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: Hold Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1093 Budapest, Hold utca
This is where you will find one of the works by Ödön Lechner who appears in almost all the works dealing with the Secession style in Budapest: the building of the former Post Office Savings Bank.… 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: Jubilee Park
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella Sétány
This park (Jubileumi park) was inaugurated for the fortieth anniversary of the Revolution of October. On the Southern side of mount Gellert, it is a place to go walking which has plenty of interest, well set out, with its shady pathways, its flower beds and lawns.… Read the rest here →
Name: Chapel of the Grotto
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1013 Budapest, Sziklatemplom
Opposite the entrance to the Gellért baths, metal railings open out over the grotto divided into several chapels dug into the bare rock. One of them houses the Polish eagle and a replica of the famous Black Virgin from of the monastery of Jasna Góra (Cz?stochowa,… Read the rest here →