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Országhaz (Parliament)
LIPÓTVÁROS, DISTRICT V AND XIII
Plaza Kossuth
}01 441 4000; www.parlament.hu
“The motherland does not have a house,” lamented Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty in 1846. In response to the growing se…
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Gozsdu Udvar
ERZSÉBETVÁROS, DISTRICT VII
Between Király utca 13 and Dob utca 16
A 200m stretch of six connected courtyards under six apartment and office buildings, the walkway feels like a secret lit…
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Andrássy Út
TERÉZVÁROS, DISTRICT VI
Hungary’s grandest boulevard, Andrássy út extends from Erzsébet tér northeast to Heroes’ Square (Hősök tér). Its elegant…
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Nyugati Pályaudvar
TERÉZVÁROS, DISTRICT VI
A brand-spanking new nook next to the train station, transformed from a parking lot to a grassy knoll for reading and lo…
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Eiffel Tér
TERÉZVÁROS, DISTRICT VI
www.eiffelter.hu
This railway station is smaller than its eastern cousin, though it has the advantage of being in a neighborhood you’ll a…
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Hősök tere (Heroes’ Square)
THE VÁROSLIGET (CITY PARK)
At the Heroes’ Square end of Andrássy út, the Millennium Monument commemorates Hungary’s heroes. Built for the city’s mi…
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Széchenyi-Gyógyfürdő (Széchenyi Baths)
THE VÁROSLIGET (CITY PARK)
Állatkerti körút 11
}363 32 10; www.szechenyibath.com
Statues and a fountain adorn the Neo-Baroque exterior of the biggest and one of the most luxurious bath complexes in Eur…
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Royal Palace
VARHEGY, CENTRAL BUDA, AND THE VIZIVAROS
Szent György tér 2
Towering above the Danube on Várhegy, the Castle District has had something of a rough history. Built between the 12th a…
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Fisherman’s Bastion (Halászbástya)
VARHEGY, CENTRAL BUDA, AND THE VIZIVAROS
Szentháromság tér
Named for the fisherman’s guild that was charged with defending this stretch of Castle Hill during the Middle Ages, Fish…
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Matthias Church (Mátyás Templom)
VARHEGY, CENTRAL BUDA, AND THE VIZIVAROS
Szentháromság tér 2
; www.matyas-templom.hu
The colorful roof of Matthias Church on Castle Hill is one of Budapest’s most photographed sights. The church was conver…
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Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd)
VARHEGY, CENTRAL BUDA, AND THE VIZIVAROS
Built in 1849, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Budapest and one of the lo…
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Liberty Monument (Szabadság Szobor)
GELLÉRT HEGY (GELLÉRT HILL)
Gellért Hill
Visible from all over the city, Budapest’s Liberty Monument has a complicated history. One story goes that the figure wa…
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Pál-Völgyi And Mátyás Caves
ÓBUDA
}325 95 05; www.caving.hu
Budapest is famous for its thermal baths, but few people know that the heated water that eats up entire afternoons has a…
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Memento Park (Szoborpark)
OUTER BUDA
On the corner of Balatoni út and Szabadkai utca
; www.mementopark.hu
While in the rest of the former Soviet republics people were happily dismantling and demolishing the symbols of their ha…
Grand Market Hall (Nagycsarnok)
THE BELVÁROS, DISTRICT V
Váci utca and Vámház körút
While it looks more like the Nyugati train station, this hall was built in 1894 to emulate the trend of indoor markets i…
University Church
THE BELVÁROS, DISTRICT V
Papnövelde utca 7
Once the site of a Turkish mosque, University Square is accented by the glowing orange Baroque architecture of Universit…
Erzsébet Tér
THE BELVÁROS, DISTRICT V
The largest green space in the downtown Pest area, this unassuming chunk of nature has undergone a series of name change…
Saint Stephen’s Basilica (Szt. István Bazilika)
LIPÓTVÁROS, DISTRICT V AND XIII
Hercegprímás utca 7
Completed in 1905 after 50 years of construction, this towering monument and its majestic cupola smile on Budapest’s Wal…
Liberty Square
LIPÓTVÁROS, DISTRICT V AND XIII
Szabadság Tér 8-9
}01 428 2752; www.english.mnb.hu
Built on the site of a former prison facility meant to tame rebellious Hungarians, the square is now a green space with …
Synagogue and Jewish Museum
ERZSÉBETVÁROS, DISTRICT VII
Corner of Dohány utca and Wesselényi utca.
}3670 533 5696; www.greatsynagogue.hu
The largest synagogue in Europe and the second-largest in the world, Pest’s Great Synagogue (Zsinagóga) was built in 185…

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