Tárnok Street

Name: Tárnok Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Tárnok utca

Description

A busy trading area in the Middle Ages (German merchants), Treasurer ‘s Street, is edged with beautiful houses with painted façades, corbelled balaconies and Baroque decorative touches.… Read the rest here →

The Pharmacy Museum

Name: The Pharmacy Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Tárnok utca 18.

Description

A 15th century merchant’s house which was turned into the Arany Sas pharmacy (the Golden Eagle’s) in the middle of the 18th century. This small museum exhibits pharmaceutical objects, pots and instruments from the 16th to 19th century and an 18th century apothecary has been reconstructed, together with a laboratory that is more like an alchemist’s den.… Read the rest here →

Szentháromság tér

Name: Szentháromság tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér.

Description

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 →

The house of Hungarian wines

Name: The house of Hungarian wines
Category: Industrial tourism and theme park
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér 6.

Description

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 →

Hess András tér

Name: Hess András tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hess András tér.

Description

This square is named after the first printer to set up here in 1483. He published Buda’s chronicals, the first book to be written in Hungarian.… Read the rest here →