Blue Hour on the Danube

A wintry dusk in the Hungarian capital creates blues and golds which shimmer on the mighty Danube. Fertile and strategically advantageous, there has been a settlement here since Celtic times. The Magyars built the fortified Óbuda high on the western hills, whilst the city of Pest developed later on the flat plains of the eastern bank. The Széchenyi Chain Bridge connected the two cities in 1849. It was Széchenyi’s book Világ which in 1831 coined the modern name, Budapest.