Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Ferenciek tere
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere
From this very busy square, an underground passageway allows you to return to the pedestrian quarter of Váci Street. From the exit from the underground passageway, you will see both Elisabeth bridge and Mount Gellért in the background.… Read the rest here →
Name: Fő utca
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Fő utca
The main street in the quarter of Víziváros stretches out in parallel to the Danube. At No. 7, the French Institute opened in 1992. On the other side of the street, a small Baroque house holds a French restaurant, the “Jardin de Paris”.… Read the rest here →
Name: Batthyány Square
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1011 Budapest, Batthyány tér.
A revolving plaque for urban transportation, highly practical for the tourists and which bears the name of Count Lajos Batthyány, head of the first Hungarian government in 1848.… Read the rest here →
Name: Bem József tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Bem József tér
This square was the centre for the meetings during the insurrection of October 1956. József Bem (1794-1850) is in fact a symbol for the Hungarians.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kapisztrán tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Kapisztrán tér.
This square owes its name and dedicates a monument to the monk János Kapisztrán (1386-1456) who fought the Turks with János Hunyadi. Do not miss the remains of the Saint Madeleine Church and the visit to the Military History Museum.… Read the rest here →