Andrássy út — Budapest's Answer to the Champs-Élysées

Andrássy út — Budapest's Answer to the Champs-Élysées

Paris has the Champs-Élysées. Budapest has Andrássy út — a sweeping, tree-lined boulevard built in the 1870s when this city was determined to announce itself to the world. Most visitors walk its entire length without knowing what they're looking at. Here's the full story, from the grand Opera House at its heart to the sobering building at number 60 that tells a very different side of Budapest's history.

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