Portal:Budapest/Did you know?

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[edit] Did you know...

...that the Dohány Street Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world?

...that at its erection time (1933) the Lakihegy Tower (314 metre high) was Europe's highest structure?

...that the Western Railway Station (opened in 1877) was built by the Eiffel company?

...that the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler was the director of the Hungarian State Opera from 1888 to 1891?