Mark, yes, I sadly agree, but they have been crumbling all through the
Soviet era, too.
Doug
On 4-Apr-09, at 12:21 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> I was in Budapest for the first time last summer. The very small
> gussied-up section of Buda and the tourist enclave of Pest were
> severely at odds with the tumbledown condition of the rest of the
> city, where whole neighborhoods of superb art nouveau and art deco
> architecture appear to be crumbling away.
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