Useful Budapest travel resources
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 →
Name: The castle district
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér
After strolling around the castle walls and enjoying the views or visiting a museum, why not enjoy the delights of wandering through the old part, where you can stop here and there to look at a shop window, a façade, a monument, to capture it on your video or in a photo.… Read the rest here →
Name: Mathias Church
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér
The church that can be seen today is the work of Frigyes Schulek. From the outside, you can see the Mathias tower which rises up towards the sky, the Romanesque Béla tower, the main portal with a tympanum showing the Virgin Mary with child and Mary’s door, which dates back to Louis I, the Great.… Read the rest here →