Useful Budapest travel resources
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: Roosevelt tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér
This square was named after F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1933 till 1945 and is marked by a commemorative plaque at the corner of József Attila Street on the wall of the Ministry of the Interior.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Science Academy
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9.
A neo-Renaissance building dating from the 19th Century, attributed to the architect from Berlin Friedrich August Stüler. Count István Széchenyi offered, during the first Diet in 1825-1827, one year of his income to build it.… Read the rest here →
Name: Tabán
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1016 Budapest, Kőmuves lépcső
This quarter spreads out from the foot of mount Gellért to the foot of the hillside of the castle. The name tabán is a name of Turkish origin that means a tannery.… Read the rest here →
Name: Elisabeth Bridge
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1013 Budapest, Erzsébet híd
This modern suspension bridge bears the name of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, wife of François-Joseph, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in a word, Sissi.… Read the rest here →