Monday, 29 August 2011

Once it was

… once it was a beautiful house, I am sure.

house_20110828_old1

With lovely details and ornaments.

house_20110828_old1a

Now it is falling apart … or perhaps going to be restored.

house_20110828_old1b

Many houses in Budapest looks like this one and some have been restored and looks awesome once again.

house_20110828_old1c

Most of the people owns their flats and some of the flats are the communities.

house_20110828_old1d

In the communist time they often splitted up the large apartments to let more people come and live in these houses. Most of the houses at that time started to fall apart because they were not cared of. A lot of things fell apart in Hungary during the communist area. That was a bad and very poor time in history.

I came here the first time in 1976 – very closed country at that time – now it’s open and piece by piece restored. At that time very few spoke English – they were not allowed to learn western languages. Now it’s no problem with the English.

The Hungarians have a country to be proud of and I love it – especially Budapest.

3 comments:

Evelyn S. said...

Oh, this building is so beautiful, and your photographs show it off so well!

orvokki said...

Very beautifull old buildning, but it is a pity when a beautiful decay.
Your fotos ar fabulous.

Pradeepa said...

What wonderful architecture. This building would have been a very beautiful one once. It still is.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...