Friday in Budapest

Friday morning we went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. There was a Rembrandt exhibit and a Carvaggio exhibit. It was just off of Heroes’ Square, and I was happy we got to see the square again. I think I enjoyed it more than I have other art museums in the past. We were there for several hours, and afterwards we went and saw the Opera House. It looks much like the one in Vienna.
Afterwards, we went over to the Buda side and took a cable car up to the castle. We wanted to go to the Labyrinth, but we were lost, so we ended up seeing much of the Buda Castle as well. After getting directions from at least five different people and wandering all over, we finally found the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is a bunch of man made caves all under the castle and the side of the hill that the Hungarians waited out sieges in. They also used them to house many of the people during WWII bombings. And they were creepy. Low ceilings, extremely damp and humid inside, not very much lighting, and of course, they added eerie music that sounded like you were going to go sacrifice someone to the gods when you heard it. I kind of felt like I had walked into a movie. There was also part it that had no lighting whatsoever and you had to feel your way around the winding caves. That part was a little scary. The oddest part, though, was that there was a random fountain of one in one of the dead end areas. I still can’t figure out what it was doing there.