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| The whole ridge is a beautifully maintained park setting crisscrossed with walking paths. |
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| The Hungarians love their children. In Post-Communism years they had a very low birth-rate, but now they are one of the most pro-family and child-friendly countries in the world. We saw playgrounds everywhere, in use. |
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| This is Communist era relic, visible from almost everywhere in the city. |
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| A park path |
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| A view from the ridge along the Danube river |
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| Heroic victory, Communist monumental sculptures |
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| Those are probably evil capitalists being defeated by the workers. |
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| Further on were these random bits of what look like Roman ruins, but they weren't. They were concrete reproductions, that were replaced by new ones in a castle courtyard. |
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| The ridge park |
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| Pretty turn-of-the-century buildings everywhere. That was when Hungary was reviving from long years of domination, by the Ottoman Turks, then the Hapsburg Empire, just before the Communist take over. |
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