Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Kerepesi temető
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1087 Budapest, Fiumei út 16.
Budapest like all capital cities has its own cemetery, its national pantheon, where celebrities are buried. In this vast landscaped space, the most impressive monument or rather the mausoleum is undoubtedly that of Lajos Kossuth which dominates the whole cemetery.… Read the rest here →
Name: Peuple’s Stadium
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1143 Budapest, Istvánmezei út 1-3.
In 1997, the People’s Stadium (Népstadion) which forms part of an immense sports ground held the European Athletics Championships. Take the big road Ifjúság útja lined with monumental sculptural groups exalting sport and the army.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Natural History Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13.
Near Orczy Kert, a park planted with a hundred species of trees, this museum, through its exhibition “Man and Nature in Hungary”, shows to what point man, since his appearance on earth, has used nature to ensure his own existence.… Read the rest here →
Name: Roosevelt tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér
This square was named after F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1933 till 1945 and is marked by a commemorative plaque at the corner of József Attila Street on the wall of the Ministry of the Interior.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Science Academy
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9.
A neo-Renaissance building dating from the 19th Century, attributed to the architect from Berlin Friedrich August Stüler. Count István Széchenyi offered, during the first Diet in 1825-1827, one year of his income to build it.… Read the rest here →