Fisherman's bastion/Matthias Church

Thanks for all your lovely comments, hearts and stars for yesterday's bridges Blip, it ended up on the Spotlight page :-)))

I managed to fix the camera, thanks for all your advice. The solder that holds the wire to the positive terminal had broken, I had to strip the camera down to re-solder it but it's fine now.

I worked stupidly late tonight so grabbed this Blip on the way home as I know there a cafe that does great goose liver sandwiches and real coffee (where I'm sitting now).

You're actually looking at two separate landmarks, in the front with the small turrets is The Fisherman's bastion, it was built in 1900 and near destroyed in the second world war, it was then rebuilt with the seven towers representing the seven Magyar tribes that settled in the Carpathian Basin. It's called the Fisherman's bastion after the fishermen that were responsible for protecting this stretch of the Danube in the middle ages.
The other landmark is Matthias Church built in the 10th century then changed in the 14th and 19th it has a very distinctive ceramic tiled roof and hold the Hungarian coronation jewels.

Note to self next time I repair the camera and mess with the settings don't leave it on iso3200 grrrrr

I hope your hump day went quick :-)

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