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Budapest Bridges (hidek): Bridges of Budapest
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  • HORSCHECK
  • Updated By HORSCHECK on August 22, 2005
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  • Szabadsag hid (Freedom Bridge) - Budapest
    Szabadsag hid (Freedom Bridge)
    by HORSCHECK
    Budapest is famous for its Danube bridges. Buda on the western bank and Pest on the eastern bank of the river are united by these bridges.The main bridges in the city centre from north to south are:
    Arpad hid and Margit hid at the Margaret Island, the famous Szechenyi Lanchid (Chain Bridge), the white Erzsebet hid (Elisabeth Bridge) and the forest-green Szabadsag hid (Freedom Bridge).

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): Szecheny Lanchid at night
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  • DPando
  • Updated By DPando on April 14, 2006
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  • Budapest Bridges (hidek) - Budapest
    by DPando, 1 more photos
    This city is fill by Danibe river that splits the city in two, but joining it at the same time. Danube as sea in some other cities gives an other dimension and become a more beautiful city and a breath in the middle of huge streets and squares..
    About 6 bridges cross the Danube the most famous it is (on this pic), but there are 2 more southern that deserve the visit, Erzs?bet and Szabads?g Hid (or bridge)

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): Erzsebet hid
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  • By DPando on November 30, 2005
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  • Budapest Bridges (hidek) - Budapest
    by DPando
    Southwards from the most famous brige (Szechenyi) there is this dark green one who runs from Gellert area in Buda to central streets in Pest and further away to Rakozci and Keleti
    It was my fault i didnt see Gellert but i walk at night from Deli station to this bridge, where by the way if you need to take the bus is just after crossing to Pest almost under the bridge, so i saw some former buildings beneath wester side buda castle , a different point of usual view ..always from the river and Pest side!

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): Szechenyi Lanchid, The Chain Bridge
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  • Updated By croisbeauty on November 14, 2004
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  • Szechenyi Lanchid - Budapest
    Szechenyi Lanchid
    by croisbeauty
    There are several bridges across the Danube river, Szechenyi Lanchid is the most famous among them.
    The Chain Bridge is the central point of Budapest, connecting two parts of the town Buda and Pest.
    The construction begun in 1839 upon Count Istvan Szechenyi's initiative and the English engineer T.W.Clark produced the designs. His namestake Adam Clark was in charge of the work, which took ten years.

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): The Liberty bridge (Szabadsag hid)
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  • Updated By aramat on February 3, 2007
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  • The Liberty bridge - Budapest
    The Liberty bridge
    by aramat
    The Liberty bridge opened in 1896, in the year of the Hungarian Millennium. Its green metal structure makes it quite different from all the other Budapest bridges. The bridge connects Gellert ter in Buda (where you find the Hotel Gellert and the Gellert Spa) and the Fovam ter in Pest (with the Central Market Hall, a great place to shop for food, and the Budapest Corvinus University, where I got my degrees :-)).

    Oh, I almost forgot: Liberty bridge is quite popular with suicidal people. About 30 people climb up to the 'turul' birds each year to commit suicide (although practically all of them change their mind on the top, and firefighters have to bring them down, closing down the bridge and stopping traffic in half of the city at the same time).

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): see the bridges along the...
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  • By Fam_Stoica on September 12, 2002
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  • Budapest Bridges (hidek) - Budapest
    by Fam_Stoica
    see the bridges along the Danube; there are several famous bridges in Budapest : Chain Bridge (the first permanent bridge connecting the two cities Buda and Pest), Elizabeth Bridge (379 m length), Liberty Bridge (inaugurated in 1894 by the Emperor Franz Joseph), Margaret Bridge.

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): A walk across the Danube
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  • By aramat on February 3, 2007
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  • The Chain Bridge from the Tunnel (Alagut) - Budapest
    The Chain Bridge from the
    Tunnel (Alagut)
    by aramat
    Budapest is divided by the Danube and although it's possible to go from Buda to Pest (or back) by metro, it's so much nicer to walk across one of the bridges.

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): Danube and great bridges
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  • Updated By Raimix on August 21, 2005
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  • Chain Bridge at night - Budapest
    Chain Bridge at night
    by Raimix

    Budapest bridges are objects that really dominate in all town panoramas. some of them are the "must see" places, like Chain Bridge, Margarita Bridge.

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): Szabadsag hid (Liberty Bridge)
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  • By Gentleman75 on May 4, 2005
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  • Szabadsag hid (Liberty Bridge) - Budapest
    Szabadsag hid (Liberty Bridge)
    by Gentleman75
    Szabadsag hid was built in 1896 to the Millennium. Its original name was Ferenc Jozsef hid. Franz Josef was the kaiser of the Monarchy that time. The Kaiser drove the last nail into the bridge.

    The bridge was explosed in the WWII, but after that is was rebuilt by the original plan and named to Szabadsag hid.

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    Budapest Bridges (hidek): 15th March - Revolution & Independence War of 1848
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  • Updated By Gentleman75 on April 29, 2005
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  • Chain Bridge (Lanchid) - Budapest
    Chain Bridge (Lanchid)
    by Gentleman75
    The Chain Bridge (Lanchid) on 15th March. 15th March is a National Holiday in Hungary to the memory of Revolution and Independence War of 1848-1849.
    On back, You can see a part of the Buda Castle and the funicular which brings You up/down to/from the Buda Castle.

    In front, there is our "national lion" and on back, our "national bird", called Turul, tries to fly away.

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