Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Great Boulevard
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1091 Budapest, Klauzál tér
Between the Petőfi and Marguerite bridges a sort of circular boulevard stretches out, made up in fact by five boulevards : Ferenc, József , Erzsébet , Teréz and Szt.… Read the rest here →
Name: Blaha Lujza tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1091 Budapest, Blaha Lujza tér
This important crossroads is located at the junction of the Great Boulevard and Rákóczi street, another large shopping street which extends from Kossuth Lajos Street and leads to the Eastern railway station (Keleti pályaudvar).… Read the rest here →
Name: Léopold Town
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1055 Budapest, Leopoldváros
The sector of Lipótváros takes its name from Leopold II, King of Hungary from 1790 to 1792. It is there where, amongst other, there are the magnificentParliament building, the Museum of Ethnography, the Saint Étienne basilica, the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kossuth Lajos tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér
In this large square, on 23rd October 1989 a huge crowd massed, that had come to celebrate the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic.… Read the rest here →
Name: Vértanúk tere
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1054 Budapest, Vértanúk tere
In this small square you will see the statue of Imre Nagy standing on a bridge, his look turned towards the Parliament. Called to lead the government after the events of October 1956, Imre Nagy pushed through some radical reforms to liberalise the regime and escape from the Soviet yoke.… Read the rest here →