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                <title>Bartok Bela House Museum and Napfraforgo ut. Housing Estate</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you've done the Budapest basics, you should absolutely take an afternoon and visit Bela Bartok's house museum in the Buda Hills. This is a hymn of praise not only to the conductor, but his passion for Hungarian folk culture. <br><br>Among the highlights: his oversized, primitive recording device which he dragged all over historic Hungary, having local residents sing their songs into it, and his furniture, most of which is handmade from various parts of Transylvania.  The ladies who staff the museum can give you a tour in English and are very nice and accommodating.<br><br>While you are there, make sure you walk through the Napraforgo ut. housing estate, built in 1931 to house refugees from areas cut off from Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon. Architecture fans will delight in the display of creativity there, from Bauhaus to Arts and Crafts. Unfortunately, rich Buda residents are now buying all of them out and restoring them according to their own tastes, so the results of that could harm the ensemble, but you should go there anyway.  <br><br>This is a great doubleheader excursion well off the well-trodden tourist paths.]]></description>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This website is about the real Budapest, and gives very interesting background details about the history, culture and architecture of this beautiful capital which is slowly losing some of its unique features (old presszo bars, neon signs, dingy borozos) as it changes into a modern European metropolis. Written by a Hungarian speaker, the articles featured go behind the facade and into much more detail than a guide book could manage.<br>It has a wealth of information for people who really love Budapest and want to know the city better.<br>Check out the recent story on the Trabants - really interesting!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Szentendre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Szentendre is an idyllic small town situated on the Danube River about 19km away from the main city. In Szentendre, you can escape the chaos of the city and experience a timeless, laid-back old town that has hardly been affected by the modernity of Budapest.]]></description>
                
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