If we go through the admirable photo collaction of Fortepan.hu
with an eye got used to geomorphology, we can find a lot of interesting
changes in the Hungarian landscape. So it is with Budapest's favourite
island, the Margaret Island. Its name comes from Saint Margaret,
daughter of the Hungarian King Béla IV. In the 30s, an unknown tourist
captured this view from the Buda Castle. This photo has preserved the
memory of the Víziváros, Margaret Island, further the Népsziget and the
northernmost Palotai Island covered with dense forest.
But there is something strange with the Margaret Island. Its western side is quite barren, as if a real estate investor has just chopped the forest to build more hotels. But that is not the case. To understand, why the island looked like this, we have to go back in time.
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