Visualizzazione post con etichetta Hungary. Mostra tutti i post
Visualizzazione post con etichetta Hungary. Mostra tutti i post

mercoledì 26 settembre 2012

374 - Postcard from Hungary (Thanks Katalin)


Budapest - Parliament
Similar to the Palace of Westminster, the Parliament Building is in the Gothic Revival style.
Construction from the winning plan was started in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of the country in 1896, and completed in 1904. (The architect of the building went blind before its completion.)

venerdì 31 agosto 2012

248 - Postcard from Hungary (thanks Zsolt)

Puszta (Hungarian pronunciation: [pustɒ]) is a grassland biome on the
Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld) around the River Tisza in the eastern part of Hungary as
well as on the western part of Hungary and in the Austrian Burgenland.
The Hungarian puszta is an enclave of the Eurasian Steppe, an isolated
outpost ofthe great "Russian steppe".
It covers a total area of ca. 50,000 sq.km (20,000 sq.mi).
The characteristic landscape is composed of treeless plains, saline steppes
and salt lakes, and includes scattered sand dunes, low, wet
forests and freshwater marshes along the floodplains of the ancient rivers.