Day 49 - Buda and Pest, and the Citadel

As Judy mentioned in a comment post, Buda is the west bank and Pest is the east bank. It was funny cause when I was first reading the guide book, it mentioned Buda and I just thought that was a short pronounciation/abbreivation. But no, originally two seperate cities that were eventually joined together.

To some degree, Budapest is the 'whipping boy' of various invaders. In the last 800 years, they have been levelled to the ground something like 87 seperate times. Comes from all sides and kinda like being the meat in the sandwich. Thus the architecture is strange to take cause most of it has been rebuilt from the ground upwards in a past style.

First up today I wandered up to this citadel on top of the hill. Now there was ice on the stairs and the number of times I ended up on my back side was quite amusing (and cold in the end) as snow was falling lightly to hide the ice. The right hand side has a statute holding up something. Now depending upon which time Budapest has been invaded, will determine exactly what it is holding up - kinda recycling statutes.