Batthyány tér

Batthyany Square (Batthyany ter) is a historic public square on the Buda bank of the Danube in Budapest, occupying a prime riverside position directly opposite the Hungarian Parliament Building on the Pest side of the river. The square is one of the most important transport interchanges and one of the most attractive historic squares of the Buda side, and offers what is widely regarded as the finest head-on view of the great neo-Gothic Parliament building across the water. The square is named a.....

Buda Castle

Buda Castle (Budai var) is the historic royal palace of the kings of Hungary, occupying the southern end of the long Castle Hill ridge that rises above the Buda bank of the Danube in central Budapest. The vast palace complex dominates the Buda skyline and is the centrepiece of the Buda Castle Quarter, which together with the banks of the Danube was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987. The palace today houses the Hungarian National Gallery, the Budapest History Museum and the Nati.....

Budapest Castle Hill Funicular

The Castle Hill Funicular (Budavari Siklo) is a historic funicular railway that climbs the steep western flank of Castle Hill in Budapest, connecting the Buda end of the Szechenyi Chain Bridge at Clark Adam Square to the Buda Castle complex at the top of the ridge. The funicular is one of the oldest funicular railways in the world and is both a working piece of public transport and one of the principal visitor attractions of the Buda Castle Quarter, offering a dramatic short ascent with panorami.....

Budapest City Park

City Park (Varosliget) is the principal public park of Budapest, occupying around a square kilometre of landscaped grounds at the end of the grand Andrassy Avenue beyond Heroes' Square, in the Pest side of the Hungarian capital. The park is one of the oldest public parks in the world to be created deliberately as a public recreation ground rather than a former royal hunting reserve, and is home to a remarkable concentration of the principal cultural and recreational attractions of the city. The.....

Budapest GastroCellar

The Hungarian GastroCellar is a restaurant and guided-tasting venue in the heart of the lively District VI of Budapest, occupying an atmospheric vaulted cellar at Kiraly utca 20, just off the main thoroughfare of the Pest side. The venue specialises in introducing visitors to the depth of Hungarian culinary heritage through a combination of traditional restaurant dining and structured guided tastings of Hungarian wine, palinka fruit brandy and traditional preserves, all served in an intimate und.....

Budapest Pinball Museum

The Budapest Pinball Museum (Flippermuzeum) is one of the largest interactive pinball and arcade-game museums in Europe, occupying a basement space at Radnoti Miklos utca 18 in the Ujlipotvaros district of the Pest side of the Hungarian capital. The museum holds a collection of around 140 working pinball machines and antique coin-operated games spanning more than a century of arcade history, and is distinguished by the fact that every machine in the collection is set to free play, so that visito.....

Budapest Thermal Baths and SPA

Budapest Thermal Baths and Spa is the collective description for the celebrated thermal-bathing culture of the Hungarian capital, which sits atop a remarkable network of natural geothermal springs and is internationally renowned as the City of Spas. Budapest has more thermal springs than any other capital city in the world - around 120 springs feeding the network of historic bath houses across the city - and the thermal-bathing tradition is one of the most distinctive and important features of t.....

Castle District

The Castle District (Varnegyed) is the historic medieval quarter at the heart of the Buda side of Budapest, occupying the long limestone ridge of Castle Hill that rises above the Danube. The district, together with the banks of the Danube and Andrassy Avenue, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987 and is the best-preserved historic quarter of the city, with a network of medieval cobbled streets, Baroque and Gothic houses, churches and the great royal palace at its southern end. .....

Cat Museum Budapest

The Cat Museum Budapest is an interactive art museum and cat sanctuary dedicated to celebrating the cat in art, culture and biology, occupying a building at Vadasz utca 26 in the central District V of the Hungarian capital. The museum combines a gallery of cat-themed art with a porcelain collection, interactive displays, film screenings and - its principal draw - a sanctuary of resident cats that visitors can meet, observe and pet in a controlled and comfortable environment. The museum is laid .....

Central Market Hall

The Central Market Hall (Kozponti Vasarcsarnok), also known as the Great Market Hall (Nagycsarnok), is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest and one of the most distinctive pieces of nineteenth-century iron-and-glass market architecture anywhere in central Europe. The market occupies a vast hall at the Pest end of the Liberty Bridge, at the foot of the principal shopping street of Vaci utca, and is one of the most-visited buildings in the Hungarian capital, drawing both local shoppers.....