Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Monument to Saint Gellért
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1118 Budapest, Szent Gellért szobor
Canonised in 1083, Saint Gellért is a highly cherished character in Hungary. The monumental statue in bronze is the work of Gyula Jankovits (1904).… Read the rest here →
Name: Citadel
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella sétány
Built in 1851 at the order of François-Joseph, it crowns the top of mount Gellért. The Hungarian revolt of 1848-1849 having “shook” the Austrians, who saw in this defensive works a means to control the city.… Read the rest here →
Name: Monument to the Liberation
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella sétány
A colossal monument like the ones you find in several central European countries, built in 1947 in memory of the liberation of the city by the soldiers of the Red Army.… Read the rest here →
Name: Jubilee Park
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1118 Budapest, Citadella Sétány
This park (Jubileumi park) was inaugurated for the fortieth anniversary of the Revolution of October. On the Southern side of mount Gellert, it is a place to go walking which has plenty of interest, well set out, with its shady pathways, its flower beds and lawns.… Read the rest here →
Name: Chapel of the Grotto
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1013 Budapest, Sziklatemplom
Opposite the entrance to the Gellért baths, metal railings open out over the grotto divided into several chapels dug into the bare rock. One of them houses the Polish eagle and a replica of the famous Black Virgin from of the monastery of Jasna Góra (Cz?stochowa,… Read the rest here →