We have been living in Hungary already for 9-10 month, we use public transportation every day, we are going through some streets and squares, and they all have their names. We already can hear and recognize what they say in metro, we know all stations by heart, but we still do not know what all they mean. I know most of us already leaving the country, but maybe it is still worse to find out who is who on our everyday way to CEU? Maybe it is better later than never?
For most of us our day usually starts at Örs vezér tere. It can be translated as the leader Örs square. To answer, who is leader Örs at first it should be answered who are Hungarians, Magyars – the nation which appeared in the middle of Europe, surrounded by Slavic peoples, but who are so different from all these peoples, whose language does not sound similar to any language which we used to hear. There are a lot of different theories, but most of them agree that Hungarians came from the East, most probably from Central Asia and around 9-10th century they settled on the territory of modern Hungary. Already being in Europe they split in seven tribes. The leader Örs was one of the leaders and he based a camp near the river Sajó, which nowadays can be found partly in Hungary, partly in Slovakia.
Our next stop is Pillangó utca. This station can be translated as Butterfly Street.
Now we are going underground and coming to the Puskás Ferenc Stadion. Here is football stadium, which was named after Puskás Ferenc in 2002. Ferenc Puskás was one of the greatest football player and coaches of 20th century; FIFA established Puskás Award for the “most beautiful” goal of the year. Also he was one the first FIFA Charity Ambassadors.
He died in 2006 and was buried with all national honors under the dome of the St Stephen's Basilica.
And we are going further and coming to our next stop which is Keleti pályaudvar. Here you can find one of the railway stations, which can be translated as East Railway Station. The building of the station was built in 1881-1884 and became the most modern station of that time. It is the biggest railway station of the Budapest.
The next stop is Blaha Lujza tér – the square of Blaha Lujza, who was Hungarian actress and singer of the end of 19th– beginning of 20th century. Lujza Blaha was known as “the nation’s nightingale”, had lots of awards and for her 70th birthday the square was named after her.
Our next stop is Astoria. This metro station is called after the hotel which is situated here (Grand Hotel Astoria).
After that we are coming to our final stop - Deák Ferenc tér (the square of Deák Ferenc).
Deák Ferenc is the Hungarian politician of 19th century. He can be called as the father of Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. Hungary received internal independence, but there were left some issues which can be better realized by both countries together on an equal footing. For his wisdom and diplomatic qualities he was called “Hungarian Wiseman”.
And here our metro journey is over and after some minutes walk through nice square we are coming to our University, where we had classes and could meet with our friends.
Sofiia Kordonets, Legal Studies Department
0 comments:
Post a Comment