Budapest (Hungarian pronunciation ), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Hungary. With about 1.7 million inhabitants (2009) Budapest is the largest city in ten of the European Union. The unit was created in 1873 by the Budapest municipality merger of formerly independent cities of Buda (German: Ofen), óbuda (German: Alt-oven) and plague. The name of Budapest itself appeared previously not occur in normal usage was Pest-Buda.
Geography
Geographical location
Budapest is situated on the Danube, which at this point, the Hungarian Central Mountains and leaves in the Hungarian lowlands flows. The highest point in Budapest is on the Buda Hills scoring 527 meters high mountain János (Hungarian Jánoshegy). More Buda Hills include the Gellért Hill, the Castle Hill (Várhegy), the Rose Hill (Rózsadomb), the Sonnenberg (Naphegy), the Eagle Mountain (Sashegy), the Oly1.mobi, the Martin Berg (Mártonhegy), the Schwabenberg (Svábhegy) and Váci utca. Geotectonic city is seen on a fracture, so Buda is particularly rich in thermal springs.
Climate
Because of the inland and the shielding effect of the mountains Budapest has a relatively dry continental climate with cold winters and warm summers. The average temperatures in January at -1 ° C and in July at 22 ° C. In the early summer rains are the heaviest recorded. The average rainfall is about 600 millimeters a year. Budapest panorama seen from the Buda side, center left the parliament building, right, the Chain Bridge, 2006
History
Budapest’s history starts at 89 with the founding of a Roman military camp in previously owned by the Celtic tribe of the Eravisker populated areas. As a result, the camp was built around the Roman settlement Aquincum, the 106-296 capital of the province of Pannonia Inferior was. Under Roman rule the city prospered, it can be a governor’s palace, several amphitheater and baths shown, was also vulnerable to the Roman Danube border, the city provided with a wall. At the end of the 4th Century, it came in the wake of migration increased incursions of Germanic and Hun-Alan tribes, after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of the migration moved here first Slavic population, but from 896 of Hungary, Uralic peoples, in the Pannonian Plain migrated, were displaced. 
The later 18 Years Old Christianized and sedentary become Hungary lived in villages with churches and operated farming and livestock breeding leather handbags. In the center of major traffic routes Pest gained increasing importance. Already at that time was on the Danube (approximately at today’s Elisabeth Bridge) is a lively ferry traffic to the opposite Buda. With the coronation of Stephen I 1000/1001 for the first king of Hungary , the Hungarians built their dominance from. With the invasion of the Mongols (Mongol invasion“) 1241 occurred after the battle of Mohi almost complete destruction. The royal residence was first to Visegrád laid. In 1308 the city was renewed Demo Joven in 1361 and capital of the kingdom. 1514 was a peasant uprising instead.
From 1446 the St Augustine of Hippo access Ottomans again in Hungary, which occupied the largest part of the country culminated in. Thus fell the plague in 1526 and the Buda Castle some 15 years later, protected by. The capital of the unoccupied Hungary, which almost exclusively from Upper Hungary (essentially what is now Slovakiawas), was from 1536 to 1784 Pressburg. While Buda seat of the Turkish Pasha was voted the plague was little more attention and lost a large part of its population. 
Eventually the Hapsburgs, the kings of Hungary in 1526 had been to expel the Ottomans and Hungary to restore. For the population of Buda and Pest changed but little, she was still maintained by strangers and had to pay very high taxes. The residents fought back in a uprising that was crushed but. Pest since 1723 was the seat of the administrative management of the kingdom. It was, despite the adverse conditions and a devastating flood in 1838 with 70,000 victims to one of the fastest growing cities in the 18th and 19 Century. 1780 German was the Hapsburgs as the official language introduced. This was done to better control flaring up again and again to the revolutionary movements. This one was also regularly called into the land of German settlers just the large populated areas of the city now. The heartland of the Croats, as the area of today’s Croatia was placed under Budapest.
One of the main reasons for the upswing of Budapest was the existence of a bridge in the summer, which consisted of boats fastened together. 
The Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Hungarian Lánchíd) here spans the Danube in Budapest. It was during the period 1839-1849 as the first permanent bridge at the suggestion of the Hungarian reformer Count István Széchenyi built. He was excited to do this when he had to wait weeks for an order of his father to the other side to come to the funeral. The Hungarian name it bears in his honor. It is the oldest and best known of the nine bridges over the Danube in Budapest. It was at its inauguration in 1849 the first bridge downstream from Regensburg.
During the Hungarian Revolution in 1848 Budapest was one of the main squares of the disturbances with which Hungary against the reformist oppression by the Habsburgs struggled to. Although the rebellion was finally with the help of Russia in bloodshed, but the ugg boots events of 1849 led indirectly to the 1867 countervailing between Austria and Hungary. Thus, Hungary was largely independent. Symbol of the annual compensation was several weeks stay Emperor Franz Joseph in Budapest. As King of Hungary, he lived in the Buda Castle and took in this time in Hungarian and a Hungarian uniform dress – - with the ministers of Hungary and the Royal Hungarian Reichstag its Hungarian offices true.
The pooling of Buda, óbuda and Pest was under the revolutionary government of Hungary in 1849 had been enacted. When the Habsburgs their power restored, they revoked that decision. It was not until 1872, five years after the Austro-Hungarian balance of 1867, it finally entered the union of the two halves of the city. This followed in 1870 the creation of a “Metropolitan Council of Public Works, and infrastructural development of the whole city should coordinate the construction.
For the millennium celebration of the “conquest” of Hungary (the so-called Millennium) in 1896 were related to the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest in 1896 a number of major projects, such as the Heroes’ Square and the first subway in continental Europe on completed. The population throughout the city sevenfold 1840-1900 and increased to around 730,000.
The lost World War I, the resulting loss of life, the withdrawal of Hungary from the Habsburg monarchy in 1918, and the huge territorial concessions to Hungary’s Budapest brought only a momentary setback. With the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost nearly three quarters of his empire territory.
In March 1919, formed briefly a Communist Soviet government under Béla Kun. Miklós Horthy as Secretary of War in Szeged educated conservative-reactionary opposition government took the fight against the regime of Béla Kun on. A military confrontation with the Soviet government failed Romania. Romanian troops occupied on 4 August 1919, the city and occupied large parts of Hungary. Many members fled the Soviet Government on 1 August in Vienna. Peidl Gyula was briefly prime minister.[3] After his victory Horthy put on the head of the conservative forces on 16 November 1919 in Budapest one. Miklós Horthy was the Regent (Regent, Hungarian: “kormányzó”) of Hungary, the Kingdom was not always.
The German uindy soccer camps occupation during the Second World War in Hungary fell about one-third of the Jewish population of 500,000 Hungarian victims. The German crew was taken on 19 March 1944 (Operation Margarethe) after the attempt of Hungary, allied to disengage from Germany itself. In Budapest the same year was U.S. and British bombing partially destroyed. The most devastation occurred, however, when Soviet forces by the end of December 1944 to February 1945 during the Battle of Budapest city, the besieged. The trapped German and Hungarian troops with louis vuitton handbags blew up in their retreat on the Buda side of the boiler all the bridges over the Danube. Budapest 38 000 civilians died during that time.
After the end of the war in 1946 was followed by the proclamation of the Republic and in 1949 the Proclamation of the People’s Republic of Hungary. 1956 Budapest was the starting point of the Hungarian uprising, after its bloody crackdown, it purges across the country came to be. On 23 October 1989 was proclaimed the Republic of Hungary in Budapest. This was in addition to other things, paved the way for the disintegration of the entire Soviet bloc. In 2000 found millennial anniversary celebrations of the founding of the state instead ungarnweit. On this occasion, the capital was also embellished. The park and the Cultural Millenáris Park and the Millennium district with the National Theatre were built. The Buda side of the Danube with the campus of the University of Technology has been modernized. The EU accession of Hungary in the first May 2004, many celebrations throughout the country, especially in the capital Budapest celebrated with.
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Demographics
Below are the population constituted by the respective lists. Until 1860, there are usually estimates and 2001 Census data and 2006 is an estimate of the Hungarian Central Office of Statistics. The figures before 1873 refer to the three cities of Buda, Pest and óbuda. Their final concentration on 17 November 1873, after the first merger on 24 June 1849 a short time had been undone again later.
The sharp increase in population 1949-1960 is due to the amalgamation of seven cities, and sixteen municipalities in the area. Thus, the population increased on 1 January 1950 to 582 000 persons to 1.64 million, the surface area of 206 square kilometers to 525 square kilometers, the number of districts from 14 to 22
Religions
| Religion | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1941 | 1949 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roman Catholic | 72.3% | 67.4% | 64.7% | 60.7% | 59.8% | 59.1% | 60.7% | 63.7% | 71.3% |
| Reformed | 4.8% | 6.1% | 7.4% | 8.9% | 9.9% | 10.9% | 12.1% | 13.6% | 15.5% |
| Lutheran | 5.3% | 5.5% | 5.6% | 5.3% | 5% | 4.8% | 5% | 5.3% | 5.4% |
| Jewish | 16.6% | 19.7% | 21% | 23.6% | 23.1% | 23.2% | 20.3% | 15.8% | 6.4% |
| other | 1% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 2% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1.4% |
Development of the ethnic composition
In the 15th Century, the population of Pest mostly Hungarian.[8] After the end of the Turkish occupation of Hungary was dominated by Germans especially Buda.[8]
- Plague
- 1715: about 2,500 inhabitants, of which 55.6% German, 19.4% Magyars (Hungary), 2.2% Slovaks, 22.8% other
- 1737: People v. AD, of which 57.8% German, 22.5% Hungarians, 5.6% Slovaks, 14.1% other
- 1750: 62 471 inhabitants, of which 55.2% German, 22.2% Hungarians, 6.5% Slovaks, 16.1% other
- Buda + Pest + óbuda, so Budapest
- 1851: 178 062 inhabitants, of which 56.4% German, 36.6% Hungarians, Slovaks, 5%, 2% other
- 1881: 370 767 inhabitants, of which 55.1% Hungarians, 33.3% German, 6% Slovaks, 2.8% other
- 1891: 506 384 inhabitants, of which 326 533 (67.1%) Hungarians, 115 573 (23.7%) German, 27 126 (5.6%), Slovaks, 5.6% other
- 2001: 1,777,921 inhabitants, of which 1,631,043 (91.2%) Hungarians, 18 097 (1%) German, 14 019 (0.8%), Roma (Gypsies), 4929 (0.3%) Slovaks …, 93 071 ( 5.2%) do not answer[1][9]
Management
Districts
The city has three separate cities, the municipality in 1873 Budapest was united to the first place.[10] On the eastern, flat side of the Danube is Pest occupies two thirds of the city area, on the western, hilly Buda side (dt oven) and óbuda (dt Alt-oven) and the remaining third of the city.
Districts
Budapest is divided administratively into 23 districts. 1 January 1950, the city was divided into 22 districts, the 23 (XXIII) was from the later 20th (XX) separated. Starting from the first district to the Castle District (Vár) the districts are numbered clockwise with Roman numerals, while the Danube repeatedly skipped.
History and Culture
Attractions
The main attractions of the city lie on the chanel handbags banks of the Danube. On the western, Buda side rises the rocky Gellert Hill to the Statue of Liberty and the Citadel. At the foot of the mountain lies the Hotel Gellért with thermal baths as well as further downstream from the main building of the Technical and Economics University. North of the Gellért Hill is the castle hill with the former royal castle. It now houses the National Library, the National Gallery and the Museum. Beside the castle is in the classical Sándor Palace the seat of the Hungarian president.
In the northern part of Castle Hill rises the Matthias Church and her way upstream on the Danube, the Fisherman’s Bastion. The Buda Castle and the Danube panorama since 1987 are on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site. Under the castle district runs a publicly accessible part labyrinth system.
On the eastern bank of the Danube, on the flat Pest side, rise the parliament building, the Academy of Sciences, several large hotels on the so-called Danube Promenade, the Pester Redoute (Ballroom), the Chanel Corvinus University (Business School), Budapest, and further south, the National Theater and the Palace of Arts.
The Danube is the real main attraction of Budapest and is within the city cityscape of nine bridges spanning. The most important, because the oldest and most famous landmark is the Chain Bridge.
From here, on the Pest side of the small ring to the Freedom Bridge, past the Great Synagogue, the National Museum and the Great Market Hall. The Great Synagogue in Dohány utca marks the entrance to the historic Jewish quarter of Budapest, between small and large ring. The small ring follows roughly the course of the previous Pest wall whose gates last end of the 18th Century were demolished. Remains of the wall still stand. Between the small ring and the Danube is the real center of Budapest. Runs parallel to the river with the Váci utca (Waiznergasse) is the oldest commercial street and shopping area of the city known today.
It connects the Great Market Hall with the V?r?smarty tér. North of downtown but still in the central 5th District area, rises the highest church building of Budapest, the St. Stephen’s Basilica.
The big ring was built between 1872 and 1906. He leads from the Pet?fi Bridge on the Margaret Bridge and is one of the most important architectural ensembles of his time in Europe. The located here Nyugati railway station (Western Railway Station) have in common with the Keleti railway station (Ostbahnhof) Certificate of large station architecture.
On the big ring, the sections of the name of St. Stephen and the adjoining districts Teréz, Erzsébet, József and Ferenc wear, there are several theaters (up to its demolition in 1965 was here, at the Blaha Lujza place the National Theatre) and many movie theaters, where some of the 1990s had to close by the end, as West railway station and other parts of the city that could attract more viewers on the multiplex cinemas. The ring is the octagonal square octagon from the Andrássy street crossed the center with the City Park connects.
The Andrássy street is still the most outstanding urban projects of the Hungarian capital. 
In only fourteen years, from 1871 to 1885, was built a 2.4 km long avenue that is lined with so-called residential palaces in historicism, the Hungarian State Opera, the Museum House of Terror, and several places on the Heroes’ Square leads, in turn, Kunsthalle and the Museum of Fine Arts is surrounded by. In the middle of the square are grouped around the Millennium Monument, the statues of fourteen kings of Hungary. South of the Heroes’ Square lies the elongated space of the 56-er, on which the memorial to the uprising of 1956 is. A large steel columns from different narrowing wedge pushes apparently coming from the City Park just below the surface of the square at the spot where in 1956 a statue of Stalin was toppled and the parades over decades to first May took place. 50 years after the uprising of 1956 the memorial was on 23 October 2006, at 19.56 clock unveiled.
Since 2002 the Andrássy street belongs to the World Heritage Site. Under it wrong the first Budapest underground, it is after the London Underground, the second oldest in Europe.
Further east of town, just behind the Heroes’ Square, located in City Park , the Vajdahunyad Castle, the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest was built in 1896 to the zoo, the circus, the Skating Rink and the Széchenyi Bath. In addition to the Gellért Bath, it is the most famous of Budapest’s thermal baths.
Outside the city center are located on the western bank of the Danube, the Roman settlement Aquincum and, more recently, the Sculpture Park (Szobor Park), with statues from the period of real socialism.
On the east bank of the memorial is located on the Danube bank Shoesthat the pogroms against Jews in World War II recalls.
Theater
The main theater is the Hungarian National Theatre Nemzeti Színházshort “Nemzeti” called that since 2002 in the Bajor Gizi Park is located. The most important stage of the country often had to change her seat. 1837-1908 was the first simple buildings in the then Kerepesi út, Rákóczi út today, opposite the Hotel Astoria. The original name was Pesti Magyar Színház (Pest Hungarian Theater). Since 1840, the theater is called Nemzeti Színház.
On Hevesi Sándor tér is the Színház Magyar (Hungarian Theater). For a young audience the ideas of the Katona József Theatre in the Pet?fi Sándor utca (this often works, the Hungarian director Tamás Ascher stage) and that of the Új Theatre (New Theatre) thought. An alternative venue for unusual theater projects is the theater of the Hungarian director Árpád Krétakör Schilling.
Musical and operetta friends like to visit the Operettszínház the “Hungarian Broadway ‘in the Nagymez? utca. A traditional theater is the Vígszínház (Comedy Theatre) on the Pest Körút page. Opera lovers will appreciate the more traditional staged performances of the Hungarian State Opera Magyar Állami Operaház, whose house on Andrassy út many similarities with the Vienna State Opera has.
Children are the performances of puppet Bábszínház also on Andrassy út, interesting. The most famous concert hall, the LibertyBallroom of the Academy of Music at the Liszt Ferenc Square. The modern equivalent to the modern acoustic demands Bartók Béla concert hall, near the National Theatre is located.
Museums
The most important art collection, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, is located at Heroes Square. Here is an antique collection, an old gallery, an Egyptian collection, a collection of 19th-20th Century, a Baroque sculpture collection, a collection of German, Austrian, Dutch and Flemish painting. Besides the permanent exhibitions exhibitions are regularly held by temporary international importance, such as the exhibition to Vincent van Gogh’s works in late 2006, huge crowds of visitors recorded the one had.
Opposite the museum is the Kunsthalle Budapest on modern art projects. The Hungarian painting in the National Gallery in the Royal Palace issued. The Budapest LudwigMuseum since 2005 in the Palace of Arts, near the new National Theatre is home to.
the corner Üll?i út and Ferenc körút in itself is the Art Nouveau building of the Museum of Applied Arts and on Kossuth Square, the Ethnographic Museum. Since 2004, located in the Páva Synagogue and the subsequent construction of István Mányi the Holocaust Documentation Center.
In addition to more than 30 museums, the cultural center of Hungary has many small galleries, mostly in the inner city or in the castle district of which are to be found.
Cultural events
Every year, two major cultural festivals in Budapest, under particular programs for lovers of classical music are offered in which: the Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Autumn Festival. For film lovers there is the Hungarian Film Festival in February and in April the Titanic International Film Festival, also an international theater festival. In August, the Island Festival “Sziget” many concerts, especially for young visitors with a place.
A new cultural center on the Buda side of the Millenáris Park, the 2000 Millennium celebrations on the occasion of the founding of the state in an old factory complex was built in years. Here concerts in the summer exhibitions and other cultural events take place. The playground has hand-carved, a folk tale taken from figures. Since October 2005, Hungarian also has the Children’s Museum Palace of Wonders a new home here.
Other recreational pursuits
The mountainous surroundings of Budapest offers many more possibilities as the picturesque town of Szentendre , north of Budapest and the castle in Gödöll?, the favorite of Queen and Empress Sissi. The Danube Bend extends to Esztergom. South of the city, on Csepel Island in Halásztelek rises the mast Lakihegy.
In the Buda hills, the highest point with 527 meters of the mountain is János, runs the children’s train. At the terminus of the railway children ends of the International Mountain Trail Eisenach-Budapest. The parks served with the city takes Margaret Island as a recreation area a central role.
Since 1984, the year will find the Budapest Marathon and Half Marathon instead of Budapest, where each of thousands of runners take part.
Economy and Infrastructure
Resident companies
A number of companies have their headquarters in Budapest, such as OAG Staatsdruckerei Hungary, Magyar Telekom, Zwack, ORION electronics, MOL, Icarus and Malév.
Retail
The main shopping streets of Budapest are in the 5th District (downtown). The most famous is the Vaci utca juicy couture outlet, in which all the major fashion labels in the world are represented almost. On Vörösmarty Square every year a Christmas market held that on the Rathausplatz is similar (here act the windows of the coffeehouse as Gerbeaud Advent Calendar).
Since the department store luxury on Vörösmarty Square in 2005 went into bankruptcy, there are hardly any traditional department stores. Known was the department store chain Skála that’s as relatively well-sorted in the 1970s could be called. At the site of the first Skála department store in the 11th District a modern shopping center was built in 2006.
Within and outside the city, large shopping centers on the American model (plazasbuilt), to the consumers other than a long range of opening times and catering services of all kinds offer. Furthermore Hypermarkets are large in-and outside the city is very popular. South of Budapest (in Budapest), there are some years after the model of the Shopping City Süd in Vösendorf (Austria) is a kind Shopping City. 2007 was the Arena Plaza to the Keleti railway station (Ostbahnhof), the largest mall in Central and Eastern Europe completed. Against the strong “guys with no iphones Americanization” there are citizens’ movements, the purchase of Hungarian products and promote the dissemination of the vast shopping centers refuse.
In the Budapest inner districts and in ralph lauren shopping centers is open on weekends and Saturdays until a maximum of 21 clock and clock on Sunday to 18. There are also a number of supermarkets that are open 24 hours a day and closed only on major public holidays.
Baths
The history of Budapest’s baths , a history of 2000 years back on. The Romans used the sources of the city. From the year 1178 there is evidence of a settlement in the area of today’s Felhéviz Óbuda – the name means “hot spring”. At the Gellért Hill, the source said Elisabeth (St. Elizabeth was the daughter of King Andrew). The rule of the Ottomans brought, among other things a different bathing culture in the city, the monuments of this period are still in use. In the 18 Century, after a decree of Maria Theresa began with the analysis of the mineral springs of the city deal. 1812 began on a proposal by Pál Kitaibel order to systematize the sources, he also wrote a hydrography of the city. 1930 Budapest was a city with the most healing sources of the title of “Spas“award.
The most important medicinal and outdoor swimming pools are: Csepeli (Outdoor) Csillaghegyi (Outdoor), Dagály (Medicinal and outdoor), Dandár (Spa), Gellert (medical, outdoor and adventure), Király (spa, Turkish bath), Lukács (spa, swimming pool, Turkish bath), Palatine (Heil and outdoor pools, Art Nouveau building on Margaret Island), Paskál (Outdoor), Pesterzsébeti (Outdoor), Pünkösdfürd?i (Outdoor), Római (outdoor and adventure), Rudas (spa, Turkish bath), Széchenyi (spa, swimming pool), Újpesti (Outdoor). Some of the bathrooms have a subculture: Knowledgeable men play in the Széchenyi Bath in warm water for hours on chess, the Lukács Bath is a traditional meeting place of actors and artists. The Palatinus, “Pala”, is a traditional bath for young people.
There are also many swimming pools in Budapest, the best known is the Császár in Buda and the sports pool on Margaret Island, the Olympic champion by Alfred Hajos is named.
2008 one of the largest indoor water theme parks in Europe has opened Ramada Resort.
Gastronomy
As in Vienna flourished in the 19th Century and the century in Budapest a lively cafe culture. One of the literary centers was more than one hundred years old kávéház Café New York, in 2006 after an extensive renovation was reopened in the summer, the time of communism existed in it under the name Hungária Kávéház.
A scene of the revolution in 1848 was the Pilvax-cafe in which the followers of Sándor Pet?fi gathered. The coffee houses also served as a workplace for writers, poets, journalists – Ferenc Molnár example, was a frequent visitor to this coffee houses. These were nationalized in the communist times and converted, many disappeared or have been neglected. At these times were the smoky little “Presszós” (espresso) are the only places where you Fekete, “a small black, strong coffee cooked Hungarian could enjoy” one.
The Café at Centrál Ferenciek was opened at the end of the 90s again, and shines in the old glory. The Cafe Museum Múzeum körút the restaurant has become a Nobel. As the most refined and most beautiful cafe which is Gerbeaud Café on Vörösmarty tér. The two oldest pastry shops in Buda, the pastry Ruszwurm in the Castle and the pastry shop next to the Buda August Fény utca market.
Transportation
Road
Although the share of private transport in total traffic of the city is rather small, it comes to daily traffic jams in and around the Hungarian capital. More than 600,000 registered cars use the road network in Budapest with a length of 4,000 kilometers. The inner city districts and parts of Buda are short-term parking. The situation is a serious lack of parking garages.
The historical road of Budapest, is characterized by ring and radial roads. Between these wide streets are rather narrow, now only suitable for one-way traffic roads.
Most of the roads leading from Budapest Hungary. The road network must therefore be near the city also passing record. The few bridges over the Danube are not longer cope with the traffic. In addition, the city has few and narrow access roads. The main part of the motorway ring, the M0, the city is now including the Megyeribrückelarge highway bridge, north of the city was ready made a new. The complete closure of the ring in the north-west of the city is indeed driven forward, but the difficult geographical conditions (Buda-hills) even longer to wait can be accessed by. The priority is the extension of the southwestern piece between the M1 and M5, which is completely overwhelmed.
As the automobile traffic contributes to air pollution in the winter smog makes veiled Budapest, since 2009 there is a law that on certain days may prohibit the driving. At significantly high particulate matter levels is driving on odd days only for cars with an odd last digit of the number allowed on board, on even days according only to cars with an even final digit. The police can not offenses punishable by fines, but only appeal to drivers. In January 2009, the first time such a ban came into force. The automobile traffic was reduced by around 18%.
Cycling
The proportion of the total traffic is cyclists in Budapest with about a two percent relative to low. Throughout the city there are less than 200 kilometers of bike paths (less than a fifth of what is in roughly equal Vienna ) is given, of which two thirds of a line on the sidewalk daubed consist only. Twice a year, to demonstrate in Budapest cyclists during a Critical Mass for better conditions for cyclists. With up to 80,000 participants, it is the world’s largest event of its kind
Rail
The city is located at an endpoint of the “Magistrale for Europe“, an important trans-European project that by 2015 between Paris and Budapest, a railwayhigh-speed line is to be realized.
Most trains arrive at the three major stations head on, the Keleti railway station (Ostbahnhof), the Nyugati railway station (Western Railway Station), the depot as a Railway Museum Budapest Europe’s largest interactive railway museum , and the Déli railway station (South Station).
From the Pest side situated on East or West train station there are direct flights to many European capitals, from South Station is located on the Buda side including the Balaton approached. All three stations are equipped with the Metro accessible. There are other, smaller passenger and freight stations.
Transport
3.8 million passengers daily on the move more than 2000 km long network of routes of public transport in Budapest. The Budapest transport company (BKV) operates Metro- Tram- Bus- Trolley- and HÉVlines (S-Bahn).
In addition to the 1896 completed subway vasút Földalatti (oldest subway on the European continent), the 1, Millennium Underground or yellow line will be designated line as between Vörösmarty tér and Mexikói út passengers transported, run two more Metro lines the red line between two Déli railway station and Ors vezér tere, or the blue line between 3 and Újpest K?bánya Kispest. A fourth is to be handed over in 2011, a fifth is planned.
Currently% of all journeys on the Metro completed 22nd 41% of all travel routes are bus, tram and another 26% (Villamos) and almost 5% O bus rides. Consequently, ways are almost three-quarters of all-road transport cope with. The five lines of HEV, a kind of S-Bahn in the Budapest suburbs, accounts for 6%.
The tram lines 4 and 6, that of a line end in the south of Buda same leg ring around except the old city of Pest around traveled with, are among the meistbenützten trams were the spring of 2006 renewed in and with the longest tramcar in the world (the low-floor Combino Plus from Siemens) equipped.
Other transport is still the cable car to János-hegy, the children’s train, the railway to the funicular to the castle hill and Svábhegy.
Aviation
The international airport Ferihegy Budapest is located about 28 km outside the city. With the entry of several low cost airlines in the Hungarian market in passenger numbers rising sharply since 2004. The airport is a shuttle bus (Rept-busz) on a highway or accessible. Since 2007, there is also a train link from Ferihegy Terminal 1 to the West Railway Station (Nyugati railway station). A train or subway connection from the terminals 2A and 2B and 2C of the proposed center is planned.
Shipping
The shipping has become increasingly important. Apart from domestic shipping companies, organized trips, there are regular trips with hydrofoils to Bratislava and Vienna. Also operates the BKV Rt two ferries and a shipping line, all of a run to two hours. River cruise ships, such as downstream from Passau , and upstream from the Black Sea every year hundreds of thousands of tourists bring to the docks. Thus, in the summer 2010 season total of up to 100 different passenger ships on the banks of the city counted daily.
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