Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Monument to the Liberation
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella sétány
A colossal monument like the ones you find in several central European countries, built in 1947 in memory of the liberation of the city by the soldiers of the Red Army.… 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 →
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 →