Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Jewish Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 2.
The history of the Jewish Community in Hungary, Jewish traditions, the holocaust are just some of the very well depicted subjects in this museum using explanatory panels (in English, Hungarian and Hebrew), with objects of worship, of ceremony, manuscripts, textiles and paintings.… Read the rest here →
Name: Petőfi Literary Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály utca 16.
This literary museum which bears the name of the famous poet Sándor Petőfi (statue on the staircase), occupies the former palace of the counts of Károlyi.… Read the rest here →
Name: Endre Ady Appartment-Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Veres Pálné utca 4-6.
It is the apartment-museum of a great name in Hungarian literature : Endre Ady (1877-1919). The furniture which adorn the office, the dining room and the bedroom, evoke the two last two years of the poet’s life.… Read the rest here →
Name: Ferenciek tere
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere
From this very busy square, an underground passageway allows you to return to the pedestrian quarter of Váci Street. From the exit from the underground passageway, you will see both Elisabeth bridge and Mount Gellért in the background.… Read the rest here →
Name: Március 15 tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1056 Budapest, Március 15 tér
The name of this square which stands near to Elisabeth bridge recalls the first jour of the revolution of 1848. Below it, you can see some remains from an entrenched field from the Roman era called Contra Aquincum.… Read the rest here →