Hungary

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In the course of the one thousand year; since the Hungarian people settled in the Danube Baiin, the world has had many different images of Hungary. Hungary ha-i been the workshop of European aviluauon dial adopted and added 1 lunf,nnan motifs to the art of the Romanesque and Gothic period, it then created i Ren-ijs-sance culture producing masterpieces cast of the Mps for the first tinit. It has been a counirj- srn.ií;gUní: against, .ind almost complcicij de\ astaied by Mongol and Turkish onslaughts, a country whose great thinkers raised the tormeatmg vision of a nation's death. However, Hungary sur^dved, and gave such intellects to the world as Ferenc Liszt, Béla B.irtók and Zoltán Kodály. This book prescat&í KS; a many-faced and "colourful country, and while it guides llie ri ider through Hungary's towns and provinces it also shows how past and present live together, how the creations of one thousand years add colour to today's modern tendencies. The book begins with a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Wm
WsP
In the course of the one thousand year; since the Hungarian people settled in the Danube Baiin, the world has had many different images of Hungary. Hungary ha-i been the workshop of European aviluauon dial adopted and added 1 lunf,nnan motifs to the art of the Romanesque and Gothic period, it then created i Ren-ijs-sance culture producing masterpieces cast of the Mps for the first tinit. It has been a counirj- srn.ií;gUní: against, .ind almost complcicij de\ astaied by Mongol and Turkish onslaughts, a country whose great thinkers raised the tormeatmg vision of a nation's death. However, Hungary sur^dved, and gave such intellects to the world as Ferenc Liszt, Béla B.irtók and Zoltán Kodály. This book prescat&í KS; a many-faced and "colourful country, and while it guides llie ri ider through Hungary's towns and provinces it also shows how past and present live together, how the creations of one thousand years add colour to today's modern tendencies. The book begins with a historical survey that gives an account of the most significant events in Hungarian history, together with their European background. This is followed by the presentation of Budapest, the country's characteristic regions and villages, old and new towns of the Danube Bend, Transdanubia, the Great Plain and, finally. Northern Hungary. The text is illustrated by photographs of the inedieval churches, fortresses, monasteries that have only recently been saved from complete ruin by monument conservation, providing thereader with a fuller picture of Hungary.
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