Mobile version
Mobile version
(Optimized for small screen devices)
Quick search
Please select a map!
What would you like to do?
Only when clicking
Click on the map!
(or additional options available below the map)
(or additional options available below the map)
Tourism regions
Neighbouring countries
Much more photos (a total of 165 panoramic images) :
Online guidebook - Information, short stories, interesting facts
Budapest, HungaryThe two large cast-iron dragon statues in the Budapest Zoo are much older than they seem, and their story is quite adventurous as well.
Actually there are three of them and they were created in 1856 in the Schlick Iron Foundry by the plans of Frigyes Feszl. Initially they stood at the Pest-side end of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, at one of the gates of the Danube Steamship Company ("Duna Gőzhajózási Társaság") close to the Danube bank. When the embankments were rebuilt they were moved...
Continue reading
Mogyoród, HungaryInterestingly in the case of a double rainbow the colors of the fainter secondary arc are in reversed order compared to the colors of the primary arc. However, this can be seen only in exceptional circumstances, because the secondary arc of the rainbow is always much fainter. The phenomenon is formed on sufficiently large water drops, when the rays of light reflect one more time, on the inner surface of the water droplets.The reflection causes the opposite order of the colors, and because the...
Continue reading
Budapest, HungaryBertalan Farkas (the first and still the only one Hungarian cosmonaut who had been in the space) took a miniature replica of the Liberty Statue of Budapest (in Hungarian "Szabadság-szobor") with himself to the Earth orbit in 1980, during the Soyuz-36 mission of the soviet Intercosmos program. The co-astronaut and commander of "Berci" Farkas was the Russian Valeri Kubasov, as well as the Hungarian backup astronaut was Béla Magyari, but finally he never flew into space.
The main figure...
Continue reading
More stories, curiosities and interesting facts:
Online guidebook - Photo album
Much more photos (a total of 30,494 photos and 522 galleries) :
Guidebook: Countries
Guidebook: Countries
Regions of Hungary
Regions of Hungary
Address of this page
Address of this page
This page is also available at this link:
https://www.panadea.com/home
Add to Favorites Add to Bookmarks
https://www.panadea.com/home
Add to Favorites Add to Bookmarks
Recommend this page
Recommend this page
Share with your friends!
More options:
etc.
etc.
Photo album
Photo album
Much more photos:
Our travel guide contains:
Plenty of photos and panoramic images, with a lot of information and interesting facts.
- 214 travel destinations
- 165 panoramic images
- 30,494 other photos
Big collection of selected photos: excellent quality, high resolution and natural colors
This page in other languages:
About us - Legal notice & Disclaimer -
All rights reserved
- ©2010-2022
Neuronit Creative Studio - Mogyoród / Budapest / Hungary