Palatul Parlamentului Budapesta

Detalii Podul Margareta

Podul Margareta. Al doilea pod budapestan s-a construit între 1872 şi 1876. Face legătura între cele două maluri ale Dunării şi partea sudică a Insulei Margareta.

The Bridge with Chains. Two centuries ago, there were two cities (Buda and Pesta, which today make Budapesta) were conected by chain of boats, ensuring trading between comunities on the oposite banks of the Danube. The Bridge with Chains, built between 1839 and 1849, became a symbol for Budapest. Back then, when it was completed, it was considered one of the world's wonders.

Golubac Fortress is one of the best preserved castles in Serbia dating from the XIV-th century. It was built by Maria Tereza on the Serbian bank of the Danube. It has ten interconnected towers so it could be defended from all directions. During the Medieval period it was the subject of many battles, especially between Hungarians and Turks. Presently, Golubac Fortress is quite a popular tourist atraction.

Sailing upstream the Danube, looking at the Serbian and Romanian banks ...

Mraconia Monastery is the only Romanian monastery built between the rocky banck of the Danube and its waters. Mraconia means “hidden place“ or “dark water”. It is located 15 Km west of the Romanian town Orsova and endured the history's adversities, starting with the nomadic hoards' pillaging, paying tributes to foreign empires and even being covered by the Danube's waters. Its existence has been documented in 1453, it was distroyed during the Russian - Austrian - Turkish war between 1787 and 1792, rebuilt and demolished again in 1968 and eventually rebuilt again in 1993. From the original building, that now lays in ruins at the bottom of the river, have been recovered only the royal doors and a candle holder presently held in the parochial museum from Eselnita.