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Andrássy Avenue
Andrássy Avenue is a 2,310-metre boulevard lined with buildings in uniform architecture and linking the City Centre with the City Park. Andrássy ...
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Buda Castle
The first, Gothic style palace was built during the reign of Louis the Great, King Sigismund and King Matthias (from the middle of the 14th century ...
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Buda castle district
The Castle Hill was first populated and surrounded by walls by the Hungarians after the Mongol attack of 1241-1242, which devastated most of Hungary. ...
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Buda castle funicular
The Budapest Castle Hill Funicular or Budavári Sikló is a funicular railway in the city of Budapest, in Hungary. It links the Adam Clark Square and ...
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Buda Castle Tunnel
Those coming from the Pest end had to walk round the Castle Hill on the Buda side to be able to proceed northwards. On 10 February 1853, four years ...
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Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden
The Budapest Zoo, built in 1866, is the oldest and largest zoo park of Hungary. Until the 1950s, it was the sole zoo park of the country. Its ...
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Castle Vajdahunyad
The biggest museum of agriculture in Europe can be found in the Castle of Vajdahunyad on the Széchenyi-island in Városliget, Budapest in outstanding ...
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Central market hall
The Central Market Hall (Hungarian "Nagycsarnok"), on Fővám Tér in the 9th district, is the largest indoor market in Budapest. It was designed and ...
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Citadel
The Gellért Hill is the capital’s popular excursion place. The Citadel can also be found here. It used to be a fortress, which was erected in 1854 by ...
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Fishermen's bastion
The main façade of the Fisherman’s Bastion, running parallel to the Danube, is approximately 140 metres long. The seven stone towers with their ...
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Former Institute of Ballett (Dreschler Palace)
The Dreschler Palace, located opposite the Opera House, was built between 1883 and 1886 on the plans of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos. The premises ...
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Fő utca and Víziváros
Fő utca used to be one of Buda's most important streets (the translation is "Main Street"), bustling with commerce from as early as the 18th century. ...
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Gellért Hill
Gellért Hill is a 235 m high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. It is part of the 1st and 11th Districts. Gellért Hill was named after ...
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Gresham Palace
An outstanding piece of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture. Completed in 1907 on the plans of Zsigmond Quittner and the Vágó brothers, it served as ...
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Heroes Square
Located at the end of Andrássy Avenue, Heroes’ Square is the entrance to the City Park as well as one of the most spectacular venues in Budapest. The ...
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Hilton Buda
One of Budapest’s best located hotels is the 5-star Hilton Buda, superbly situated right next to the Matthias Church and the Fishermen’s Bastion. ...
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Hungarian Academy of Sciences
A nationwide campaign was started to raise money for the building in 1860, with the design competition launched in 1861. Construction works begun in ...
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Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Mano House
The Hungarian House of Photography, uniquely in Europe, was built for the purpose of exhibiting photography. A multi-storey building under historical ...
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Ice-Skating rink and Lake
Europe’s largest ice-skating rink is located at the edge of the City Park, enclosed between Heroes’ Square and Vajdahunyad Castle. This is the second ...
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Keleti Railway Station
Budapest Keleti pályaudvar is the largest among the three main railway stations in Budapest. It can be found in the 8th district, on Baross Square. ...
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King's Hotel
Newly renovated King's Hotel is situated in Budapest downtown. Reconstructed, modernized, the original secession building is over 100 years old. The ...
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Kodály körönd
Kodály Körönd is one of the two squares on Andrássy út (the other one is Oktogon). The four buildings on the square form a full circle, with Andrássy ...
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Kozma street jewish cemetery
The Kozma Street Cemetery is the biggest Jewish cemetery of Budapest, Hungary. It is located next to the New Public Cemetery. The Jewish cemetery, ...
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Liberty Statue
The Szabadság Szobor or Statue of Liberty in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from ...
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Mikve (Ritual Jewish Bath)
The only ritual Jewish bathhouse in Budapest, in strict compliance with the regulations forbidding the use of public network water.
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Millennium monument
At the front of the monument is a large stone cenotaph surrounded by an ornamental iron chain. The cenotaph is dedicated "To the memory of the heroes ...
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Millennium underground
The first metro line was conceived as a means of carrying passengers from the city centre to the City Park without the need for surface transport on ...
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Parliament
The Parliament, built in Neo-Gothic style and located on the bank of the Danube, serves as the permanent seat of the National Assembly. The building ...
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Párizsi Nagyáruház
The Párizsi Nagyáruház, which opened in 1910, was the first significant department store building in Budapest. Its facade towards Andrássy Avenue was ...
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Raoul Wallenberg’s statue in Buda
A statue by Imre Varga of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved many Jewish lives, erected in the year 1987. The bronze statue was built ...
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Shoes on the Danube embankment
This world-famous composition, which comprises 60 pairs of metal shoes set in concrete on the Danube embankment, was set up in the year 2005. It ...
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Western Railway Station
Budapest-Nyugati pályaudvar (Budapest-Western Railway Terminal) is one of the three main railway terminals of Budapest, Hungary. It lies at the ...
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