The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-12
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About l5O A. D the Romans found. ed their city Of Aquinicium, on che right bank Of the DanubQl in tho pro vince which later came % be known as Hungary Then in the Thirteenth century another town was started on the ieft bank of the river directly op. posite from Old AQuicimum, which had taken for itself the name Of Buda. and the nov town was called Pesth, With tho gradual growth Of the two towns pesth became the larger and in 1873 tbe two were united in one municipality known aa Budapest the capital Of Hungary
 City 10 of Rare Beauty.
 Budapest sayc De Rover "ia one of the most beautifully situated cities in Europe Nobody can ever forget the wonderful sight or the two sister towns divided by the wide and swift ly flowing Danube, with the steam CTS and barges on her waters. Buda, the old stronhold, is on one side with the fantastic 'cellert hill, which is Q formidable looking mass of rocks and caves; farther on is the lovely royal palace with It's beautifully kept gar dena ciinglng to the hillside; then the oldest part, called the stronhold which has been rebuilt exactly in the style Matthias Corvinus built it, and which was demolished during the Turkish invasion in 1926. Here is the old church of Matthias, also, but it is ao much renovated that 1t lacks the ap- pearance of age. Behind the smaller hills. larger ones are to be seen cover ed with shady woods; these are the villa regions and summer excursion palaces for the people.
 Along the Danube are green and shady islands Of which the most beau tiful Is st. Margaret's Isle, and on the other side of the waters Is the city of Pesth. with tho majestic houses of Parliament. Palace of Justice, Academy or Science. and numerous other fine buildings. At the present time four bridges join the two cities together, and Q huge tunnel leads through the first hill in Buda to another part of tho town. one cannot say which Is the most beautiful sight; to look from Pesth which stands on level ground, up to Che varying hilly landscape of Buda, or to look from the hillside of the latter place on the fairyland of PeBth, with the broad silver Danube receding in the distance like great winding snake It's scales an aglitter In the sunshine. It IS beautiful by day and stil more 80 at night for myr- iads of lights twinkle in the water and the hillsides are dotted with flit- ting fairy lamps Even those who are used to the slight look at 1t in speech less wonder and rapture.
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 Besides her splendid natural situa- ton, Budapest had another great treasure, and this is tho quantity Of hot sulphur springs which exist on both sides of the Danube. The Rom ans made use of them at the time of their colonization and we can find the ruins of the Roman baths of Aquic- inium half an hour out of Budapest During the Turkish rule many Turkish baths were erected in Buda. The Ru- dah bath exists to this day, and with It's modernized system is one of the most popular Csaszar bath, St. Lux acs bath both in Buda, have an old established reputation for the splendid cures of rheumatism A new bath has been recently in the process Of con struction where hot sulphur oozes up in the middle of the park Something of the same sort is to be found in St. Margaret's Isle.
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