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Bruce Stangeland's Photographs from June, 2007 Elderhostel Trip to Prague and Budapest, with a stopover in Wengen, Switzerland
 
Part II Budapest

Prague - Part I   |   Wengen - Part III
 
 
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	Opera House on Andrássy Avenue - Budapest		Doorway on Andrássy Avenue - Budapest
	Doorway to Budavari Labirintus (labyrinths) on Street of Aristocrats, Castle Hill - Budapest		Interior of Matthias church, Castle Hill - Budapest
	Statue of St. Stephen at Fishermen's Bastion - Budapest		View of parliament from Fishermen's Bastion - Budapest
	St. Stephen, crowned king of all the Magyars in 1000 - Budapest		Glazed tile roof of Matthias church near Fishermen's Bastion - Budapest
	Parliament along Danube River from Castle Hill - Budapest		View from Castle Hill (Buda side of the river) overlooking th Chain Bridge and the Pest side of the city
	The archangel Gabriel atop column at Heroes' Square - Budapest		Chiefs of the 7 Magyar tribes who united to form Hungary - Heroes' Square - Budapest
	Basilica at Esztergom		Interior of basilica at Esztergom, where Franz Liszt performed his Requiem in 1871
	View of the archbishop's palace and beyond to the Danube and Slovak Republic - from Esztergom basilica		A renaissance musician (playing two recorders) outside Esztergom basilica
	Door to Margit Kovács Ceramics Museum - Szentendre		Chapel in Szentendre
	Old doorway in Szentendre		Town Square of Szentendre
	Chain Bridge over Danube River - Budapest See my painting of this scene		Side view of St. Stephen's Basilica - Budapest
	Interior of St. Stephen's Basilica (with military wedding in progress) - Budapest		Interior of St. Stephen's Basilica (close-up of military wedding in progress) - Budapest
	Arch of swords for wedding couple outside St. Stephen's Basilica - Budapest		Weddiing couple in their Cadillac outside St. Stephen's Basilica - Budapest
	Main entrance of St. Stephen's Basilica - Budapest		Four Seasons Gresham Palace Hotel (6 stars) at Kossuth Square - Budapest
	Lobby of Four Seasons Hotel - Budapest		Art nouveau furnishings in lobby of Four Seasons Hotel - Budapest
	Glass and tile mosaics on urn in lobby of Four Seasons Hotel - Budapest		Folk dancers in Kossuth Square, outside parliament building - Budapest
	"Summer on Chain Bridge" - a weekly festival on the bridge during summer. Lions guard the bridge - Budapest		Relaxing below Castle Hill - Budapest
	Parliament building along the Danube (largest building in Hungary - Budapest		A potter selling her wares on the Chain Bridge - Budapest
	Doorway at 28 Király utca (street) - Budapest		Side of Dohány Street Synagogue (second in size only to Temple Emanu-El in New York City) - Budapest
	"Tree of Life", a stainless steel memorial to Holocaust victims (shaped like an inverted menorah), Dohány Street Synagogue - Budapest		Interior of Dohány Street Synagogue - Budapest
	Exterior of Dohány Street Synagogue, built in Byzantine-Moorish style in mid 1800s - Budapest See my painting of this scene		13th century Reformed church and preserved village homes - Ócsa, on the Great Hungarian Plain See my painting of this scene
	Country kitchen at folk museum in village of Ócsa		77-year old woman showing off her embroidery in preserved village of Ócsa I included this woman in my painting
	Old synagogue (now an office building) - Kecskemét		art nouveau "Painted Palace" and statue in homage to Belá Bartok - Kecskemét
	Art nouveau Town Hall (1894) - Kecskemét		Painted Palace and, on the right, Calvinist church and school - Kecskemét
	City council chambers inside Town Hall - Kecskemét		Zoltán Kodály Institute and International Postgraduate Music School (Kodály was born in Kecskemét in 1882.) - Kecskemét
	Garden at Kodály Institute - Kecskemét		József Katona Theater - Kecskemét
	St. Stephen's Basilica at night - Budapest		St. Eugene Choir from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, performing inside St. Stephen's basilica - Budapest
	Art nouveau entrance to the zoo in Budapest		Lobby of Széchenyi Spa Baths - Budapest
	Fine Arts Museum at Heroes' Square - Budapest		Exterior of Dohány Street Synagogue at night - Budapest