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Download a city guide of some of Europe's most beautiful cities onto your iPod, mp3 player or phone. As we guide you through the streets, along the route we've planned for you, our city guides will tell you what you're looking at and how to make the most of your city break.

Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

BUDAPEST - From Degas to Picasso

Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts which features in our mp3 tour of Budapest, is to show nearly sixty Impressionist and Abstract masterpieces which have been borrowed from the collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

This exhibition embracing the achievements of painting of 60 years is in fact a brief summary of the history of arts in the given period, and presents the masterpieces of painters like Cezanne, Courbet, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh.

The Museum of Fine Arts was opened in 1906 some thirty years after the state bought a collection of paintings from the wealthy Esterhazy family. Inside you’ll find works by Raphael, Tiepolo and Bruegel amongst others as well as Cézanne and Manet and there are also Greek and Roman artefacts.

It is situated in Heroes Square, the first stop on our audio tour of Budapest. On the other side of the square is the Muscarnok Palace or the Palace of Art. It has regularly changing temporary exhibitions – there is usually a banner on front advertising what is currently being shown. The frieze above the columns was only added in 1938 and shows St Istvan, the patron saint of art in his red robes. Behind the columns, a three part fresco shows the Birth of Sculpture, the Source of the Arts and Origins of Painting.

To the left of the Muscarnok Palace next to the City Park is the Secession Pavilion with its white walls and grey dome.

Museum of Fine Arts
1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 41.
06 1 469 7100
info@szepmuveszeti.hu
www.szepmuveszeti.hu

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