Useful Budapest travel resources
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 →
Name: Parish Church of Tabán
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1016 Budapest, Attila utca 11.
The Parish Church for the quarter of Tabán is the only sign of the age of the Serbian tanners which has survived the demolition by the bulldozers in the 1930s.… Read the rest here →
Name: Saint Florian Chapel
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1027 Budapest, Fő utca 88.
This chapel is a charming small Baroque building built between 1759 and 1760 by the architect Mátyás Nepauer. The statues of Saint Nicolas and of Saint Blaise decorate the façade.… Read the rest here →
Name: Church of the Franciscans
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 2.
It opens out with a porch lined by columns and covered by the coat of arms for the order. On the façade, three niches contain the statues of Saint Peter of Alcantara, Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Francis of Assisi.… Read the rest here →
Name: The University Church
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1053 Budapest, Papnövelde utca 7.
It is undoubtedly the best appreciated Baroque Church in the city. Originally it formed part of a convent of nuns from the order of Saint Paul, the only religious order founded in Hungary in the 13th Century and abolished in 1782.… Read the rest here →