Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Great Boulevard
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1091 Budapest, Klauzál tér
Between the Petőfi and Marguerite bridges a sort of circular boulevard stretches out, made up in fact by five boulevards : Ferenc, József , Erzsébet , Teréz and Szt.… Read the rest here →
Name: Batthyány Square
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1011 Budapest, Batthyány tér.
A revolving plaque for urban transportation, highly practical for the tourists and which bears the name of Count Lajos Batthyány, head of the first Hungarian government in 1848.… Read the rest here →
Name: Bem József tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1027 Budapest, Bem József tér
This square was the centre for the meetings during the insurrection of October 1956. József Bem (1794-1850) is in fact a symbol for the Hungarians.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kapisztrán tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Kapisztrán tér.
This square owes its name and dedicates a monument to the monk János Kapisztrán (1386-1456) who fought the Turks with János Hunyadi. Do not miss the remains of the Saint Madeleine Church and the visit to the Military History Museum.… Read the rest here →
Name: Szentháromság Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság utca
At No. 7, you have to queue up in the tourist season before Ruszwurm Cukrászda (a cake shop founded in 1827) to buy one of its superb gateaux or to sit down in the small adjoining room.… Read the rest here →