Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Kodály Zoltán Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 89.
With Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály deeply changed Hungarian music in the 20th Century The apartment that he lived in from March 1924 till his death in March 1967 contains some mementoes of the great composer: pianos, library and books, bureau, scores.… Read the rest here →
Name: Far East Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 103.
Internet: http://www.hoppmuzeum.hu
Ferenc Hopp (1833-1919), an optician and great traveller within his state, donated to the state the objects brought back from many trips to Asia.… Read the rest here →
Name: Jewish Quarter
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1062 Budapest, Károly Körút
Cut off along its main lines by Káróly körút, Erzsébet körút, Dohány Street and Király Street, the Jewish Quarter is a good area to go for a walk: thus you would duiscover along the streets a particular atmosphere, whilst imagining who reigned here in other times.… 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 →
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 →