Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Parish Church of Tabán
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1016 Budapest, Attila utca 11.
The Parish Church for the quarter of Tabán is the only sign of the age of the Serbian tanners which has survived the demolition by the bulldozers in the 1930s.… Read the rest here →
Name: Medical History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1013 Budapest, Apród utca 1-3.
This museum is installed in the house where Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born (1818-1865), a gynaecologist in his state, a specialist in infectious diseases. He is buried in the garden.… 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: House of Hungarian Photography
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 20.
The house where the distinguished Hungarian photographer Mai Manó once lived now houses a photography museum in the heart of the theatre district. Temporary photography exhibitions – both Hungarian and foreign – are organised in this beautiful late-19C building, which features a magnificent stairwell with a wrought-iron banister, frescoes, stuccowork, Miksa Róth stained-glass windows and a glass-roofed studio.… Read the rest here →
Name: Országház Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Országház utca
The main artery for the quarter of the castle in the Middle Ages, this “street of the Parliament” has borne its current name since 1790.… Read the rest here →