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Title: Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England : souvenir of the North German Lloyd, Bremen
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Norddeutscher Lloyd
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Publisher: Berlin : J. Reichmann & Cantor
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fortress, in 1849. The Arsenalin the Georgs-Platz. The Palace ofthe Minister President and the Honved-Ministerium are on the right. The Royal Palace which was built byMaria Theresa, and partly destroyedby fire in 1849, has been finely re-stored. The Ofen Town Hall. The Matthias-Kirche. The Gymnasium, and theGothic Realschule. The GarrisonChurch, in the Gothic style, is in theFerdinands-Pla tz. At the base of the Blocksberg arethree chalybeate and warm sulphursprings, used at the Bruckbad forbathing. The Raitzenbad is nearhere on the hillside in the Raitzen-stadt. The Blocksbad is further downthe river. The Hunyadi-Janos andFranz-Josef springs are in the meadowsat the foot of the Blocksberg. The Kaiserbad, near the Mar-garethen - Briicke, is the principalsulphur bath in Ofen. There areeleven springs, the temperature vary-ing from 80 to 150 Fahr. The Turkishmosque, stands on rising groundpicturesquely surrounded by vineyards 236 Ihmmnus \ *«4, j~ , ^„ - *<£~* . .^ )• CI/j5t?j*
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^~*^jg. %. «— .• -ii* fjj £. ft. ~7 € > . liJ 7: .i- w:; uL» . —J ■ 5, -t- . ><: &- __J-,_^- *.§£> SJ..J 337 The Hungarian State is preparingto celebrate the iooo Anniversary ofits existence by a National MillenialExhibition, to be held in the Capitaland Royal Residence, Budapest, fromMay ist. to Oct. 31st. 1896. HisApostolic Majesty, the Emperor FrancisJoseph I. has graciously consented toassume the Protectorate of this ex-hibition. The exhibition will initiatea series of millenial festivities. Theexhibition itself will comprise thehistoric treasures and monuments ofthe Hungarian Nation, and will givea faithful reflex of present conditions,Agriculture, Trade, Finance and CreditSystem, the various Industries, Social,Art and Literary Life, Hygiene, Mili-tary condition, &c, of Hungary. The Exhibition will cover an areaof 510,000 square meter, the expenseswill amount to some five millionGulden. The combined pavilions of theHistoric

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