Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Bem József tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Bem József tér
This square was the centre for the meetings during the insurrection of October 1956. József Bem (1794-1850) is in fact a symbol for the Hungarians.… Read the rest here →
Name: Országház Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Országház utca
The main artery for the quarter of the castle in the Middle Ages, this “street of the Parliament” has borne its current name since 1790.… Read the rest here →
Name: Szent György tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér
This square which stretches out in front of the main entrance to the castle is overlooked by two buildings on the right-hand side: the Neo-Gothic Sándor palace and former residence of the Prime Minister and the Castle theatre (Várszínház) with a Rococo façade, which was a former convent of the Carmelite order, which was dissolved in 1782 under the orders of Joseph II and altered by Farkas Kempelen in 1787.… Read the rest here →
Name: Dísz tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Dísz tér
Known as the Pasha’s square, St. George’s square and since the 19th century, as Parade square, it was the centre of the castle district during the Middle Ages.… Read the rest here →
Name: Tárnok Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Tárnok utca
A busy trading area in the Middle Ages (German merchants), Treasurer ‘s Street, is edged with beautiful houses with painted façades, corbelled balaconies and Baroque decorative touches.… Read the rest here →