Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Fő utca
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Fő utca
The main street in the quarter of Víziváros stretches out in parallel to the Danube. At No. 7, the French Institute opened in 1992. On the other side of the street, a small Baroque house holds a French restaurant, the “Jardin de Paris”.… Read the rest here →
Name: Telephone Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Országház utca 30.
In the age of the cellular telephone, this Museum allows us to take a small leap back in time for those who are interested in this means of communication which has changed our lives.… Read the rest here →
Name: Batthyány Square
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1011 Budapest, Batthyány tér.
A revolving plaque for urban transportation, highly practical for the tourists and which bears the name of Count Lajos Batthyány, head of the first Hungarian government in 1848.… Read the rest here →
Name: Szent György tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér
This square which stretches out in front of the main entrance to the castle is overlooked by two buildings on the right-hand side: the Neo-Gothic Sándor palace and former residence of the Prime Minister and the Castle theatre (Várszínház) with a Rococo façade, which was a former convent of the Carmelite order, which was dissolved in 1782 under the orders of Joseph II and altered by Farkas Kempelen in 1787.… Read the rest here →
Name: Dísz tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Dísz tér
Known as the Pasha’s square, St. George’s square and since the 19th century, as Parade square, it was the centre of the castle district during the Middle Ages.… Read the rest here →