For a fun night out in Budapest, you could do worse than head to the city’s Jewish quarter. In crumbling old buildings and hidden courtyards, you find the famous ruin bars. These lively drinking spots started out as temporary, pop-up venues in abandoned apartment blocks and other structures, […]
Taking a slow lift ride into the basement of 60 Andrassy Avenue, Hungary’s tragic recent past quickly becomes apparent. Once the doors close, black and white footage on a TV shows a man vividly describing what happened to those that opposed the government – and the role played […]
By Oliver Clark, in Budapest In 896AD the Magyars, a host of nomadic tribesmen from Siberia and the ancestors of today’s Hungarians, first arrived in what is today Budapest and decided it seemed a good place to make their home. And travelling around the Hungarian capital on a […]
Past In The Present 