Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Andrássy út
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út.
After a trip to Paris in 1858 Count Gyula Andrássy had the idea to cut out a large thoroughfare linking the Small Boulevard to the Bois-de-Ville.… Read the rest here →
Name: National Opera House
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 22.
Internet: http://www.opera.hu
The neo-Renaissance Opera designed by Miklós Ybl and opened in 1884 is so attractive that those with the slightest desire to sit through a performance will definitely want to experience the allure of the historical stage.… Read the rest here →
Name: City Wood
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György.
This park which was home in 1896 to the 1000 yr festivities celebrating the conquest of the basin of the Carpathians by the Magyars, which in 15C was just a marsh.… Read the rest here →
Name: Margaret Island
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1138 Budapest, Hajós Alfréd Sétány
There are a number of beautiful places around Budapest where it’s worth to get out to if you’re fed up with the noise of the city and wish for some green.… 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 →