JOYCEAN PICS 2003
Esztergom
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  Esztergom Basilica
  The Danube (Donau)
  The Museum restaurant, cnr Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca
CONTENTS 2003
   1  Debrecen IASIL 2003
   2  Debrecen, Jews and Joyce
   3  Debrecen: miscellanea
   4  Eger (Mid-Conference Tour)
   5  Szarvas and Opusztaszer (Post-Conference Tour)
   6  Szeged (Post-Conference Tour)
   7  Kecskemet (Post-Conference Tour)
   8  Visegrad (Post-Conference Tour)
   9  Szentendre (Post-Conference Tour)
  10  Esztergom (Post-Conference Tour)
  11  Budapest, Jews and Joyce (Post-Conference Tour, etc.)
  12  Szombathely
  13  Szekesfehervar
  14  The James Joyce Annual Summer School
  15  Dublin, Jews and Joyce
  16  Dublin: miscellanea
  17  Galway

Esztergom
Post-Conference Tour Day 3

  Esztergom, 25 km from Visegrad and 66 km from Budapest via route No. 11, is one of Hungary's most historical and sacred cities.  For more than 1000 years it has been the seat of Roman Catholicism - the archbishop of Esztergom is the primate of Hungary.  The country's first king, St. Stephen, was born here in 975, and it was a royal seat from the late tenth- to mid-thirteenth centuries.  For these and many other reasons, Esztergom has both great spiritual and temporal significance for most Hungarians.  Prince Geza chose Esztergom as his capital, and his son Vajk (as he was known before his baptism) was crowned King Stephen here in 1000.  Stephen founded one of the country's two archbishoprics and a basilica at Esztergom, bits of which can be seen in the palace.
  Esztergom (German: Gran) lost its political significance when King Bela IV moved the capital to Buda following the Mongol invasion in 1241.  It remained an important trading center and the ecclesiastical seat, however, vying with the royal court for power and influence.  Esztergom's capture by the Turks in 1543 interrupted the church's activities, and the archbishop fled to Nagyszombat (now Trnava in Slovakia).  The church did not re-establish its base here - the 'Hungarian Rome' - until the early 19th century.  It was then that Esztergom went on a building spree that transformed it into a city of late baroque and, in particular, neoclassical buildings.  (Steve Fallon & Neal Bedford, Hungary 156.)

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Esztergom Basilica
  
   Esztergom Basilica is the center of Hungarian Catholicism and the largest church in the country: it is in Szent Istvan ter on Castle Hill, and its 72 m-high central dome can be seen soaring up for many kilometers around.  The building of the present neoclassical church was begun in 1822 on the site of a twelfth-century one destroyed by the Turks.  Jozsef Hild, who designed the cathedral at Eger, was involved in the final stages, and the basilica was consecrated in 1856 with a sung Mass composed by Franz Liszt.
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 (Monday 14 July) Esztergom Basilica, viewed from the Danube ferry.
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 (Monday 14 July) Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Esztergom Basilica.
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 (Monday 14 July) Statue of Macyarok Nacyasszonya, Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Interior of Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Interior of Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Interior of Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Statue of St. Stephen, Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) Girls playing the flutes in the precinct of Esztergom Basilica
  
  
   
The Danube
  
   The Danube, viewed from Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) The Danube, viewed from Esztergom Basilica
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 (Monday 14 July) The Danube, viewed from Esztergom Basilica
  
  
   
Museum restaurant
  
   The Museum restaurant, cnr Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca & Batthyany utca
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 (Monday 14 July) Poet/Prof. Se-Soon Lee at the Museum restaurant, cnr Bajcsy-Zsilinszky utca & Batthyany utca




        


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