Centennial Memorial

Margitsziget (or Margit-sziget), meaning Margaret Island, is a To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 1 km and 10 km (103 and 104 m). See also lengths of other orders of magnitude. Distances shorter than 1 km 1,000 metres is equal to: 1 kilometre 0.621371 miles 1,093.61 yards 3... 2.5 km long island in the middle of the For other uses of Danube, see Danube (disambiguation). Danube in Budapest Length 2 860 km Elevation of the source 678 m Average discharge 6 400 m³/ s Area watershed 817 000 km² Origin In the Black Forest ( Germany) Mouth Black Sea ( Romania) Basin countries Romania (28.9%), Hungary... Danube in central See Budapest (band) for the British melancholic post-grunge band. Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1.7 million inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s peak of 2.07 million. It... Budapest, between the two city parts, Buda is a historical city in Hungary on the West bank of the Danube. It was the capital of Hungary from 1361 to 1541 when it was captured by the Ottoman Empire. In 1686 it was captured by Austria. Buda was united with Óbuda and Pest in 1873 to form... Buda and Pest (in Slovak Pešť, pron. Pesht) was an independent city in Hungary located on the East bank of the Danube River. The first written mentions of the city are found dating to 1148; however, an ancient Celtic settlement and later Roman settlements existed in the same place. The... Pest. The island mostly consists of a park and is a popular recreational area for tourists as well as for local people. The island lies between bridges Margit híd (south) and Árpád híd (north).

Its major points are the Centennial Memorial (pictured, remembering the hundredth anniversary of the city's unification), the Palatinus open-air bath and Alfréd Hajós swimming pool, a tennis stadion and an athletics centre, the Musical Fountain and a small Japanese Garden, another fountain which provides music accompanied with water show, an open-air theatre, an octagonal water tower (pictured), and a little zoo.

Water Tower

Among its historical monuments are the XIII-century ruins of a Franciscans is the common name used to designate a variety of mendicant religious orders of men or women tracing their origin to Francis of Assisi and following the Rule of St. Francis. The official Latin name is the Ordo Fratrum Minorum (Order of the Lesser Brothers, or Order of the... Franciscan church and the ruins of a The Dominican Order, (its formal name, Ordo praedicatorum or the Order of Preachers, is less common in English; a member is referred as a blackfriar) founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century, is one of the great orders of mendicant friars that revolutionized religious life in Europe during... Dominican church and convent from the same century, as well as a The Premonstratensians are a Christian religious order founded at Prémontré near Laon by Saint Norbert around 1120. They were established to follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, with Cistercian influence. They are also known as The White Canons or Norbertines. Categories: Stub ... Premonstratensian church from the XII century. – The island used to be called Rabbit Island (Nyulak szigete), and it received its current name after Saint Margaret (1242–1270), the daughter of B la IV (1206-1270) was the king of Hungary between 1235 and 1270. Bela was the son of Andrew II. Bela tried with little success to reestablish royal preeminence by reacquiring lost crown lands. His efforts, however, created a deep rift between the crown and the magnates just as... Bela IV of Hungary.

It is forbidden to enter the island with vehicles; only one bus is let in. Its special vehicle is Bringó-hintó, a four-person bicycle, available for hiring.

External links

• Margaret Island (http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en/sights/margitsziget.html) (Tourism Office of Budapest)
• Margaret Island (http://www.iit.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/bptour/bpmari.htm) (Budapest Page)