Hungarian Parliament First Evening Light

by Joan Carroll

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Hungarian Parliament First Evening Light

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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It's hard to pick my favorite place to photograph the Hungarian Parliament building, especially at night! It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful sights in Budapest, sitting on the Pest side of the Danube River. But each night you can only pick one place if you want to see the progressive fading of the daylight and then the start of the magical light show that is the Budapest UNESCO World Heritage center. People gather every night right around sunset knowing that the lights will soon go on! On this evening, we were at Fisherman's Bastion on Castle Hill viewing the Parliament Building from on high. Sunset was at 5:25 pm and we arrived at about 5. We had alot of people ask us what time the lights went on! I guess we must have looked like we knew what was going on since we were set up taking photos every few minutes. A group of drunk young men made fun of us for saying that the lights came on soon after sunset, since it was a cloudy dreary day, but never mind, they got their cell phone photos and left! The building was lovely as the light faded and this was the view immediately after the lights started to go on. Not quite blazing yet but giving off a warm comforting glow. The Hungarian Parliament Building is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the east bank of the Danube. It is currently the largest building in Hungary and still the tallest building in Budapest. The Parliament Building is in the Gothic Revival style; it has a symmetrical facade and a central dome. The dome is Renaissance Revival architecture. It is 268 m (879 ft) long and 123 m (404 ft) wide. Its interior includes 10 courtyards, 13 passenger and freight elevators, 27 gates, 29 staircases and 691 rooms (including more than 200 offices). With its height of 96 m (315 ft), it is one of the two tallest buildings in Budapest, along with Saint Stephen's Basilica. The number 96 refers to the nation's millennium, 1896, and the conquest of the later Kingdom of Hungary in 896. The Parliament Building is part of the UNESCO World Site which encompasses a large part of both banks of the Danube River in Budapest.

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March 9th, 2015

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