Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Deák Ferenc tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák Ferenc tér
A strategic point for all those who visit Budapest: all the metro lines stop here, as well as the bus lines and tramways.… Read the rest here →
Name: Museum of the Metro
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák tér
In Deák ter metro station, take a tour around this small museum. An old station with its ticket-puncher will greet you. Along the platform you can follow, with the aid of some explanatory signs and old photographs, the construction of the first line in Europe inaugurated on 2nd May 1896.… Read the rest here →
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: Ybl Miklós tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1013 Budapest, Ybl Miklós tér.
In this square there is a monument to the architect Miklós Ybl (1814-1891) and a fine pavilion (it should best be seen in the evening under the spotlights).… Read the rest here →
Name: Clark Ádám tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1013 Budapest, Clark Ádám tér.
A roundabout frequented by thousands of vehicles which come out of or are swallowed by the tunnel crossing the hillside of the castle and which leads to the quarter of Krisztinaváros.… Read the rest here →