But if you know where to look, there are still visible scars of the siege that left 80 per cent of the city's buildings damaged or destroyed – despite decades of careful reconstruction.
‘There is still quite a lot to see and although most of the Hungarian documents and maps were destroyed there are still a lot of German and Soviet sources dating from the siege,' says Balazs Mihalyi, a cartographer and one of the founders of the Fortification Historical Society.
