Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Vigadó tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Vigadó tér
In the tourist season this square on the banks of the Danube brims over with activities, the terraces of the restaurants are fit to burst.… Read the rest here →
Name: Church of the Servites
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1052 Budapest, Szervita tér 7.
The order of the Servites was authorised to set up in Hungary in 1686 under the reign of Léopold Ist. The Church, in the Baroque style, is dedicated to Saint Anne.… Read the rest here →
Name: Szervita tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Szervita tér
From the centre of this square you can get a good look at the mosaic in the Art nouveau or Secession style, which decorates the upper part of a building occupied on the ground floor by a clothes shop (No.… Read the rest here →
Name: Town Hall
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Városház utca 9-11.
You can only stop and stare at the façade of the Town Hall! Once a hospital for Invalids, then a barracks under Joseph II in 1784, the largest Baroque building in the city was built by Martinelli at the start of the 18th Century Above the porch, note the three statues: Atlas between the allegories of war and peace.… Read the rest here →
Name: Museum of the Metro
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák tér
In Deák ter metro station, take a tour around this small museum. An old station with its ticket-puncher will greet you. Along the platform you can follow, with the aid of some explanatory signs and old photographs, the construction of the first line in Europe inaugurated on 2nd May 1896.… Read the rest here →