Agadir

My only postcard from Morocco so far :)
My friend went on vacation with his family here to a tourist resort in the coastal region, they visited Marrakesh, Casablanca and Gibraltar as well.

From: P. M.

Date: September 2010

The City That Never Sleeps

Skyline of NYC: the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building

This is my first postcard from the city of cities! :) My friend spent the whole summer in New York, working.
New York is absolutely my dream destination, I wish to come here, I'm just waiting for the time... :)
If I manage, first of all, I"M going to visit the Museum of Modern Art, where all my favourite artist has at least a piece of work there. 

This is one of my favourite postcards!

From: S. O.

Date: August 2010

Bologna

Bologna is the center of the region Emilia-Romagna and the home of the oldest university in the world, established in 1088.
These porticoes have a romantic atmosphere, makes the true Italian-feeling inside my heart :)

From: M. H.

Date: August 2010

Keszthely

The Festetics Palace

Keszthely is a city at the Western Bay of Balaton. It is famous for the Festetics Palace, an elegant Baroque style building from the 18th century. Kristóf Festetics was the commissioner of the construction in 1745. An additional part for the library was built by György Festetics between 1799-1801, it is called the Helikon Library.

From: P. M.

Date: August 2010

Balatonkenese

Balatonkenese is a town at the Eastern bay of Balaton. The godmother of my sister spends summers here and she sent us this postcard.

From: Sz. M.

Date: July 2010

Venice again

One of my best friend and one of her friends travelled to Italy together and they brought me this postcard with funny stories and drawings :D By the way, the photo is pretty.

From: R. J.

Date: July 2010

Piazza Navona

The beautiful Piazza Navona in Rome :)

From: S. Zs.

Date: May 2010

Colourful Munich

One of my best friends brought me this postcard upon her visit to the city. She would later move to Munich for some months with her boyfriend.

From: H. Á.

Date: April 2010

Piccioni dappertutto

Piazza San Marco of Venice

The very typical scene of Venice: thousands of pigeons in the Saint Mark's Square. It could be a picture of my first memory of Venice: I was running through a huge flock of pigeons and they were flying away.

From: H. J.

Date: 2010

Exotic

Jaguar Attacking a Horse by Henri Rousseau (1910)

Henri Rousseau is one of my favourite painters. I love his paintings of exotic jungles and deserts.

From January to May in 2010 there was an exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) titled Degas to Picasso. The paintings were loans from the Pushkin Museum of Moscow. This picture was also on show.

Date: 2010

San Francisco

This postcard is from a friend who lives in Millbrae, California.
San Francisco is absolutely a dream destionation if I manage once to travel to the United States. I can't put off my art historian aims, I wish to see the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :) And of course, to watch the sun setting by the Golden Gate Bridge!

From: C. D.

Date: 2010

The face of the wizard

The Lutheran Church of Siófok

This church has an important place in my heart. During my childhood summers I was amazed by it's forms and all the time I looked at the façade I pictured a face of a wizard (and the roof is it's pointy hat).
The church was designed by Imre Makovecz, a pioneer in organic architecture in Hungary. He designed many other churches and among others, the building complex of my university, the Faculty of Humanities of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba.
The construction had been finished in 1990 and the church was consecrated in 1992.
In the summer of 2012, my father and I attended a Sunday mass in the church and had the opportunity to speak with the pastor of the community. He explained us the symbolism of the forms of the building: the eye-shaped windows represent the eyes of God, the wings are wings of angels. The curved wooden lines starts on the sides of the gate and go up to the windows refers to the pastoral cane (Pastor Bonus - Good Sheperd). Below the cross on the top is an ornament that symbolizes the Tree of Life and the cross of Christ. The façade is orientated to the lake Balaton and the shape of the nave recalls the form of an arc, that one of Noah's.

I got this postcard when I spent my internship in a gallery and there was the photo exhibition of the buildings of Imre Makovecz. He also attended the exhibition opening so I could meet and speak with him. Makovecz died in the following year.
The photo was took by the photographer Gábor Máté.

Date: November 2010

Pécs Aktuál

Pécs is a southwestern city in Hungary, the administrative center of Baranya county. It has many historical sites, including the architectural remains of the Turkish reign. The early Christian necropolis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The world famous designer and member of the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer is from Pécs.
In 2010 the city earned the title of European Capital of Culture and to this event, many restorations and constructions took place in Pécs. One noteworthy construction was the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter where the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture can be found.

From: T. A.

Date: 2010

The Wall

This is one of my favourite postcard in my collection. My friend was in Berlin for a couple of days and she brought me this card with a piece of the Berlin Wall in it. What a coincidence that it was the 25th anniversary in November of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

From: T. A.

Date: July 2009

A trip to Paris

In March - April 2010 we spent with my friends a great vacation in Paris. We visited one our best friend who moved to the city. Paris is is really what it is, enchanting, exciting, beautiful. My friend lived in a cute little flat near to the Montparnasse Cemetery. We climbed the Eiffel Tower, been to the Louvre twice, to the Centre Pompidou (there was a Gender Art exhibition at that time), Notre Dame, Sacré-Cœur, Arc de Triomphe, I liked a lot the Défense and its modern arch, we travelled to Versailles, All we missed was the Musée d'Orsay 'cause it started to rain heavily when we were standing in the queue. It breaks my heart, but I have the perfect reason to return :)

Regarding the postcards: I prefer the black and white ones to the sepia series, but the photos are all very good quality.

Date: 26 March - 5 April 2010

Chihuahua scares

This is a very funny postcard. One of my best friends sent me from Paris when she moved there.
Her text perfectly harmonizes with the humorous sense of the picture :)
We visited her few weeks later.

From: S. O.

Date: March 2010

Stockholm

My friend spent her vacation in Stockolm. I remember they had accomodation in a hotel that was a prison before, a must to see! 

Nice reflections ^_^ 

From: T. A.
Date: August 2010

Guangzhou Tower

The Guangzhou Tower

I like this graphic art of the tower. The glittery red writing makes a good contrast with the grey drawing :)

From: Postcrossing direct swap
Date: 14 November 2014