Your City, My City, Their City
Your City, My City, Their City

Summary/Abstract: The first Budapest guidebook worthy of the name seems to have been published (in German) in 1733, and there were several more German guides up to 1845, when the first in Hungarian was published. The union of the cities of Buda, Óbuda and Pest in 1873 stimulated the Vienna-based art critic, Ludwig (Lajos) Hevesi, to produce a rather sketchy guide, and in the same year Budapest at last made it into Baedeker. Other foreign series of mainline guides like Hartleben, and eventually John Murray, followed Baedeker’s lead.

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