Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden
In Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden, a landmark that began life in 1866, one of the oldest zoos in the world once found its home here inside a city park that itself sits at the heart of the capital. The site is known for its Art Nouveau buildings designed by Kornél Neuschloss and Károly Kós, evidence of the era when the zoo expanded from simple cages into a cultivated, garden-like experience. The zoo opened on 9 August 1866, and over the decades it welcomed creatures from giraffes gifted by Franz Joseph and Queen Elizabeth to lions, tigers, elephants, hippopotamuses, and rhinoceroses that joined the collection as it grew. Today, that history lives on only in memory, as this place no longer physically exists; the site has been transformed, leaving behind the legacy of a pioneering institution in Hungarian natural history. …
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