Useful Budapest travel resources
Name: Endre Ady Appartment-Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Veres Pálné utca 4-6.
It is the apartment-museum of a great name in Hungarian literature : Endre Ady (1877-1919). The furniture which adorn the office, the dining room and the bedroom, evoke the two last two years of the poet’s life.… Read the rest here →
Name: Léopold Town
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1055 Budapest, Leopoldváros
The sector of Lipótváros takes its name from Leopold II, King of Hungary from 1790 to 1792. It is there where, amongst other, there are the magnificentParliament building, the Museum of Ethnography, the Saint Étienne basilica, the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.… Read the rest here →
Name: Petőfi Literary Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály utca 16.
This literary museum which bears the name of the famous poet Sándor Petőfi (statue on the staircase), occupies the former palace of the counts of Károlyi.… Read the rest here →
Name: Kossuth Lajos tér
Category: Architecture, castles and historic districts
Location: 1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér
In this large square, on 23rd October 1989 a huge crowd massed, that had come to celebrate the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic.… Read the rest here →
Name: Jewish Museum
Category: Museums and art
Location: 1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 2.
The history of the Jewish Community in Hungary, Jewish traditions, the holocaust are just some of the very well depicted subjects in this museum using explanatory panels (in English, Hungarian and Hebrew), with objects of worship, of ceremony, manuscripts, textiles and paintings.… Read the rest here →