Budapest: A Cultural HistoryThe views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellrt Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with its mixture of late nineteenth century Historicist and early twentieth century Art Nouveau architecture, is still very much a turn of the century city. For more than fifty years prior to the Second World