Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Bécsi kapu tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Bécsi kapu tér
On this peaceful square surrounded by small petites houses with multi-coloured rococo style façades multicoloured decorated with stuccos (see Nos. 3 and 5) where the Saturday market was once held.… Read the rest here →
Name: Park of Europe
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hunfalvy utca
The park of Europe (Európaliget) was set up in 1973 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Budapest. The mayors of several European capitals and large cities were invites to come here to planter a tree thus marking the event.… 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 →
Name: Tárnok Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Tárnok utca
A busy trading area in the Middle Ages (German merchants), Treasurer ‘s Street, is edged with beautiful houses with painted façades, corbelled balaconies and Baroque decorative touches.… Read the rest here →