Going underground in Budapest (13 images)
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Cafebabel ENG (NS)Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has certainly pitched himself against trends. The worst of Hungarian culture is being drawn from prejudices on a political level, through sexist language, anti-minority sentiments and an aversion to the ‘everybody good neighbours’ policy. What’s on the surface stays on the surface; Italian photographer Eloisa d’Orsi chooses to view the capital from its underground, following the three metro lines of Budapest
This is the first in a series of special monthly city editions on ‘EUtopia on the ground’; watch this space for upcoming reports ‘dreaming of a better Europe’ from Athens, Warsaw, Naples, Dublin, Zagreb and Helsinki. This project is funded with support from the European commission via the French ministry of foreign affairs, the Hippocrène foundation and the Charles Léopold Mayer foundation for the progress of humankind
Carpet in the form of a map at the house of terror museum, on the atrocities committed by the nazis and communists in Hungary. The museum is housed in the former headquarters of the dreaded secret police (AVH) (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
Underground store mannequins. Behind the university there is a wide variety of shops with swords, guns, gas masks, guns, clothing and typical Hungarian gifts (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
In front of Budapest-Nyugati pályaudvar, the second most important railway station in the city after Keleti (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
Map of Budapest before going underground, which offers a myriad of surprises - from the thermal baths to world war two era tunnels and the lines of one of the oldest metro systems in Europes (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
The line M1 (Millenniumi Földalatti Vasút, FAV/ MillFaV) crosses the city from south-west to north-east. It's the second oldest metropolitan line in Europe after London. In 2002 it was listed as a unesco world heritage site (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
Above grounds, students are protesting for their rights; a constitutional change means they are obliged not to leave the country for the same amount of time that they have taken state money for their studies (two years of study = two years in Budapest working) (Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013)
(Image: © Eloisa d'Orsi for ‘EUtopia on the ground’, Budapest, February 2013) This is the first in a series of special monthly city editions on ‘EUtopia on the ground’; watch this space for upcoming reports ‘dreaming of a better Europe’ from Athens, Warsaw, Naples, Dublin, Zagreb and Helsinki. This project is funded with support from the European commission via the French ministry of foreign affairs, the Hippocrène foundation and the Charles Léopold Mayer foundation for the progress of humankind
Translated from Subway Budapest: fuga dal nazionalismo nei sotterranei della capitale