Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Hungarian Agriculture Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1146 Budapest, Vajdahunyadvár
This museum offers a large exhibition on working the land, breeding, fishing, hunting, sylviculture and viticulture in the past and in the present. The explanatory panels are in English and in Hungarian.… Read the rest here →
Name: Zoo
Category: Industrial tourism and theme park
Location: 1146 Budapest, Állatkerti krt 6-12.
Internet: http://www.zoobudapest.com/en
This zoo which opened up in 1866 is considered to be one of the oldest zoos in the world! It houses over 500 mammals, 700 birds and 1,500 reptiles and fish.… Read the rest here →
Name: Eastern Railway Station
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1087 Budapest, Kerepesi út 2-6.
The largest station in the capital (international traffic) has a façade in the eclectic style. There you can see the statues of James Watt, inventor of the steam engine and George Stephenson, inventor of the steam locomotive.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kossuth Lajos tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér
In this large square, on 23rd October 1989 a huge crowd massed, that had come to celebrate the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic.… Read the rest here →
Name: Jewish Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 2.
The history of the Jewish Community in Hungary, Jewish traditions, the holocaust are just some of the very well depicted subjects in this museum using explanatory panels (in English, Hungarian and Hebrew), with objects of worship, of ceremony, manuscripts, textiles and paintings.… Read the rest here →