Andrássy Avenue & M1 Metro
Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
Andrássy Avenue is Budapest's grandest boulevard, stretching 2.
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.
Central Market Hall
1 Vámház körút, District IX, Budapest, 1093, Hungary
Budapest's largest and oldest indoor market opened on February 15, 1897, and walking through its neo-Gothic iron and glass halls feels like stepping into a nineteenth-century food cathedral.
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.
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.
Hungarian State Opera House
22 Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1061, Hungary
Emperor Franz Joseph I agreed to co-finance an opera house for Budapest on one condition: it must not be larger than the Vienna State Opera.
Liberty Bridge
Szabadság híd, District XI, Budapest, 1114, Hungary
The shortest bridge in central Budapest is also arguably the most beautiful.
Matthias Church
2 Szentháromság tér, District I, Budapest, 1014, Hungary
This church has been Catholic, then a mosque, then Catholic again.
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.
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.
St. Stephen's Basilica
Szent István tér 1, 1051 Budapest
This basilica took fifty-four years to build, collapsed once during construction, and houses the mummified right hand of a thousand-year-old king.
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.
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Állatkerti krt. 9-11, 1146 Budapest
Budapest sits on more than 120 natural hot springs, making it the only capital city in the world that is also a spa city.
Szimpla Kert
Kazinczy u. 14, 1075 Budapest
In the early 2000s, Budapest's seventh district was a wreck.
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