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• Kőleves Kert – All summer night’s dream
  

  Image by András Nagy Oh, hot summer days! Oh, endless summer nights! I wish they’d last forever. Outdoors, that’s where you should be now, in the shades or under the orange-black city skies. In a garden of the “Kazinczy street pub axis”: Kőleves Kert. A fine example for utilizing an empty, deserted site other than [...]

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• Újpest market – Smalltown cavalcade
  

  Image by András Nagy True, Újpest is a bit out of centre, it looks like a small town in the countryside with dusty wattles on the side of the road. But this is just the thing which gives it its charm and the true local feeling. You can be sure, there are no tourists around, [...]

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• Rózsavölgyi Chocolate – Sweet dreams
  

  Image by András Nagy Handmade quality chocolate, all forms and tastes that a real connoisseur can dream of. Pralines and table chocolates are just the top of the iceberg. Personally I am a big fan of (dark) chocolates, I don’t even want to hide my enthusiasm. The shop is really small where the design and [...]

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• Wekerle Estate – A village in the city
  

  Image by András Nagy Wekerle Estate is a calm, green island in the rushing city, the living example of the garden city movement, with the added spice of Károly Kós‘s “Transsylvanian style”. Some of Budapest’s biggest roads frame the area, but heavy traffic luckily avoids these neat streets. The end of the 19th century saw [...]

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• Inner courtyards – Gangs are in town
  

  Image by András Nagy Gang is a German loanword in Hungarian meaning the open corridor that can be found in most of the houses in downtown Budapest. The typical „gang house” was built from the second half of the 19th century to the 1920s-30s and originally served as an apartment building with big flats. Communist [...]

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