Municipality of Budapest

In the narrow park, to the left as well as the right, you can occasionally see the shimmer of the Danube, between the almost too pretty flower beds, between the upper and lower restaurants, where it is our custom to be children and to grow oldsays Antal Szerb in his guide to Budapest for...

Borítóján, és oldalsó lapélein foltosság.

The townscape evoked here is that of Pest in the first four decades of the nineteenth century. People wandering in the streets of present-day Pest crowded with pedestrians and vehicles would find it hard to believe that one and a half centuries ago this city was a quiet, intimate place. While these...