Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Chapel of the Grotto
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1013 Budapest, Sziklatemplom
Opposite the entrance to the Gellért baths, metal railings open out over the grotto divided into several chapels dug into the bare rock. One of them houses the Polish eagle and a replica of the famous Black Virgin from of the monastery of Jasna Góra (Cz?stochowa,… Read the rest here →
Name: Tabán
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1016 Budapest, Kőmuves lépcső
This quarter spreads out from the foot of mount Gellért to the foot of the hillside of the castle. The name tabán is a name of Turkish origin that means a tannery.… Read the rest here →
Name: Elisabeth Bridge
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1013 Budapest, Erzsébet híd
This modern suspension bridge bears the name of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, wife of François-Joseph, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in a word, Sissi.… Read the rest here →
Name: Monument of the Thousandth Anniversary
Category: Archaeological and historical sites
Location: 1068 Budapest, Hősök tere
As its name says, this monument commemorates one thousand years since the Magyar conquest and it was inaugurated in 1896. This column that is 36 m high and topped by the Archangel Gabriel carrying the Hungarian crown and the apostolic cross and launching himself triumphantly towards heaven, attracts all the looks on Hero’s square.… 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 →