Welcome to Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary and has 1,7 mio inhabitants.

The enchanting city is directly located on the Danube river under a geographic tectonic break line. That's the reason of Budapests rich offer on thermal springs.

The Hungarian capital has a dry continental climate. Its internal layer and the protective effect of the mountains is the reason of the cold winters and moderate warm summers.

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The history of Budapest starts in the year 89 with a foundation of the settlement named "Aquincum" by the Romans.

The founder were Romans, but the inhabitants of the settlements had Celtic origin. Between 106 to the end of the 4th century, Aquincum was the capital of the Roman province Pannonia. The settlement was located directly on the natural border Pannonias, the Danube river.

The decline of the Roman Empire at the end of the 4th century left traces in Aquincum as well. New peoples arrived from the east. Some of them without peaceful nature. Aquincum was destoyed. The following centuries were rich on conflicts, tears and blood.

As late as in the year 896 Hungarian came to the place and brought peace. The Hungarians settled in the whole area of the Pannonian Basin.

By the crowning of Stephan the first to the first king of Hungary in 1000/1001, the Hungarians were able to increase their lead. Only the Mongolians were able to beat the Hungarians and take their power away. But only for a short time.

Later the area around Budapest was taken and occupied by Turkish soldiers. Budapest became the headquater for the Turkish governer. The Turks were dispelled by the Austrians and Budapest was now on controlled by the Austrian Empire. The inhabitants of Budapest had to pay very high taxes to the Austrian rulers.

In spite of that, Budapest became to one of the fastest growing cities in the 18th and 19th century.

The main reason for the growing of Budapest was the existance of a bridge in summertime. The bridge was combined with fixed boats across the Danube river.

A real bridge across the Danube river was finally built between 1839 and 1849. The bridge was named "Chain Bridge" and the first constant bridge in Hungary. The Chain Bridge is the best known bridge of nine in Budapest.

During the March revolution in 1848, Budapest was one of the main places. Hungarians wanted to fight against the Austrian leadership. Only with the help of Russia, Austria was able to defeat the Hungarian rebellion.

In spite of those incidents, the Austrian leaders started to respect Hungarians more. In the following years Hungary received a special status within the Austrian Empire, which came very close to independence.

Budapest was the city with the first subway on the European continent. Between the years 1840 to 1900 the number of inhabitants increase to sevenfold up to 730.000.

The defeat of the first world war motivated the Hungarians to leave the Empire with Austria, and accomplish the total independence in 1918.

Budapest consists of three former indepedent municipalities, which were united to Budapest in 1873. On the Eastern side of the Danube river "Pest", which takes two third of the whole urban area. On the western mountainous side "Buda" and "Obuda" (Old Buda) take the rest of the urban area.