Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Kodály körönd
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1062 Budapest, Kodály körönd
An elegant square with four symmetrical buildings in a circle arch. Four impressive statues of people depicted in the struggle against the Turks decorate the lawns.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hold Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1093 Budapest, Hold utca
This is where you will find one of the works by Ödön Lechner who appears in almost all the works dealing with the Secession style in Budapest: the building of the former Post Office Savings Bank.… Read the rest here →
Name: Roosevelt tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér
This square was named after F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1933 till 1945 and is marked by a commemorative plaque at the corner of József Attila Street on the wall of the Ministry of the Interior.… Read the rest here →
Name: Hungarian Science Academy
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1051 Budapest, Roosevelt tér 9.
A neo-Renaissance building dating from the 19th Century, attributed to the architect from Berlin Friedrich August Stüler. Count István Széchenyi offered, during the first Diet in 1825-1827, one year of his income to build it.… Read the rest here →
Name: Small Boulevard
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1052 Budapest, Kiskörút
The Small Boulevard (Kiskörút), as it is known locally, marks out a curve, following Deák tér, Károly körút, Museum körut, Kálvin tér and Vámház körút. Between this limit and the Danube the historical centre is buried.… Read the rest here →