Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Bem József tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Bem József tér
This square was the centre for the meetings during the insurrection of October 1956. József Bem (1794-1850) is in fact a symbol for the Hungarians.… Read the rest here →
Name: Szentháromság Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság utca
At No. 7, you have to queue up in the tourist season before Ruszwurm Cukrászda (a cake shop founded in 1827) to buy one of its superb gateaux or to sit down in the small adjoining room.… Read the rest here →
Name: Monument to Saint Gellért
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1118 Budapest, Szent Gellért szobor
Canonised in 1083, Saint Gellért is a highly cherished character in Hungary. The monumental statue in bronze is the work of Gyula Jankovits (1904).… Read the rest here →
Name: Szentháromság tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér.
Carriages await the visitors on the main square in the castle district, around the Trinity column built to commemorate the plague epidemics in the 17th and 18th century.… Read the rest here →
Name: The house of Hungarian wines
Category: Industrial tourism and theme park
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér 6.
A brief stop can easily turn into a long pause in the house of Hungarian wines! Even though tokaj is still the best known Hungarian wine abroad, there are still other names to be discovered.… Read the rest here →