Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Jewish Quarter
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1062 Budapest, Károly Körút
Cut off along its main lines by Káróly körút, Erzsébet körút, Dohány Street and Király Street, the Jewish Quarter is a good area to go for a walk: thus you would duiscover along the streets a particular atmosphere, whilst imagining who reigned here in other times.… Read the rest here →
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: 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: Deák Ferenc tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák Ferenc tér
A strategic point for all those who visit Budapest: all the metro lines stop here, as well as the bus lines and tramways.… Read the rest here →
Name: Museum of the Metro
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1052 Budapest, Deák tér
In Deák ter metro station, take a tour around this small museum. An old station with its ticket-puncher will greet you. Along the platform you can follow, with the aid of some explanatory signs and old photographs, the construction of the first line in Europe inaugurated on 2nd May 1896.… Read the rest here →