Hungary fith part - trip to Székesfehérvár
pictures >>> walk around Székesfehérvár
Veszprém is called „the city of Queens“ because a lot Queens were crowned by bishops here. 40 kilometres in Eastern direction you will find „the city of kings“, Székesfehérvár. King Stephan I. founded the Hungarian kingdom there in 1001 and it was the capital for more than 500 years up to the occupation of the Turkish army. I went there with Viola, a Hungarian student, because it is the town, where she went to school. So she could show me a lot of nice places. As you can see in pictures it is such a beautiful city with old buildings. You can see the former cathedral, where the kings were crowned and buried, but you just see some rest of walls. Outside the city centre you may find some “modern” buildings from socialism time and a very modern cinema centre of course.
By the way, for me it is unbelievable how the people can survive. Of course there are a lot of big shops already (like METRO, Media market, TESCO, McDonalds etc.) but the prices are almost as high as in Germany! Even though the average salary is about 300 up to 500 € each month!
On Monday my university building got a new elevator. It looks a little bit strange, the old building with décor of 1970 and this modern elevator. In the evening I went together with the students to a nice event. It was for economist students and quite serious at the very beginning. But after midnight they started dancing and it was a nice evening…
