most striking buildings is the conservatory of music.  The interiors are amazing, not quite like any conservatory of music I have ever seen:

Inside:

We also saw the apartment where Liszt lived for a period of time.   I liked his desk:

Budapest was the second city in the world to have a subway.  The original subway line still works, and the stations might have looked like this a hundred years ago:

This is the museum for applied arts, closed for renovation:

Apartment building:

One of Budapest's markets, beautifully restored:

A bridge and street:

More apartments:

A statue on the Neo-Gothic House of Parliament:

One of the train stations:

Some buildings are still in a state of decay, but not as extreme as in Bucharest:

This is the photography museum;

Detail:

This is the opera house, which was staging an outdoor preview of its upcoming season:

This is an amazing theater:

Detail of the top:

Fisherman's Bastion, an architectural folly with a viewpoint of the river:

View:

One more building:

And an idea for my garden: