01-Looking downriver: Hungarian National Gallery and Mátyás Church (far right).
02-Gellert Hill from the tour boat
03-View from the tour boat
04-View from the tour boat
05-Hungarian National Gallery from the tour boat
06-Hungarian National Gallery from the tour boat
07-Elizabeth Bridge. On the left, the St Gerard memorial. On the hill, an ornate house on Orom Street.
08-Bishop of St. Gerard. The sculture is 7 meters tall.
09-National Gallery from Citadel Viewpoint. Behind is the spire of Mátyás church.
10-A series of staircases leads down from where the girls are standing to the National Gallery grounds and entrance.
11-Gallery entrance
12-Eugen Savoyai. Gallery entry at left
13-Eugen Savoyai, 1663-1736. Commander of the army that liberated Hungary from Turkish rule in 1686.
14-Disz (Parade) Square and Tarnok Street. Although the name and statue indicate a military function, this was the site of a medieval market.
15-Hussar statue, Disz Ter (Parade Square)
16-Facade on Tarnok Street
17-Tarnok Street, looking toward Trinity Square, the highest point of Castle Hill.
18-Holy Trinity Square. The Holy Trinity column was built by Buda's Council (early 1700s) as a memorial to those who died in the plague of 1691.
19-Clock tower on Buda Town Hall (18th century) faces the Holy Trinity Square.
20-Looking back (downhill) at National Gallery from Tarnok Street
21-Sign: pharmacy, TEVA partner
22-Pharmacy sign at Tárnok Street 18. Building used by Golden Eagle Pharmacy, 1750-1913.
23-Sign: antiques
24-Trinity Square, Mátyás Church, Fisherman's Bastion (Google maps)
25-Holy Trinity statue and square, Mátyás Church. Officially "Church of Our Lady," its popular name is after Good King Mátyás who ordered construction the original southern tower.
26-Entry
27-Mátyás roof and steeples
28-Mátyás church steeple cap
29-Mátyás Church steeples
30-Mátyás Church
31-Mátyás Church (telephoto from the Citadel). Following the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1541, the church became the city's main mosque.
32-Mátyás Church
33-Fishermen’s Bastion, located behind Mátyás Church, built 1895–1902, on a site where medieval castle walls had stood.
34-Fishermen's Bastion is made up of seven round towers symbolising the seven Magyar tribes that gave rise to the nation a thousand years earlier.
35-Fishermen's Bastion consists of a white rampart and flowing staircases along the eastern front of the Mátyás church.
36-Fishermen's Bastion
38-One of 7 towers, Fishermen's Bastion
39-Fishermen's Bastion
37-Fishermen's Bastion. During the Middle-Ages the fish-market was located next to the church, and the Fishermen’s Guild was responsible for defending the adjacent area. At the time of its construction, the Fishermen’s Bastion no longer had a defensive function.
40-Fishermen's Bastion
41-Dining under the colonnade at the Fishermen's Bastion
42-Diners at Fishermen's Bastion
43-Danube and Pest from Fishermen's Bastion
44-Music and dining at Fishermen's Bastion
45-Pest, across the Danube. Parliament dome (left); St. Stephen's dome (right).
46-Citadel bus stop and viewpoint (Google maps). Many of my telephoto shots are from that circular area at the top of the photo.
47-The Citadel (Google maps). Freedom monument (right arrow) and scenic viewpoint (left arrow)
48-The 14-meter high Freedom Monument (originally liberation monument, 1945) below Citadella, atop Gellert Hill. A woman holds a palm (originally an aircraft propeller) above her head.
