num_pages: 240
description: Budapest dramatically situated on the Danube is a city that makes an immediate impression on a visitor. It exhibits all the scale grandeur and excitement of a major capital yet it is a city absorbed by nostalgia and openly scarred by its history. A travelers enjoyment of the city will nodoubt benefit from a fuller understanding of Budapests rich and idiosyncratic culture. A Cultural Guide is a personal and informative introduction to Budapest mingling history with anecdote exploring past and present.Travel writer Michael Jacobs begins his cultural guide with lively essays interwoven with some of the author's own experiences dealing with key aspects of the city's life history and culture. Jacobs also includes a series of six walks arranged by district enabling visitors to experience thecity's evolution for themselves and featuring all the major sites and a personal selection of less well-known often neglected ones. Rich photos provide an introduction to Budapests beauty for the armchair traveler and detailed maps plot out the nuances that make this Eastern European city one ofthe most popular tourist sites of the 1990s.
language: English
title: Budapest: A Cultural Guide
publisher: Oxford University Press