Useful Budapest travel resources
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 →
Name: Hess András tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hess András tér.
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 →
Name: Holocaust Memorial Centre
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 39.
Internet: www.hdke.hu
Opened in 2004, the Holocaust Memorial Centre is both a museum and an educational research centre. Its presentation of the Holocaust in Hungary is deeply moving, from the denial of the rights of victims (Jews and Roma), to their extermination, by means of a modern and powerful exhibition (soundtracks, film projections, photos, interactive terminals, maps etc).… Read the rest here →
Name: The University Church
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1053 Budapest, Papnövelde utca 7.
It is undoubtedly the best appreciated Baroque Church in the city. Originally it formed part of a convent of nuns from the order of Saint Paul, the only religious order founded in Hungary in the 13th Century and abolished in 1782.… Read the rest here →