Vaci utca

Váci utca, Bécsi utca mahallé, Nagy utca mahallé

This is one of the main pedestrian thoroughfares and perhaps the most famous street of central Budapest. It was the first shopping street in Budapest. Back in 1690 it was called Lipot Street and it stratched into the Vaci Gate, the North exit of the city. It features restaurants and shops catering primarily to the tourist market. No. 4 Ferenc Bene House: built in 1840 was designed by József Hild is a three-storey neoclassical house with seven windows. No. 9 Seven elector-house, former Nako House, built (this edition) in 1840, former a hotel was here (German) 'Zu den sieben Kurfürsten-Gastgeber' (lit. Seven Elector-hotel). Three-storey house with 15 windows and each floor with Doric colonnade. No.10 Three-storey, classicist house with ten windows. The arched doorways with 'Czech cap'. There is a semicircular staircase with wood balustrade.

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Address

V. Vaci utca (North End at Vörösmarty tér 2., the South is Fővám tér 5)

Getting there

Vörösmarty tér