{"product_id":"9781886705227","title":"Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding Pocket Size Travel Map With Metro (2015)","description":"\u003cb\u003e2015 UPDATED\u003c\/b\u003e Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines \u0026amp; stations\u003cp\u003eThis travel map covers the following areas:\u003cbr\u003eMain Budapest Map Front 1: 17,000\u003cbr\u003eMain Budapest Map Back 1:11,000\u003cbr\u003eCity Center Map 1:11,000\u003cbr\u003eMillennium City Center Map 1:17,000\u003cbr\u003eBudapest Metro Map\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople say Budapest is the Paris of Central Europe. Maybe that statement is true because it combines a combination of western luxuries, architectural beauty, and cosmopolitan European traditions. But this baroque city is still connected to its Eastern European heritage with the steaming baths, incredibly complex language and lusty cuisine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBudapest straddles a curve in the river Danube which bisects two distinct parts. The east side is known as “Pest” and the west side is known as “Buda,” hence Budapest. It's a very logical, well laid out city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCastle Hill is the premier destination for visitors and contains many of Budapest’s most important monuments and museums, and great views of Pest across the blue Danube. Pastel houses lining cobbled streets and stone balustrade overlooks give this citadel a fairy tale quality, while bullet holes from the unsuccessful 1956 uprising pockmark many buildings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main map of Budapest covers a large part of the central city in detail and is fully indexed with hotels, sites, architecture, metro stations and parks. The “City Center” inset map expands the old city grid and enables you to stroll the warren of old streets and absorb Hungarian history and culture at your leisure. The inset map of “Budapest Metro” facilitates your travel throughout the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne example of the importance of on site research: when this Budapest map was first conceived in the early 1990’s we ran into a unique problem with sudden unannounced street name changes. Streets named after heroic Socialist revolutionaries were changed without notice. The streets were renamed after heroes of the Hungarian National Liberation. Other maps who rely on out of date documents for updating still reflect the old street names. Imagine publishing a map and unknowingly using names like Karl Marx Ave. and Lenin Square. Whoops! Fortunately, with our STREETWISE® Budapest Map, we adhered to a policy of physically researching and updating the city, thereby avoiding these sorts of mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur pocket size map of Budapest is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Budapest map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Budapest map today and you too can navigate Budapest, Hungary like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble search bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout STREETWISE® Maps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTREETWISE® is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. We've set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where you've never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970's, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map - vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, STREETWISE® produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesn't match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we've done the work, now you have the adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, it's not about the map, it's about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. It's about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE® is the great map that you need.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Streetwise Maps, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064449351920,"sku":"9781886705227","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781886705227_p0.jpg?v=1763783238","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781886705227","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}