Budapest beer bottle shaped metal souvenir bottle opener with silhouette of Hungary

## Budapest (beer bottle)

**Beer bottle** shaped metal souvenir bottle opener with **Budapest** inscription, the **coat of arms** and the **silhouette of the country**. The word **beer** also appears at the very top of the opener, just underneath the crown cap.

Inside the silhouette some of the most famous sights of Budapest appear:

* the **Parliament Building** (Hungarian: *Országház*, which translates to *House of the Country* or *House of the Nation*), the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, a notable landmark of Hungary, and a popular tourist destination in Budapest. It is situated on Kossuth Square in the Pest side of the city, on the eastern bank of the Danube. It was designed by Hungarian architect *Imre Steindl* in neo-Gothic style and opened in 1902. It has been the largest building in Hungary since its completion;
* the **Széchenyi Chain Bridge** (Hungarian: *Széchenyi lánchíd*), a chain bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It was designed by English engineer *William Tierney Clark* and built by Scottish engineer *Adam Clark*, and it was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Hungary. It was opened in 1849;
* the **Fisherman's Bastion** (Hungarian: *Halászbástya*), one of the best known monuments in Budapest, located in the Buda Castle, in the 1st district of Budapest. It is one of the most important tourist attractions due to the unique panorama of Budapest from the Neo-Romanesque lookout terraces. The Fishermen's Bastion's main façade, parallel to the Danube, is approximately 140 meters long. Its seven high-pitched stone towers symbolize the seven chieftains of the Hungarians who founded the country in 895;
* along with these notable icons, a **panorama of the city** can be seen in the foreground.

## Trivia

**Budapest** is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about 525 square kilometres (203 square miles). Budapest is both a city and county, and forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area (a population of 3,303,786, comprising 33% of the population of Hungary).

The **coat of arms of Hungary** was reinstated on 3 July 1990 after the end of communist rule. The arms have been used before, both with and without the Holy Crown of Hungary, sometimes as part of a larger, more complex coat of arms, and its elements date back to the Middle Ages. The shield is split into two parts: the *Dexter* (right side from the bearer's point) features the so-called Árpád stripes, four Argent (silver) and four Gules (red) stripes. Traditionally, the silver stripes represent four rivers: Duna (Danube), Tisza, Dráva, and Száva. The *Sinister* (left side from the bearer's point) consists of an Argent (silver) double cross on Gules (red) base, situated inside a small Or (golden) crown, the crown is placed on the middle heap of three Vert (green) hills, representing the mountain ranges (trimount) Tátra, Mátra, and Fátra.

## See also

* Budapest dog-shaped metal souvenir bottle opener
* Heineken green multifunctional bottle opener
* Other souvenir bottle openers in our collection
* Other beer bottle shaped bottle openers in our collection