Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Endre Ady Appartment-Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Veres Pálné utca 4-6.
It is the apartment-museum of a great name in Hungarian literature : Endre Ady (1877-1919). The furniture which adorn the office, the dining room and the bedroom, evoke the two last two years of the poet’s life.… 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: Petőfi Literary Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály utca 16.
This literary museum which bears the name of the famous poet Sándor Petőfi (statue on the staircase), occupies the former palace of the counts of Károlyi.… Read the rest here →
Name: Monument to Saint Gellért
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1118 Budapest, Szent Gellért szobor
Canonised in 1083, Saint Gellért is a highly cherished character in Hungary. The monumental statue in bronze is the work of Gyula Jankovits (1904).… Read the rest here →
Name: Citadel
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella sétány
Built in 1851 at the order of François-Joseph, it crowns the top of mount Gellért. The Hungarian revolt of 1848-1849 having “shook” the Austrians, who saw in this defensive works a means to control the city.… Read the rest here →