Category: architecture
Bookcafé in Alexandra and the Vigadó, Budapest
Inside the branch of Alexandra bookstore located inside the now-defunct Paris Department Store (Párizsi Nagy Áruház, Andrássy út 39) is one of the more beautiful café in Europe. Click here for our post on the bookstore. After entering the Alexandra Bookstore on the ground floor you’ll find a pair of escalators which bring you up to the…
Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest
Back in fall 2014, we spent a long weekend in Budapest, Hungary. We have a couple more posts on this city before we put up photos from our Malaysian trip. While strolling along Andrássy út (Budapest’s Fifth Avenue), we came across this building with a rather impressive facade. The combination of art nouveau motifs and…
Four Seasons Hotel at Gresham Palace, Budapest
In October, I(Chris) attended a business conference in Budapest at the Four Seasons Hotel. Sue joined me and we stayed for a couple of extra days to see the city. Neither one of us has been to Hungary before. . The meetings were held in this historical Art Nouveau building in the center of Budapest. …
The Cathedral of Asti, Piedmont
The city of Asti is 40 minutes drive from Torino and one hour from Milano. Asti was founded by the Ligurians who named it ‘Ast’ meaning ‘hill’ or ‘high-ground’ in 49 BC. After walking around downtown Asti, looking up at the medieval towers (see our earlier post here), we found the city’s cathedral. The cathedral…
Città delle cento torri, Asti, Piedmont
Continuing with our vacation in Northern Italy … in Piedmont where we were staying, the nearest big town is Asti. Asti has the largest late medieval architectural heritage of the region, in memory of what was once the most powerful town in Piedmont. There are numerous towers, fortified houses, churches, and palaces. The area north-west of the…
Brasserie Bahnhof Basel
When it comes to finding a place to eat at a train station, the Brasserie at the Basel train station is hard to beat. I stumbled into this place recently. This brasserie is located in the Basel SBB train station on the Swiss side of the border and not the Basel Badischer Bahnhof which handles the German…