Central European Image of Budapest

Budapest150 The Central European Image of the 150-year-old Hungarian Capital.

On the occasion of the 150. anniversary of Budapest’s official foundation (by merging Buda, Pest and Óbuda), this project intends to reveal, what kind of picture has been portrayed about Budapest in Czech, Slovak and Polish *belles-lettres *and travellogues.

How writers, artists, politicians, journalists wrote about the city? Has this urban landscape had some special color in the eyes of Czech writers or politicians – making a secret round-trip in the city in the interwar period -, or in the eyes of Slovak writer Svetozar Hurban-Vajansky – spending time in jail together with lumpen-aristocrats of Budapest?

As a result of our project, three leaflets were issued with a unique

collection of photos and images, selecting mostly from contemporary Slovak,

Czech, Hungarian publications. The leaflets can be available here online:

The Central European image of Budapest in the Slovak, Czech and Polish

belles-lettres

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The Central European image of Budapest in the Slovak, Czech and Polish

travel literature

<https://issuu.com/terrarecognita/docs/_the-central-european-image-of-budapest_ii_travel>

The Central European image of Budapest in the Slovak, Czech and Polish

historical consciousness

<https://issuu.com/terrarecognita/docs/_the-central-european-image-of-budapest_iii_histo>

Grant: International Visegrad Fund

Partners:
PL – Association Culture at the Borders
CZ – Vetrne Mlyny
SK – Civic Association Bratislavské rozky

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.