Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Duna-Korzó
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Duna-korzó
If you want to breathe in a good deal of Budapest as keepsake but have no time to see all of the city, take a stroll on Duna-korzó, a promenade by river Danube.… Read the rest here →
A buzz with pavement cafés, street artists, vendors, boutiques and nightclubs, the dowtown (belváros in Hungarian) or Inner City is the hub of Pest and, for tourists at least, the epicentre of what’s happening. Commerce and pleasure have been its lifeblood as long as Pest has existed, first as a medieval market town and later as the kernel of a city whose belle époque rivalled Vienna’s.… Read the rest here →
Name: Villa of Hercules
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1031 Budapest, Szentendrei út 139.
Somewhat swamped in the midst of a group of blocks of buildings, the villa of Hercules, a rich Patrician’s home, owes its name to its pavements made of mosaics depicting the myth of Hercules (3rd Century).… Read the rest here →
Name: Amphitheatre in the civil town
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1031 Budapest, Chemin Szentendrei
Included amongst the remains of the civil town in the Roman era, this amphitheatre, which is smaller than the amphitheatre in the military fortress, could hold 8,000 spectators.… Read the rest here →
Name: Amphitheatre in the military camp
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1036 Budapest, Pacsirtamezo utca 6.
At the time of the Romans, a military camp had been installed on the site of the current suburb of Óbuda. The amphitheatre from this camp is today one of the remains from it.… Read the rest here →