IMAGE	IMAGE NO.	DATA
Hotel Ibis		Ibis Budapest Volga, a three-star hotel, is one of Ibis hotel groups in Budapest.  It is next to Dozsa Gyorgy Station (M3): Dozsa Gyorgy ut 65.  In summer 2003, I stayed one night at another Hotel Ibis in Rday u.6.
	bud2006-001	(Sunday 11 June) Ibis Budapest Volga, Dozsa Gyorgy ut 65
	bud2006-134	(Wednesday 14 June) A view from my room (#815), Ibis Budapest Volga, Dozsa Gyorgy ut 65
	bud2006-135	(Wednesday 14 June) A view from my room (#815), Ibis Budapest Volga, Dozsa Gyorgy ut 65
Deak Ferenc ter		This is the only junction for all the three underground lines of Budapest.
	bud2006-002	(Sunday 11 June) A monument in Vorosmartyr ter (Vorosmarty Square)
	bud2006-003	(Sunday 11 June) Ferenc u.
	bud2006-004	(Sunday 11 June) Vaci utca (Vaci Street)
	bud2006-005	(Sunday 11 June) LiLing Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (left) and Yen-Yen Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (right) at a cafe off Vaci utca (Vaci Street)
	bud2006-256	(Thursday 15 June) A street musician at Deak F. ter
Hosok tere		Hosok tere (Heroes' Square) is the largest square of Budapest, which constructed in 1896, the millenary anniversary of the founding of Hungary.  In its center stands "Millenniumi emlekmu" (Millenium Monument, 35 m high) with Archangel Gabriel on top: On its pedestal the seven equestrian statues of the seven founding Magyar chieftans including Arpad.  (A legend tells that one day the archangel appeared in the Roman Pope's dream, telling of enthroning Istvan I [St. Stephen]).   There are fourteen statues of Hungarian heroes here: Szt. Istvan, Szt. Laszlo, Kalman Konyves, II. Endre, IV. Bela, Karoly Robert, Nagy Lajos, Hunyadi Janos, Matyas, Bocskai Istvan, Bethlen Gabor, Thokoly Imre, II. Rakoczi Ferenc and Kossuth Lajos.  Beneath the colomn and under a stone tile is the nation's most solemn memorial -- an empty coffin representing one of the unknown insurgents from the 1956 Uprising against the former USSR.
	bud2006-018	(Sunday 11 June) Hosok tere
	bud2006-020	(Sunday 11 June) The right colomnade of Hosok tere: the seven statues of Hunyadi Janos, Matyas, Bocskai Istvan, Bethlen Gabor, Thokoly Imre, II. Rakoczi Ferenc and Kossuth Lajos.
	bud2006-021	(Sunday 11 June) The left colomnade of Hosok tere: the other seven statues of Szt. Istvan, Szt. Laszlo, Kalman Konyves, II. Endre, IV. Bela, Karoly Robert and Nagy Lajos.
	bud2006-022	(Sunday 11 June) The statues of Szt. Istvan and Szt. Laszlo on the left colomnade, Hosok tere
	bud2006-023	(Sunday 11 June) The statue of Szt. Istvan on the left colomnade, Hosok tere
	bud2006-024	(Sunday 11 June) The statue of Kossuth Lajos on the right colomnade, Hosok tere
	bud2006-026	(Sunday 11 June) Szepmuveszeti Museum (Museum of Fine Art), on the northern side of Hosok tere.  It houses the city's outstanding collection of foreign art works in a renovated building dating from 1906.  The old Masters collection is the most complete, with thousands of works from the Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Italian, German, French and British schools between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, including Raffaello's "Esterhazy Madonna," Goya's "A Koszorus," Velazquez's "Etkezo parasztok," El Greco's "Krisztus az olajfak hegyen" and Cranach's "Szent Katalin eljegyzese."
	bud2006-027	(Sunday 11 June) Mucsarnok (Mucsarnok Exhibition Hall: an international modern art museum with no permanent exhibition), on the southern side of Hosok tere
Vajdahunyad vara		This castle in Varosliget (City Park) was built for the Hungarian Millennium in 1896 (just like so many other things in Budapest ).   It was designed by Ignac Alpar and it consist of 3 "blocks" in different styles: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance.  It's name comes from the most significant part, the tower, which is a copy of the tower of the castle in Vajdahunyad.  The buildings were originally only temporary ones, but because of the popularity in 1900 Alpari received an assignment to reconstruct them as the permanent buildings.  Today the biggest part of it houses the collection of the Museum of Agriculture.
	bud2006-030	(Sunday 11 June) Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
	bud2006-031	(Sunday 11 June) Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
	bud2006-032	(Sunday 11 June) Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
	bud2006-033	(Sunday 11 June) Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
	bud2006-034	(Sunday 11 June) Statue of "Anonymous," Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
	bud2006-036	(Sunday 11 June) Vajdahunyad Castle, City Park
Var		Szentharomsag ter (Holy Trinity Square), etc.
	bud2006-037	(Sunday 11 June) A tannenbaum (Christmas tree) near Szentharomsag ter (Holy Trinity Square)
	bud2006-039	(Sunday 11 June) Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2.  It dates back some 500 years, notably the carvings above the southern entrance.  But basically the church (so named because the 15th century Renaissance king Matthias Corvinus married Beatrix here in 1474) is a neo-Gothic creation designed by the architect Frigyes Schulek in 1896.  The church has a colorful tiled roof and a lovely tower.
	bud2006-040	(Sunday 11 June) Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-041	(Sunday 11 June) Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-044	(Sunday 11 June) Interior of Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2.  The interior is remarkable for its stained-glass windows, frescoes and wall decorations by the Romantic painters Karoly Lotz and Bertalan Szekely.  There are organ concerts in the church on certain evenings, continuing a tradition that began in 1876 when Franz Liszt's Hungarian Coronation Mass was first played here for the coronation of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth as king and queen of Hungary.
	bud2006-045	(Sunday 11 June) Interior of Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-047	(Sunday 11 June) Interior of Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-048	(Sunday 11 June) Interior of Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-049	(Sunday 11 June) Interior of Matyas templom (Matthias Church), Szentharomsag ter 2
	bud2006-050	(Sunday 11 June) "Szt. Istvan-szobor" (Statue of St. Stephen) on the east side of Matthias Church
	bud2006-052	(Sunday 11 June) "Szt. Istvan-szobor" (Statue of St. Stephen) on the east side of Matthias Church
	bud2006-053	(Sunday 11 June) Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-058	(Sunday 11 June) The Danube, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-059	(Sunday 11 June) The Danube, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-291	(Sunday 18 June) Becsi kapu (Vienna Gate), the medieval entrance to the Old Town, was rebuilt in 1936 to mark the 250th anniversary of retaking of the castle from the Turks.
	bud2006-292	(Sunday 18 June) Near Becsi kapu (Vienna Gate)
	bud2006-312	(Sunday 18 June) Tancsics M.u. and Evangelikus templom (Lutheran Evangelical church)
	bud2006-313	(Sunday 18 June) Tancsics M.u.
	bud2006-314	(Sunday 18 June) Off Tancsics M.u.
	bud2006-315	(Sunday 18 June) Tancsics M.u. and Matyas templom (Matthias Church)
	bud2006-316	(Sunday 18 June) Off Tancsics M.u.
	bud2006-317	(Sunday 18 June) Aldersbacher (cafe restaurant) or "Sissy," 1014 Budapest, Disz ter 8
	bud2006-318	(Sunday 18 June) Hideg gyumolcsleves ([sweet and sour] cold fruit soup), Aldersbacher (cafe restaurant) or "Sissy," 1014 Budapest, Disz ter 8
Kalvin ter		Kalvin ter
	bud2006-090	(Monday 12 June) Police Station, Kecskemeti u. (next to Alfoldi)
	bud2006-091	(Monday 12 June) Police Station, Kecskemeti u. (next to Alfoldi)
	bud2006-092	(Monday 12 June) Alfoldi (Hungarian restaurant), Kecskemeti u.4
	bud2006-093	(Monday 12 June) Me @ Alfoldi (Hungarian restaurant), Kecskemeti u.4
	bud2006-095	(Monday 12 June) Me @ Alfoldi (Hungarian restaurant), Kecskemeti u.4
	bud2006-094	(Monday 12 June) Alfoldi (Hungarian restaurant), Kecskemeti u.4
	bud2006-096	(Monday 12 June) Alfoldi (Hungarian restaurant), Kecskemeti u.4
	bud2006-097	(Monday 12 June) A poster of Morrisey eating ice cream, Kecskemeti u.
	bud2006-098	(Monday 12 June) A poster of Haruki Murakami the Japanese novelist and translator (1949-), Kalvin ter station.  His works have been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex."  As he confesses, he was much influenced by Western music and writers, especially Franz Kafka.  He has translated many American writers' works including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, etc.   Murakami was born as a son of a Buddhist family in Kyoto in 1949 and graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo.  In 1986, Murakami left Japan, traveled throughout Europe, and settled in the United States.  Murakami taught at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ and at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.  In January 2001, he came back to Japan and now lives in Oiso, Kanagawa (in the western suburbs of Tokyo).   Murakami published many novels, "Trilogy of the Rat" [Hear the Wind Sing (1979), Pinball (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982)], Norwegian Wood (1987), Dance, Dance, Dance (1988), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1992-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), After Dark (2004), etc.  He also has published numerous collections of short stories, among them, The Elephant Vanishes (1985) is my favorite.  He won numerous literary awards at home and abroad: Franz Kafka Award (2006), Frank O'Conor Short Story Award (2006), etc.
	bud2006-123	(Tuesday 13 June) Nemzeti Museum (National Museum), Museum krt. 14-16
	bud2006-124	(Tuesday 13 June) Nemzeti Museum (National Museum), Museum krt. 14-16
	bud2006-125	(Tuesday 13 June) Me @ Nemzeti Museum (National Museum), Museum krt. 14-16
	bud2006-126	(Tuesday 13 June) Nemzeti Museum (National Museum), Museum krt. 14-16
Ferenc krt.
	bud2006-136	(Wednesday 14 June) A fruitshop, Ferenc krt.
	bud2006-137	(Wednesday 14 June) Trams, Ferenc krt.
Orszaghaz		Orszaghaz (the Eclectic Parliament, V Kossuth Lajos ter 1-3), designed by Imere Steindl and completed in 1902, has almost 700 sumptuously decorated rooms but you'll only get to see three in the North Wing: the main staircase and landing, where the Crown of St. Stephen, the nation's most important national icon, is on display; the Loge Hall; and the Congress Hall, where the House of Lords of the one-time bicameral assembly sat until 1944.  The building is a blend of many architectural styles neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque, neobaroque) and in sum works very well.  Members of Parliament sit in the National Assembly Hall in the South Wing from Fenruary to June and from September to December.
	bud2006-054	(Sunday 11 June) Me with Parliament in the background, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-055	(Sunday 11 June) Parliament, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-056	(Sunday 11 June) Parliament, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-057	(Sunday 11 June) Parliament, viewed from Halsdzbastya (Fishermen's Bastion), Var
	bud2006-202	(Wednesday 14 June) Parliament, viewed from Margit hid
	bud2006-343	(Sunday 18 June) Parliament viewed from Szechenyi Lanchid
	bud2006-278	(Friday 16 June) Parliament, viewed from in the bus along Szechenyi rakpart
An old mall in Sador u.		On the way from Deak ter to Kalvin ter
	bud2006-259	(Thursday 15 June) An old mall in Sador u.
	bud2006-261	(Thursday 15 June) An old mall in Sador u
	bud2006-263	(Thursday 15 June) An old mall in Sador u (founded in 1909).
	bud2006-265	(Thursday 15 June) Egyetemi Konyvtar, Bibliotheca Universitatis (ELTE University Library, built in 1873), Budapest V. ker. Ferenciek tere 6.
	bud2006-266	(Thursday 15 June) Egyetemi Konyvtar, Bibliotheca Universitatis (ELTE University Library, built in 1873), Budapest V. ker.
Nyugati pu.		The large iron and glass structure of Nyugati pu. (Western Railway Station) on Nyugati ter (once known as Marx ter) was built in 1877 by the Paris-based Eiffel Company.  In the early 1970s a train actually crashed through the enormous glass screen on the main facade when its brakes failed, coming to rest at the tram line.
	bud2006-279	(Saturday 17 June) Nyugati pu. (Western Railway Station)
	bud2006-282	(Saturday 17 June) MacDonald's, Nyugati pu: This is said to be the MacDonald's with the world-finest interior according to the Japanese Chikyu-no-Arukikata 03-04 (Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook: Budapest & Hungary 2003-04).
	bud2006-283	(Saturday 17 June) MacDonald's, Nyugati pu: This is said to be the MacDonald's with the world-finest interior according to the Japanese Chikyu-no-Arukikata 03-04 (Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook: Budapest & Hungary 2003-04).
	bud2006-284	(Saturday 17 June) MacDonald's, Nyugati pu: This is said to be the MacDonald's with the world-finest interior according to the Japanese Chikyu-no-Arukikata 03-04 (Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook: Budapest & Hungary 2003-04).
	bud2006-285	(Saturday 17 June) MacDonald's, Nyugati pu: This is said to be the MacDonald's with the world-finest interior according to the Japanese Chikyu-no-Arukikata 03-04 (Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook: Budapest & Hungary 2003-04).
	bud2006-286	(Saturday 17 June) MacDonald's, Nyugati pu: This is said to be the MacDonald's with the world-finest interior according to the Japanese Chikyu-no-Arukikata 03-04 (Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook: Budapest & Hungary 2003-04).  Do you agree?  I just want to say, "So what?"
Oktogon		Oktogon in the middle of Andrassy ut.
	bud2006-287	(Saturday 17 June) LiLing Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (right) and Yen-Yen Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (left), "Abszint" (kavez es etterem), Andrassy ut 34
	bud2006-288	(Saturday 17 June) Accordionist, "Abszint" (kavez es etterem), Andrassy ut 34
	bud2006-289	(Saturday 17 June) LiLing Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (left 2) and Yen-Yen Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (left 1), the accordionist and me at "Abszint" (kavez es etterem), Andrassy ut 34
	bud2006-290	(Saturday 17 June) Absinth, "Abszint" (kavez es etterem), Andrassy ut 34
Budavari labirintus		Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle) is the unique calcareous tuff caves of the Castle Hill were created as an effect of the hot water springs at the dawn of the history of the Earth.  These caves then served as refuge as well as hunting ground for the prehistoric man (the "Hunter of Buda") appearing half a million years ago.  Later the small caves were connected to each other and also to the cellarage of the houses of the Castle District for economic and military purposes, and the complex thus developed into a veritable labyrinth.  It was used for wine-cellars, torturing-chambers, jails or treasury during the Middle Ages.  In the 1930s, as part of the wartime defense program, the complex of cellars was converted into a shelter and a military hospital large enough to accommodate as many as then thousand people at a time.  Reinforced - and also disfigured - with concrete, it served as a secret military installation during the Cold War.   In the short interceptions of military utilization and especially since the end of the Cold War, there have been initiatives to turn the labyrinth to cultural uses.  A cave museum opened then reopened, and in the early 1980s, the first exhibition of wax figures in Hungary was set up here.   During the reconstruction work, which took place in 1996, the labyrinth -- extending to over 4,000 square meters -- regained its pre-war look as far as it was possible, with the word "labyrinth" determining its cultural and spiritual profile.  In the present context "labyrinth" is a web of paths leading to our world, our history, or ourselves, which, given sufficient resolve, can be charted here.  Looking back from the middle or from the end, the area you have covered will appear as an ordered, meaningful fabric of individual lives and historic destines rather than a bewildering maze.  It is of course in the Personal Labyrinth that you will most probably realize this deeper significance of the labyrinth but it also shows, to a greater or lesser degree, in the Prehistoric, Historical Labyrinths and in the Labyrinth of an Other-World as well as in the Labyrinth of Courage, which is opened for the children.   The Labyrinth of Buda Castle invites his guests also with literary, philosophical programs, films and music in which the topic labyrinth take a prominent part, viz. destiny, nemesis, liberty -- the literary visiting of labyrinth, descent to hell, the spiritual Odysseys. (Quoted from the official pamphlet Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-319	(Sunday 18 June) Entrance to Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle), Uri u.9
	bud2006-320	(Sunday 18 June) Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-321	(Sunday 18 June) Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-322	(Sunday 18 June) Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-323	(Sunday 18 June) Renaissance Hall of Rocks with Wine Fountains of Mathias, Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-324	(Sunday 18 June) Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-325	(Sunday 18 June) Tartar Corridor, Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
	bud2006-326	(Sunday 18 June) Arpadian Vaults with the Baptismal Font, Budavari labirintus (Labyrinth of Buda Castle)
Szechenyi Lanchid		Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge) was the first link between Buda and Pest over Duna (the Danube): It started to be constructed with the idea of Count Szecheny Istvan in 1839 and, with the English engineer T. W. Clark and the Scottish architect Adam Clark, was completed in 1849.  Clark Adam ter, in the sleeve of the bridge in the Buda side, is the starting point of all Hungarian roads to and from the capital.  In this sense this is the Hungarian "Nihonbashi" (literally "Bridge of Japan"), the point from which all distances in Japan are measured.  The curious sculpture, which looks like a elongated doughnut, hidden in the bushes to the south is the 0 km Stone.
	bud2006-332	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge) and Duna (the Danube)
	bud2006-333	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge) and Duna (the Danube)
	bud2006-334	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge) and Duna (the Danube)
	bud2006-335	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-336	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-337	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-338	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-340	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-341	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
	bud2006-342	(Sunday 18 June) Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge)
St. Istvan Bazilika		In honor of Szent Istvan, the first Christian king of Hungary, Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica, V Szent Istvan ter) began to be constructed in 1851 on the basis of the design by Jozsef Hild.  This is the largest church of the capital and it was built among rather troublesome circumstances.  After the death of Hild in 1867, the dome collapsed in 1868.  Miklos Ybl was assigned to supervise the construction, who corrected the deficiencies and partly redesigned the building.  The work was resumed accordingly.  After the death of Miklos Ybl in 1891, the building was completed under the supervision of Jozsef Kauser.  The consecration took place in 1905.   Ground-space of the church surface: 1,895 sq m, total length: 86,37 m, width: 55 m, internal diameter of the main dome: 20 m, height of the main dome: 96.3 m, internal height of the main dome: 65 m.
	bud2006-255	(Thursday 15 June) Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica), viewed from Deak Ferenc ter
	bud2006-346	(Sunday 18 June) Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica), V Szent Istvan ter
	bud2006-349	(Sunday 18 June) Rehearsal for "Az Ismeretlen Liszt Meghivo" (2006. Junius 18) in the background of Szent Istvan kiraly (d. 1038), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-350	(Sunday 18 June) Rehearsal for "Az Ismeretlen Liszt Meghivo" (2006. Junius 18) in the background of Szent Istvan kiraly (d. 1038), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-351	(Sunday 18 June) Szent Istvan Szuz Maria oltalmaba ajanlja az orszagot (Saint Stephen offers the country to Blessed Virgin Mary for protection), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-352	(Sunday 18 June) Krisztus a Kalvarian (Christ on the Calvary), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-348	(Sunday 18 June) Krisztus a Kalvarian (Christ on the Calvary), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-353	(Sunday 18 June) Ceilings of Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)
	bud2006-354	(Sunday 18 June) A Szent Jobb (the Holy Right Hand), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)   King Stephen died on 15th August, 1038.  On 15th August 1083 he was canonized in Szekesfehervar.  His right hand found intact has been highly esteemed by the nation ever since.  It had been kept in Bihar (Transylvania), Raguza (Dalmatia, now Dubrovnik), then Vienna, from where it was brought to Buda in 1771.  In 1944 it was carried away to the west, it was returned to Hungary on 19th August 1945.
	bud2006-355	(Sunday 18 June) Szent Jobb kapolna es a Szent Jobb (Chapel and the Holy Right Hand), Szent Istvan Bazilika (St. Stephen's Basilica)