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Budapest’s Rumbach Synagogue is lesser known than the nearby Grand Synagogue, but is no less appealing.
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The first time I saw the work of Zsolnay Porcelain Works was shortly after we moved to Budapest, up on Castle Hill. Our tour guide pointed out the 13th-century St...
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Nearly 70 percent of the buildings in Budapest were destroyed in 1945, when the Soviets fought the Nazis over control of the city. Despite that sad fact, much of the...
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“Its great courtyards and southern and western facades, which are not visible from the Danube and from the Pest side, have good 18th-century details and proportions, Baroque rather than classical,...
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A year ago, when my husband Allan asked me what I thought about moving from Los Angeles to Budapest, I must admit, I knew very little about Hungary and its...
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When Gresham Palace opened in 1906, it immediately became the city’s most fashionable address. And its opulent façade served as a “discreet promotion” of the company’s financial strength.
