Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Hilton Hotel
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hess András tér 1-3.
This modern establishment which is out of place in an area with a preservation order, was built on the site of a former convent.… Read the rest here →
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: 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: Szent György tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szent György tér
This square which stretches out in front of the main entrance to the castle is overlooked by two buildings on the right-hand side: the Neo-Gothic Sándor palace and former residence of the Prime Minister and the Castle theatre (Várszínház) with a Rococo façade, which was a former convent of the Carmelite order, which was dissolved in 1782 under the orders of Joseph II and altered by Farkas Kempelen in 1787.… Read the rest here →
Name: Fishermen’s Bastion
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hunyadi János út.
This set of ramparts and turrets (finished in 1906) calls to mind a castle right out of a fairytale. The seven turrets symbolise the seven Magyar tribes and each tribal leader is represented by a statue.… Read the rest here →