Sights and landmarks in Budapest

Sights and landmarks in Budapest

1. SeeSouth Buda

   'Mushroom' building

   Gomba épület

   'Mushroom' is the name of the building on the centre of the roundabout. Built in 1942. The suburban trains arriving from Fehervari street passing through the statue St. Imre bypass tracks and the Szent Gellért Square loop line turned back. In 1963 the suburban railway lines was transformed into tram lines.

2. SeeJózsefváros

   Academy of Drama and Film

   Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem

   This is the central teaching building. Built in 1942-1944 to National Alliance Christian Youth Association headquarter. The college has been here since 1951.

3. SeeSouth Buda

   Albertfalva Roman military camp

   Albertfalvai római katonai tábor és település

   Archeological site. First camps made at reign of emperor Claudius around 30 BC. It was one of the earliest Pannonian limes (border) forts. Rebuilt under Emperor Trajan at the end of his reign. The place is in bad condition, and sometimes under water.

   Open now · open 24 hours·Free

4. SeeAngyalföld

   Alfréd Hajós sports pool

   Nemzeti Sportuszoda

   An aquatics complex. Built in 1930 according to plan Alfréd Hajós. as a free-standing, flat-roofed, reinforced concrete building. The open air swimming pool built in seven years later. The hall is include elliptical holders. The corners of the east and west facades of the main part decorated with semicirculared avant-corps. The most part of the facede covered with Clinker bricks and decorated with artificial stone's window sill. North from the buildings are pools with diving tower and grandstand for spectators. Under the grandstand can be found the changing rooms. - Both sides of the main facades located flagpoles with carved sedge leaf. There is an archway front of the west facade. Stairs lead to the grandstands from both end of the foyer. Under the gallery of the north side of the building is a small indoor pool. The European LC Championships 1958, 2006 and 2010 took place here.

   See in do chapter

5. SeeVíziváros

   Andrássy Palace

   Andrássy-palota

   Built in 1878–1880 for Count Gyula Andrássy prime minister. Designer: Stephen Linzbauer. Franz Liszt held a charity concert with the participation of Franz Joseph in 1879 (in the time of construction!). During the Second World War used as a hospital. Since 1966 was a secret weapons factory. Frank Zappa (1991) and Jethro Tull (1994) held a music rehearsal.

6. SeeAngyalföld

   Angyalföld Lutheran church

   Angyalföldi evangélikus templom

   Lutheran Church of the Budapest-Angyalföldi Congregation stay on the Angyalfold Kassák street since 1938. The Second World War brought massive destruction. After the war finished church bell is now the largest Protestant bell on the Pest side. The gray-colored church shows classicist elements. The facade facing toward Kassák street is square-shaped, with little decoration, the entrance is in the middle of it, a small circular window can be seen from both sides of the gate. Above the entrance is a semi-circular window. The facade crowned by a pediment in the middle of it is a circular window and with stone garland decoration.

   Worship: Sun 10:00

7. SeeAngyalföld

   Angyalföldi Local History Collection

   Angyalföldi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény

   The nearly 20,000-piece collection of objects contents mainly furniture, everyday use items, pieces of clothing, home textiles, tools, memorabilia. Archival Material (7,000 items) consists of certificates, passports, official documents, letters, working papers. Data Archives (600 archival units) are historical descriptions, manuscript entries, paper, studies. There are about 13,000 pieces tiny print. Mainly printed invitations, ads, flyers, handouts are there from various institutions of the district. Postcard collection consists of about 4,000 pieces, but among these very few has district relevance. The Photo Gallery contains nearly 22,000 pieces in these B & W and color prints, photocopies, slides, negatives and reproductions from other Photo Archives. Significant the history of technology collection, especially the old radios. The numismatic collection includes about 1,400 pieces of badges, medals. In the 2,300-volume library collected books related to the district, historiography, Budapest's history manuals, bibliographies. Here collecting 14 kinds of newspaper, magazine (district newspapers, utility boards, as well as local history, museology, protected city-related magazines).

   Tue-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat 15:00-19:00, on the 13th day of each month: 10:00-22:00

8. SeeAngyalföld

   Angyalföldi St. Ladislaus Parish Church

   Angyalföldi Szent László-plébániatemplom

   Built in Gothic-style. A Latin cross plan, three-nave church with a semicircular apse. It has a main tower with two smaller ones and also a Hussar tower. The bronze Stations of the Cross images made by a local artist. The pulpit was made of Rușchița marble (Caraș-Severin County, Romania). The three-manual organ made in 1942, by the Rákosfalva's (a district of Budapest/East_Pest) Rieger company. The jewel of interior is three triptych, which were made between 1939-1942, C. Paul Molnar works. The main altar paintings depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ladislaus.

   Masses Mon-Wed 07:30, Wed-Sat 18:00, Sun 07:30, 09:00, 10:30 and 18:00

9. SeeNorth Buda

   Apathy Rock

   Apáthy-szikla

   This is a dolomite rock. The boundaries of the Nagybányai road, Madár street, Páfrányliget street and Görgényi road. Since 1977 nature reserve, almost 6 ha.

   Open now · open 24 hours·Free

10. SeeAquincum

    Aquincum Civil Town Amphitheatre

    Aquincumi polgárvárosi amfiteátrum

    The amphitheater was located outside the city walls, from the north of it. This is built around 150 CE, and in the third century it was renovated several times. Nearly circular floor plan, axis based sizes: 86.5 m×75.5 m. It can be classified as earth amphitheater. The arena itself was surrounded by 3 m high stage wall.

    Free to visit (from outside)

11. SeeÓbuda

    Aquincum Military Amphitheatre

    Aquincumi katonai amfiteátrum

    The military amphitheater located south of former Roman military camp. Around 145 the training ground, rebuilt in stone amphitheater during the reign of emperor Antoninus Pius. The construction work was performed by the Legio II Adiutrix technical corps. The longitudinal axis 131.8 m, cross axis 108.4 m of the outer walls of the stand. The arena size of 89.6 m×66.1 m. Molded walls of its cabinets were built by fishbone vaults. The walls were huge stone pillar supported.

12. SeeAquincum

    Aquincum Museum and Archaeological Park

    Aquincumi Múzeum és Régészeti Park

    The remains of Aquincum the former capitol of Pannonia Inferior, built by the Romans. Exhibitions, archaeological park and Painter's House. Guiding available only if booked in advance (English, German, French, Hungarian).

    Exhibitions: Apr–Oct: Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, Nov–Mar: Tue–Sun 10:00–16:00. Archaeological Park: Apr–Oct: Tue–Sun 09:00–18:00, Nov–Mar: Tue–Sun only when the weather is dry and surfaces are not slippery·Apr–Oct: adult: HUF 1600; senior, student: HUF 800. Nov–Mar: adult: HUF 1000; senior, student: HUF 500

13. SeeJózsefváros

    Art Colony in Budapest

    Százados úti művésztelep

    This is Budapest's first artist colony, Europe's oldest continuous art colony. Fifteen ground-level house built with twenty art galleries at the edge of time in Budapest. Cemetery, railway and military barracks were separated from the city.

14. SeeFerencváros

    Attila József's birthplace

    József Attila szülőháza

    Attila József (Hungarian: [ˈɒtːilɒ ˈjoːʒɛf]; 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally. A couple of his poems in English. The building now is a listed place. An U-shaped, one-story building

    Only from outside

15. SeeHegyvidék

    Bajor Gizi Actors’ Museum

    Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum

    The museum covers decisive participants and events of almost 200 years of Hungarian theatre, from the strolling players of the 1820s up to the present moment. Placed in a neo-baroque, early 20th century villa and its compelling garden and park.

    Wed-Sun 14:00-18:00

16. SeeNorth Buda

    Balogh Adam rock

    Balogh Ádám szikla

    approx. 1 hectare nature reserve. Triassic dolomite protrusion with thermal water solution. Iron and manganese infiltration. In cavities calcite, barite and iron oxide hydroxide minerals.

    Open now · open 24 hours·Free

17. SeeJózsefváros

    Batthyany Mausoleum

    Batthyány-mauzóleum

    Mausoleum of Batthyány family. Built in eclectic style by Schikedanz Albert, between 1872-1873.

18. SeeBelváros

    Batthyány candle

    Batthyány-örökmécses

    A historical monument. At this point on 6 October 1849, Count Lajos Batthyány was executed. He was the first prime minister of Hungary (between 1807 and 1849).

19. SeeTerézváros

    Bencur House

    Bencur Ház

    Built in the 1880s. This is a three-storey mansion. Here is now on the 2nd and 3rd floor the Post Museum.

20. SeeVíziváros

    Benedek Virág House

    Virág Benedek Ház

    Exhibition place. One-storey Classicist residential house, built in 1811 according to plans of József Eckermann.

    Wed–Fri 12:00–18:00, Sat Sun 10:00–18:00

21. SeeFerencváros

    Bible Museum

    Ráday Gyűjtemény - Biblia Múzeum

    Three thousand years ago the world of the Bible. Since 2013 it has been closed for renovation.

    Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00

22. SeeBudavár

    Big Rondella

    Nagy rondella

    It's a circular bastion on the southern slope of the Castle Hill. It was restored in the 1950s by excavating, conserving and partially supplementing its medieval walls. The Rondella was the southernmost tip of the outer belt of the medieval castle and one of the largest fortifications, its internal diameter is larger than 33 m.

    Free to visit

23. SeeHegyvidék

    Black pine

    Feketefenyő, Lat.:Pinus nigra,

    Protected natural monument. The height of it is over 20 m and its age is estimated to be at least 70 years.

24. SeeJózsefváros

    Botanic Garden

    Füvészkert, Budapesti Botanikuskert Természetvédelmi terület

    Botanic Garden of the Eötvös Loránd University. Main attractions: the country's first Victoria's house with a large pool tropical include the extraordinarily beautiful giant Amazon and Paraguay lilies. Also important sights are the fern pine trees which planted in the mid-19th century, and the orchids, ferns and cactus collections. A couple monuments also visible here.

    Apr 1 to Oct 31: daily 09:00-17:00·Ft850 (2014)

25. SeeAngyalföld

    Bringo Castle

    Bringóhintó, Bringóvár

    Built in 1991. A storage for rentable 'bringo' chariots, bicycles, electric toys, roller skates. Also there is a panorama snack bar, ice cream parlor, gift shop and information unit. Electric car and electric scooter renting also possible at Centennial Memorial or Thermal Hotel.

    08:00-sunset·Rentals See in above the special transport chapter

26. SeeVíziváros

    Buda Castle Tunnel

    Budai Váralagút

    350 m meter long tunnel connecting Clark Ádám tér and Krisztinaváros. It was built between 1853–1857. The entrance was built in late Classicist style.

27. SeeBelváros

    Budapest Business School (BGF), College Commerce, Catering Tourism

    CCCT, Budapest Gazdasági Főiskola (BGF) Kereskedelmi, Vendéglátóipari és Idegenforgalmi Kar

    Two statues located in front of the building. A Hermes statue with approx. 200 cm rectangular stone pedestal. The Hermes statue stay on a sphere top of an Ionic pillar. Hermes left hand holds a purse, on Legs are little wings.(Dealers patron). The other statue is a bronze, 2-m-high winged female figure with a torch.

28. SeeÓbuda

    Budapest Gallery

    Medieval Market, Budapest Galéria, Középkori piactér

    The market emerged in the XII–XIII. century, the Danubian harbor and anchorage with Esztergom highway connecting streets. The line of houses on the south side led to the Clarissans convent. Lajos utca 158 was one of the buildings of the former marketplace, at the beginning of the 18th century it was a beer house. In the 1790s, it was converted into an apartment house. In 19th century, it was extended with additional extensions. At this time, the restoration of the building preserved the most important medieval details. The house is now a contemporary art gallery.

    Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00·Adult: HUF 800; senior, student: HUF 400

29. SeeTerézváros

    Budapest Stock Exchange

    Budapesti Értéktőzsde (BÉT)

    Re-opened in 1990. The key institution of Hungarian financial markets and the official trading venue for publicly offered securities.

    Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00

30. SeeNorth Buda

    Béla Bartók Memorial House

    Bartók Béla Emlékház

    The final home of one of the greatest Hungarian composers. Located at a very beautiful place and has a big garden. - Bartók's sheet music, books, CDs, DVDs, postcards are available in the Museum Music Shop. Evening concerts: at 18:00. extraphone=+36 1 394-2100

    Tue-Sat 10:00-17:00·Adult €4, student €2

31. SeeFerencváros

    CET

    It is also called as BÁLNA (Whale) and the venue of exhibitions, cultural and entertainment events. It is a beautiful glass building near the Martket Hall. It was designed by Kas Oosterhuis.

    Closed · opens 9:30 am tomorrow

32. SeeBudavár

    Carmelite Monastery, Castle Theatre

    Karmelita kolostor, Várszínház

    The Baroque monastery was built in 1736 by the Carmelite order on the former site of a mosque that was destroyed in 1686 during the siege that liberated Buda from Ottoman occupation. The order received the real estate in 1693 and completed the new monastery and church by 1736, but it was consecrated only in 1763. Two decades later, Emperor Joseph II disbanded the order and converted the property into a theatre by imperial order in 1786, "for the delectation of high-ranking court officials". Some notable performances included Beethoven and the premiere of Bánk Bán. It is the current seat of the Prime Minister of Hungary.

    Only from outside

33. SeeBudavár

    Castle Chapel

    Várkápolna, Alamizsnás Szent János-kápolna

    The chapel was built by Sigismund of Luxembourg in the 15th century as the lower chapel of the former castle church. The Gothic chapel, which survived the destruction of the siege of 1686, was buried under a Baroque terrace for centuries. After its reconstruction in 1963, it became part of the exhibition of the Castle Museum.

    Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00

34. SeeVíziváros

    Castle Garden Bazaar

    Várkert Bazár

    The building complex was built according to the plans of Miklós Ybl between 1875 and 1883 in the Neo-Renaissance style, as the closing of the Castle Garden from the Danube. It was built for a commercial function, with its arcades full of shops. In 1884, Alajos Strobl was the first sculptor to have his own studio in the arcade of the bazaar. He was followed by about eighty of his fellow artists over the next hundred year.

35. SeeVíziváros

    Castle Garden Kiosk – Ybl Buda Creative House

    Várkert-kioszk - Ybl Budai Kreatív Ház

    Exhibition space. The building was designed by Miklós Ybl. The construction was completed in 1882. It was built as the engine room of the Royal Palace’s water supply system. The Eclectic building is a decorative blend of Renaissance and Baroque style features. The Schröffl brothers (György and Ármin) were entrusted with the fine sculptural works, the grotesque murals made with the sgraffito technique were the works of Róbert Scholtz. The northern part of the building included the cafe (today's reception), the southern part included the mechanical equipment of the waterworks (large hall, arched hall), while the part above the engine room housed the engineer's apartment (gallery). Between the two parts rises the tower structure that hid the chimney of the steam boilers. Ybl thus masterfully hid the structure.

    Mon–Fri 08:00–19:00, Sat Sun 09:30–19:00·Free entrance

36. SeeBudavár

    Castle Museum

    Vármúzeum

    It's the Medieval Department of the Budapest History Museum. Permanent exhibitions, over four floors: ancient people, antique cultures and temporary exhibitions. The restored part of the medieval castle, including the Royal Chapel and the rib-vaulted Gothic Hall, belongs to the exhibition. The highlights of the exhibition are the Gothic statues of Buda Castle and a 14th-century silk tapestry decorated with the Angevin coats of arms. Small gardens were recreated in the medieval zwingers around the oldest parts of the building.

    Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00·Adult: HUF 2400; senior, student: HUF 1200

37. SeeÓbuda

    Cella Trichora

    Ruins of an early Christian chapel, Ókeresztény kápolna romjai

    North side of the Raktár street once been one late-Roman Christian cemetery. There was the outskirts of the ancient Christian chapel. A typical cloverleaf-shaped building raised in around 360 CE, in memory of the martyrs and saints.

    Free to visit

38. SeeSouth Buda

    Cellar system of Budafok

    Budafoki pince rendszer

    Much of the food industry exploits. The experts called "360 cellar." It is home to the world's largest barrels of traditional sizes in use.

39. SeeAngyalföld

    Centennial Memorial

    Centenáriumi emlékmű

    Made in 1972 by István Kiss. Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the city's unification

40. SeeJózsefváros

    Centre for Foreign Languages

    Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Idegennyelvi Továbbképző Központ

    the oldest and "authentic" language examination place in Hungary

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