Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Budapest History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér 2.
Internet: www.btm.hu
If you’re interested in what the Castle looked like in the time of King Matthias or the House of Anjou, get on the Buda Castle Funicular and time travel to the Budapest History Museum (Budapesti Történeti Múzeum).… Read the rest here →
Name: Ráth György Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1068 Budapest, Városligeti fasor 12.
A villa in the eclectic style houses this museum entirely dedicated to Indian art and art from the Far East: sculptures, statuettes, jewellery, tapestries. In the part devoted to Japanese art (room 6 and 1st floor), you can admire some beautiful collections of combs made of ivory and golden lacquer ware, pipes and pipe cases as well as a reconstruction of the tea ceremony with all the utensils that are used.… Read the rest here →
Name: Fishermen’s Bastion
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hunyadi János út.
This set of ramparts and turrets (finished in 1906) calls to mind a castle right out of a fairytale. The seven turrets symbolise the seven Magyar tribes and each tribal leader is represented by a statue.… Read the rest here →
Name: Fő tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1033 Budapest, Fő tér
You do not expect to find this small paved square in a very “provincial style” at the foot of impersonal tower blocks. Even the small surrounding streets, with coloured houses and with echoes from another era, are worth taking a short walk.… Read the rest here →
Name: Terror Háza
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 60.
Phone: + 36 1 374-2600
Internet: http://www.terrorhaza.hu
The legendary 60 Andrássy Ave…
This building is not only a museum, but a vivid reminder of two tragic periods in Hungary’s history.… Read the rest here →