Andrássy Avenue & M1 Metro
Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
Andrássy Avenue is Budapest's grandest boulevard, stretching 2.
Aquincum Roman Ruins
135 Szentendrei út, District III, Budapest, 1031, Hungary
Two thousand years before Budapest existed, the Romans built a city here and called it Aquincum.
Buda Castle
2 Szent György tér, District I, Budapest, 1014, Hungary
Buda Castle has been built, destroyed, rebuilt, burned, besieged, blown up, and rebuilt again so many times that the current structure is essentially a ghost of a ghost of a ghost.
Buda Castle Labyrinth
9 Úri utca, District I, Budapest, 1014, Hungary
Sixteen metres beneath the cobblestoned streets of the Castle District lies a network of caves and passages that humans have used for half a million years.
Cave Church
District XI, Budapest, Hungary
Built into the natural caves of Gellért Hill, directly above the Danube and behind the Gellért Hotel, this church is one of the most unusual places of worship in Europe.
Children's Railway
District XII, Budapest, 1121, Hungary
An eleven-kilometre railway through the Buda Hills is operated almost entirely by children between the ages of ten and fourteen.
Fisherman's Bastion
Szentháromság tér, 1014 Budapest
Here is a fortress that was never meant to defend anything.
Gellért Baths
4 Kelenhegyi út, District XI, Budapest, 1114, Hungary
The Gellért Baths are the most beautiful thermal baths in Budapest, and they know it.
Gellért Hill & Citadella
1 Citadella sétány, District XI, Budapest, 1118, Hungary
The hill is named after a man who was murdered on it.
Great Synagogue
2 Dohány utca, District VII, Budapest, 1074, Hungary
The largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world seats 3,000 people under a ceiling that draws its decorative language not from European traditions but from the Islamic architecture of North Africa and medieval Spain.
Heroes' Square
Hősök tere, District XIV, Budapest, 1146, Hungary
Hungary threw itself a thousand-year birthday party in 1896, and Heroes' Square was the centrepiece.
Hospital in the Rock
4C Lovas út, District I, Budapest, 1012, Hungary
Beneath the Castle District, carved into the limestone caves of Castle Hill, lies a secret hospital that operated during two of the most dangerous moments of the twentieth century and was classified for decades afterward.
House of Terror
60 Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
The building at 60 Andrássy Avenue has been a place of terror under two different regimes, and now it is a museum about both.
Hungarian Parliament Building
1-3 Kossuth Lajos tér, District V, Budapest, 1055, Hungary
This building took seventeen years to construct, used forty million bricks, half a million precious stones, and forty kilograms of gold — and the architect who designed it never saw it finished.
Liberty Square
Szabadság tér, District V, Budapest, 1054, Hungary
Liberty Square is one of the most politically charged public spaces in Europe, and most tourists walk right past it.
Margaret Island
District XIII, Budapest, Hungary
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Matthias Church
2 Szentháromság tér, District I, Budapest, 1014, Hungary
This church has been Catholic, then a mosque, then Catholic again.
Memento Park
Balatoni út, District XXII, Budapest, 1223, Hungary
When the Communist regime fell in 1989, Hungarian cities were left with a practical problem: what do you do with forty-two giant bronze and stone statues of Lenin, Marx, Engels, and assorted Communist heroes? Most Eastern European countries melted them down or smashed them.
New York Café
Erzsébet krt. 9-11, 1073 Budapest
In 2011, an international competition named this the most beautiful café in the world, and for once the superlative is not hyperbole.
Rudas Baths
Döbrentei tér 9, 1013 Budapest
The main Turkish bath at Rudas has been in continuous operation for over 450 years, making it one of the oldest functioning bathhouses in Europe.
Ruszwurm Confectionery
Szentháromság u. 7, 1014 Budapest
The oldest confectionery in Budapest has been serving pastry from the same tiny shop on the Castle District's main square since 1827, and the interior has barely changed.
Shoes on the Danube Bank
Id. Antall József rkp., 1054 Budapest
Sixty pairs of iron shoes sit on the stone embankment of the Danube, about 300 metres south of Parliament.
Széchenyi Chain Bridge
Széchenyi Lánchíd, 1051 Budapest
Before this bridge existed, getting from Buda to Pest in winter meant waiting for the Danube to freeze solid and walking across the ice — or not crossing at all.
Vajdahunyad Castle
Vajdahunyad sétány, 1146 Budapest
This castle is a fake, and it is one of the best fakes in Europe.
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