Batthyány Square

Name: Batthyány Square
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1011 Budapest, Batthyány tér.

Description

 

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 →

Dísz tér

Name: Dísz tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Dísz tér

Description

Known as the Pasha’s square, St. George’s square and since the 19th century, as Parade square, it was the centre of the castle district during the Middle Ages.… Read the rest here →

Tárnok Street

Name: Tárnok Street
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Tárnok utca

Description

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 →

Szentháromság tér

Name: Szentháromság tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér.

Description

Carriages await the visitors on the main square in the castle district, around the Trinity column built to commemorate the plague epidemics in the 17th and 18th century.… Read the rest here →

Hess András tér

Name: Hess András tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1014 Budapest, Hess András tér.

Description

This square is named after the first printer to set up here in 1483. He published Buda’s chronicals, the first book to be written in Hungarian.… Read the rest here →