Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the most famous bridge in Budapest. Special with the Buda castle in the background.
The Chain Bridge (Hungarian: Széchenyi lánchíd) is the oldest bridge over the Danube in the Hungarian capital Budapest. She's the fifth bridge, if you go downstream. The 330 m long and 15.8 m wide bridge is located between Adam Clark Square (Clark Ádám tér) in Buda and Stefan Széchenyi Square (Széchenyi István tér) in Pest and dates back to 1849. At the time, it was the first fixed bridge over the Danube downstream of Regensburg.
Officially, since 1899 this busy bridge has been called the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi-Lánchid), after Count István Széchenyi, the man who took the initiative to build it. Széchenyi, nicknamed the "Greatest Hungarian", when Hungary was still part of Austria, took many initiatives to improve Hungary's prosperity. At his insistence, factories, roads, bridges and mills were built and agriculture improved.
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