Photos from Budapest -1

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Hungarian Parliament Building: the view from Buda hill across the Danube is dominated by the impressive neo-Gothic Parliament Building, modelled on London's Houses of Parliament

Royal Crown of St Istvan:  St Stephen's coronation crown is now the symbol of modern Hungary's statehood with legal judgments delivered in the name of the crown. It is displayed in the Parliament Building
National Assembly Hall:  the Chamber where the Hungarian Parliament sits, richly decorated with frescoes and gilding, but with all the modern electronic voting equipment befitting a 21st century parliamentary democracy Statue of Imre Nagy: one of the Soviet-backed Communist leaders of the early 1950s, Imre Nagy turned against the Party and led the 1956 Uprising. The brutal crushing of this attempt to free Hungary from the Warsaw Pact resulted in his arrest and execution in 1958
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