Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Tabán
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1016 Budapest, Kőmuves lépcső
This quarter spreads out from the foot of mount Gellért to the foot of the hillside of the castle. The name tabán is a name of Turkish origin that means a tannery.… Read the rest here →
Name: Elisabeth Bridge
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1013 Budapest, Erzsébet híd
This modern suspension bridge bears the name of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, wife of François-Joseph, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in a word, Sissi.… 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: Museum of Commerce and Hostelry
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1014 Budapest, Korona tér 1.
It will make you relive the period of the development of trade in Hungary and tourism in Budapest. Already for the exhibition of the Thousandth Anniversary in 1896 the city had achieved some feats in the field of catering and hostelry.… Read the rest here →
Name: Országház Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Országház utca
The main artery for the quarter of the castle in the Middle Ages, this “street of the Parliament” has borne its current name since 1790.… Read the rest here →