Continuing our new series Pictures of Budapest, we look at the city’s historic villas. Preserving centuries of stories involving aristocrats, artists and politicians, they also tell us a little about Budapest’s bourgeois past. Even if social history isn’t your thing, the western slopes of Gellért Hill, the leafy avenues of Zugló and well-to-do Rózsadomb are wonderful to walk around just sightseeing, taking in the fresh air and elegant panorama.
If the villa neighbourhoods of Budapest
are worth exploring all year round, the greenery of the surrounding gardens in
summer hides the smaller details visible between the barren branches of
winter. Our photographers roamed hills and avenues to captusre these many
façades.