During our trip to the Buda Castle District, using the wonderful public transport system, I will update you on Hungarian history, to give context to the walk. Of course, any places of interest on the route will also be highlighted.

On of the attractions of this tour is that you get to see major tourist sites of Budapest, but from a different, more recent, perspective.

Our walk begins right in the heart of the famous Castle District, an area devastated in 1945. We will slowly walk among the many tourists but using a different lens.

We will visit:

- Fisherman's Bastion: gain an understanding of how the Siege came about, looking over the districts of Pest. Relive the moments when all the bridges were blown.

- Buda facing promenade: looking over the Buda Hills, we understand the final days as the Soviets cut off the Castle District. Soldiers fighting to the last man, casualties treated in the tunnels under where we are standing.

- Vienna Gate: We stop and reflect on the 10,000 Soldiers, Militia, women and children desperately waiting to break the siege as the shells start to fall.

- Haymarket Square: The breakout line as 40,000 try to reach German lines. And, finding out how many actually made it.

Note: By using photographs from 1945 along the way, I will bring that destruction alive, by standing in the exactly the same locations.