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: Hungarian National Gallery
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér.
Internet: http://www.mng.hu
For a truly classic exhibition explore the National Gallery (Nemzeti Galéria). Here you can progress through the treasures of art history century by century and the panorama from the windows will leave you breathless.… Read the rest here →
Name: Ludwig Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
Internet: http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu
This museum is a real must if you are a lover of contemporary art! Among the best known names illustrating the important trends in contemporary art throughout the world, you will see works by Roy Liechstenstein, Jean Tinguely, Frank Stella, Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg or Claus Oldenburg.… Read the rest here →