Buda in Budapest, Hungary

Buda

Buda (pron. boo-dah) - today the part of Budapest
surrounded by hills on the right bank of the Danube,
at one time Buda was the royal residence which lay in
the Castle District
(Vár) and the hillsides of the Castle area.

Even at the unification of Budapest (1873), Buda was
till a humble baroque-style town (despite the fact that
it was nominally the capital city of Hungary) with a
predominantly German-speaking population (who,
being conservative and Catholic, as well as
German-speaking, vehemently protested against
unification with noisy and vulgar Pest).

Buda's character begun to change only at the turn of the last century when the grand bourgeoisie got rid of the vineyards on
the slopes of Rózsadomb to build themselves villas, while the petit bourgeoisie moved into the new apartment houses
(bérház) that sprung up along the wide roads in the seams of the valleys.

In the sixties, the face of Buda changed once again, when the (then) young intelligentsia, whose lifestyle was gradually
improving, built co-ops (társasház) on the hillsides facing the Danube.

From: Istvan Bart, Hungary & the Hungarians. The Keywords

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