Budapest

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Houses come and go, we can tear one down and build something different in its place, but the spirit of a locality will remain. This is the miracle of every true city. A city is a living body; it has a bead, heart, stomach, lungs and limbs. A city exists not only in space, but in time as well. It is a live organism, just like the human body; its cells grow old and die, are replaced, and the whole of it is always different, and always the same. A city is not just a conglomeration of houses, streets and squares; it is made up of legends, songs, jokes, the memories of former yesterdays, holidays and catastrophes, of colors and smells.