Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: The University Church
Category: Religious buildings
Location: 1053 Budapest, Papnövelde utca 7.
It is undoubtedly the best appreciated Baroque Church in the city. Originally it formed part of a convent of nuns from the order of Saint Paul, the only religious order founded in Hungary in the 13th Century and abolished in 1782.… Read the rest here →
Name: Children’s Train
Category: Industrial tourism and theme park
Location: 1014 Budapest, Széchenyi-hegy
To get to the children’s miniature train station (near the television tower), take the train from in front of the Budapest Hotel. This unique attraction is driven by an adult, but all other functions are performed by children aged 10-14, dressed in uniform, who salute sharply as passengers board and alight the train.… Read the rest here →
Name: Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1064 Budapest, Vörösmarty utca 35.
Internet: http://www.lisztmuseum.hu
Everything here is about Liszt. The building on the corner of Vörösmarty Street and Andrássy Avenue accomodates the Liszt Ferenc Research Centre (Liszt Ferenc Kutatóközpont) and Research Library of Musical History on its ground floor, the Memorial Museum on its first floor and the deservedly famous concert hall one floor above.… Read the rest here →
Name: City Wood
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György.
This park which was home in 1896 to the 1000 yr festivities celebrating the conquest of the basin of the Carpathians by the Magyars, which in 15C was just a marsh.… Read the rest here →
Name: Margaret Island
Category: Nature and gardens
Location: 1138 Budapest, Hajós Alfréd Sétány
There are a number of beautiful places around Budapest where it’s worth to get out to if you’re fed up with the noise of the city and wish for some green.… Read the rest here →