This is the recently renewed Pesti Vigadó building viewed from the Danube. The state-owned building is under protection and it’s located at one of the most prestigious places, the Vigadó tér.
I had some pictures published of this building cluster of the Erick Van Egeraat studio 3 months ago when I started up this blog. Being a fan and not being able to take good picture lately, I’m publishing an old one of one of my favorite architecture themes of Budapest.
I’m still unable to post decent city photos so all I can do is either pick older pictures or keep posting wine labels. Today, once again, I decided to do the latter.
This wine is not that good btw (scored 3), so check my wine blog to find out about good Hungarian wines.
Lately I haven’t been able to take pictures in the city. All I can do is posting photos taken at home about wine bottles. Why not? These can be pretty and as you can see even cute, they can be found in huge quantities in my flat and they photograph well. So here they are, [...]
This photo was taken in the heart of Budapest: 300 meters from Chain Bridge, from Szt. István Basilica, 100 m from Andrássy street. It’s a socialist realist nightmare. Kind of cool though.
Bországgyűlés is a yearly wine and food outdoor exhibition and fair following the Pannon Bormustra, a rather important national wine contest. “Full” coverage of the event is published on my Hungary Wine Reviews Blog, so let’s focus to the venue here. This is the smaller version of the Vajdahunyad castle of Romania, Transylvania to be [...]
Another typical building from the late XIXth, early XXth century Budapest. These houses can still be found in big number in the ravaged VIIIth district. The area is more lucky than its neighbour IXth disctrict which has been undergoing block rehabilitation programmes in the past decade. In practice this meant destruction of stylish old buildings [...]
This is the facade of the old Hungária Fürdő in Dohány utca (in the VIIth district), an old spa which has been abandoned for decades now. Its day are probably counted, as this area is one of the most hit by the destructive expansion of new property developments by corrupt national and international property developers. [...]
I took this photo for the citydailyphoto.com theme day (monthly theme: corner shop).
Since I’m currently in Barcelona (yep, Primavera sound), I decided to post a photo from Barcelona which complies with this month’s theme (Hungarian corner shops are not that interesting anyway, trust me). So here it is.
Greetings from this fantastic city and sorry for [...]
