Elisabeth Bridge from Citadella - Budapest, Hungary (July 8, 2018)

 

 

The view of Elisabeth Bridge from Citadella

치타델라에서 바라본 엘리자베스 다리

 

한국인 관광객들과는 다르게 외국(?) 관광객들은 여행을 참 여유롭게 하는 것 같습니다.  한참을 앉아서  멍때리다 가는 사람들도 있고, 앉아서 오손도손 대화를 하는 관광객들도 있고... 아무튼 한국인들처럼 여러 스팟을 미션을 수행하듯 사진찍고 바쁘게 떠나는 그런 여행을 하지 않는 것 같습니다.  물론 어디에나 그런 사람들은 있겠지만....

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadella

Citadella - Wikipedia

The Citadella is the fortification located upon the top of Gellert Hill in Budapest, Hungary.  Citadella is the Hungarian word for citadel, a kind of fortress.  The word is exclusively used by other languages to refer to the Gellert Hill citadel which occupies a place which held strategic importance in Budapest's military history.

 

The fortress was built in 1851 by Julius Jacob von Haynau, a commander of the Austrian Empire, and was designed by Emmanuel Zitta and Ferenc Kasselik, after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.  It occupies almost the entire 235 metres high plateau.  The fortress is a U-shaped structure built about a central courtyard, being 220 metres long, 60 metres wide, and 4 metres tall.  It had a complement of sixty cannons.

 

Actually built by Hungarian forced labourers, it was finished in 1854.  In June 1854 Austrian troops settled in the citadel.  After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and the establishment of Austria-Hungary, the Hungarians demanded the destruction of the Citadel, but the garrison troops left only in 1897, when the main gate was symbolically damaged.  It was not until late 1899 when the city took possession of the Citadel.  A few months later, in 1900, the walls were demolished.

 

In the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Soviet troops occupied the Citadella and fired down into the city during the assault that overthrew the Nagy-led Hungarian government.

 

겔레르트 언덕 정상에 있는 요새로, 1848년 합스부르크 제국이 헝가리의 독립운동을 진압하고 1851년에 세운 요새라고 한다.