Useful Budapest travel resources
The famous buildings of the capital’s premier park were erected by enthusiastic Budapest citizens to commemorate the country’s millennium in 1896.
At the imposing Hősök tere (Heroes’ square) the Archangel Gabriel raises the Holy Crown to a height of 36 m.… Read the rest here →
A buzz with pavement cafés, street artists, vendors, boutiques and nightclubs, the dowtown (belváros in Hungarian) or Inner City is the hub of Pest and, for tourists at least, the epicentre of what’s happening. Commerce and pleasure have been its lifeblood as long as Pest has existed, first as a medieval market town and later as the kernel of a city whose belle époque rivalled Vienna’s.… Read the rest here →
Name: Parish church of Óbuda
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1036 Budapest, Lajos utca 168.
In the Baroque style, the Parish Church of Óbuda was built for the Zichy family in the 18th Century. On the façade, two niches hold the statues of Saint Sébastien and Saint Roch.… Read the rest here →
Name: Művész Cake Shop and Tea Room
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 29.
You will notice that this establishment has conserved its charm from the 1900s. A good address for tasting a nice gateau and a good cup of coffee!… Read the rest here →
Name: Flórián tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1033 Budapest, Flórián tér.
In the neighbourhood of this main crossroads of Óbuda where several main roads meet, from the excavations carried out at the time of the construction of the road that was dug up, have allowed the fragments of the thermal baths taken from of the military stronghold to be updated (caldarium or hot bath, frigidarium or cold bath).… Read the rest here →