Vörösmarty tér

Name: Vörösmarty tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty tér.

Description

 

Located right in the heart of the pedestrian quarter, it is the square where all the tourists pass through at least once. In the centre, a monument to Mihály Vörösmarty, around which, in the Summer, musicians, painters, portrait artists and charicaturists all group together.… Read the rest here →

Váci Street

Name: Váci Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Váci utca

Description

Váci utca has been famous for its shops and promenade since the 18th century. During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states.… Read the rest here →

Paris Thoroughfare

Name: Paris Thoroughfare
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 5.

Description

The thoroughfare called Paris forms part the curiosities in Pest, not for its shops, but for its architecture. Byzantine, Moorish or both together or else Venetian or even Art nouveau, a really strange mixture in any case!… Read the rest here →

Central Market

Name: Central Market
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1093 Budapest, Vámház krt. 1-3.
Opening hours: Mondays: 6am – 5pm, Tuesday – Friday: 6am – 6pm, Saturdays: 6am – 3pm, Sundays: Closed

Description

Continuing up Váci Street, we finally reach the everbuzzing Budapest Central Market Hall with its incredible variety of quality foods.… Read the rest here →

Andrássy út (Avenue)

Name: Andrássy út
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út.

Description

After a trip to Paris in 1858 Count Gyula Andrássy had the idea to cut out a large thoroughfare linking the Small Boulevard to the Bois-de-Ville.… Read the rest here →