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Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Cesky Krumlov, Prague, Dresden and Berlin
hangchoi:
Just back from a trip to various cities in East Europe..........
Budapest is in fact a name come from two cities, Buda and Pest. These two cities is divided by the Duna River..............
The left side of the photo is the Old Buda city and the right side Pest. The Parliament building is on the coast of the Duna River....
hangchoi:
Budapest.....Most of the old cities in Europe have a Palace for the King and a Theatre and Church were built next to the Palace. Nowadays, most of these building are converted into National Gallary, Art Museum, Theatre, etc., which reserved most of the cultures of their country......
The first one was the Palace but now a National Gallary, while the second one is the Church where most of the Hungarian King got their monarchy.....
hangchoi:
Vienna - the capital of Music..........Really like their buildings with classic style.....some Greek some Roman......but with some modern art......
The first pic is the Hundredwasser which is a public housing building designed by a modern artist Hundredwasser ("hundred water") I don't really appreciate it however.....seems it is a bit unmatched with the classic atmosphere ........
The second one is the Helden Platz where Hilter had given a speech there just before WW2.......
hangchoi:
Your theme for visiting Vienna must be something about music.......They have a number of statues of important musicians / composers there......
Beethoven, Mozart and Johann Strauss......The statue of Strauss is gold-plated by Japanese because they like his music very much.......but I don't like that shiny gold colour......
The second pic is the Parliament building of Austria, a classic Greek building........
hangchoi:
Still in Vienna, Maria Theresa was the most influencial figure in East Europe as she affected the region for a few centuries.....
You can see quite a lot of her statues in East Europe, like the one shown in first pic........
A Palace again in Vienna.....Schonbrunn ....it is very much like the one in French......Versailles......but this one is smaller.....tho still big.....
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