Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Marguerite Bridge
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1033 Budapest, Margit híd
It was built from 1872 to 1876 by a French company using the plans by Ernest Gouin. It is made up by two arms joined together at the height of Marguerite Isle at an angle of 150°.… Read the rest here →
Name: Planetarium
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1476 Budapest, Népliget
To the South-East of the Large Boulevard, in the People’s wood, Népliget, an immense dome 23 m in diameter signals the planetarium from where you get on board to travel to the stars.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Natural History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13.
Near Orczy Kert, a park planted with a hundred species of trees, this museum, through its exhibition “Man and Nature in Hungary”, shows to what point man, since his appearance on earth, has used nature to ensure his own existence.… Read the rest here →
Name: Peuple’s Stadium
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1143 Budapest, Istvánmezei út 1-3.
In 1997, the People’s Stadium (Népstadion) which forms part of an immense sports ground held the European Athletics Championships. Take the big road Ifjúság útja lined with monumental sculptural groups exalting sport and the army.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kerepesi temető
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1087 Budapest, Fiumei út 16.
Budapest like all capital cities has its own cemetery, its national pantheon, where celebrities are buried. In this vast landscaped space, the most impressive monument or rather the mausoleum is undoubtedly that of Lajos Kossuth which dominates the whole cemetery.… Read the rest here →