Useful Budapest travel resources
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 →
Name: Szervita tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Szervita tér
From the centre of this square you can get a good look at the mosaic in the Art nouveau or Secession style, which decorates the upper part of a building occupied on the ground floor by a clothes shop (No.… Read the rest here →
Name: Vigadó tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Vigadó tér
In the tourist season this square on the banks of the Danube brims over with activities, the terraces of the restaurants are fit to burst.… Read the rest here →
Name: Március 15 tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1056 Budapest, Március 15 tér
The name of this square which stands near to Elisabeth bridge recalls the first jour of the revolution of 1848. Below it, you can see some remains from an entrenched field from the Roman era called Contra Aquincum.… Read the rest here →
Name: Ferenciek tere
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere
From this very busy square, an underground passageway allows you to return to the pedestrian quarter of Váci Street. From the exit from the underground passageway, you will see both Elisabeth bridge and Mount Gellért in the background.… Read the rest here →