The Danube is one of Europe’s principle rivers, flowing through several countries from its source in the Black Forest in Germany until it  empties into the Black Sea in Romania. It flows mainly in a south-easterly direction until it finds its way blocked by the mountains of northern Hungary forcing the river to make a very sharp 90 degrees turn to the south. This rather dramatic and spectacular ‘bend’ in the river occurs at the town of Esztergom, famous for its beautiful mountain-top basilica with its spectacular green dome.

I took this picture of the river in the spring of 2006 from a point just south of the ‘bend’.

And just a short distance further up the river the basilica comes into view.