Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Eastern Railway Station
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1087 Budapest, Kerepesi út 2-6.
The largest station in the capital (international traffic) has a façade in the eclectic style. There you can see the statues of James Watt, inventor of the steam engine and George Stephenson, inventor of the steam locomotive.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Science Academy
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9.
A neo-Renaissance building dating from the 19th Century, attributed to the architect from Berlin Friedrich August Stüler. Count István Széchenyi offered, during the first Diet in 1825-1827, one year of his income to build it.… Read the rest here →
Name: Small Boulevard
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Kiskörút
The Small Boulevard (Kiskörút), as it is known locally, marks out a curve, following Deák tér, Károly körút, Museum körut, Kálvin tér and Vámház körút. Between this limit and the Danube the historical centre is buried.… Read the rest here →
Name: Deák Ferenc tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák Ferenc tér
A strategic point for all those who visit Budapest: all the metro lines stop here, as well as the bus lines and tramways.… 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 →