It’s a river that flows through some breathtakingly beautiful stretches of central Europe.
It’s the second longest river in Europe, and it played a historically significant role as the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.
It’s a river dotted with the remains of castles such as the one in Durnstein, in the Wachau region of Austria, where Richard the Lionheart was held captive by Leopold V, Duke of Austria.
And it’s the river that splits the Buda and the Pest areas of the Hungarian capital.
We only had a couple of cloudy and rainy days in Budapest, but it wasn’t difficult to find inspiring pictures of the grand river and of the striking architecture that pushes up to the river’s banks.
This portion of the Danube is one of the more awe-inspiring stretches of river cutting through a major city in the world. Yes, the Vltava in Prague, the Thames in London and the Seine in Paris (picture coming soon) are similarly impressive, but the Danube in Budapest more than holds its own.