Description: Budapest, "Queen of the Danube", is split by the great river into two "cities": Buda, rising above the east bank, and Pest, stretching out on the plains to the west -- both beloved by travelers. This 288-page Knopf Guide has all the information a visitor needs -- historical, cultural, and practical -- with more than 1,000 full-color maps, drawings, and photographs.

Here's everything to enrich your stay, including a brief history of Budapest's music makers: Haydn, Liszt, Bartok, and Kodaly ... detailed architectural drawings celebrating its buildings -- baroque, neoclassic, Art Nouveau, and modern ... a section on Budapest as seen by artists and writers, as well as its celebrated photographers Brassai and Kertesz. More than 60 pages of itineraries take you around Pest -- from the Parliament buildings, the National Opera, and the Museum of Fine Arts to the Szechnyi thermal baths in Budapest City Park -- and around Buda, with its Royal Palace dating from the 13th century and its National Gallery; and to the Roman ruins of the old town of Obuda. Day trips take you outside the city to the famously picturesque town of Szentendre, with its seven churches, and the medieval Hungarian capital of Esztergom. And, of course, there is information on hotels, restaurants, and how to get around.

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