Óbuda & Buda Hills
High up on Buda's highest hill, János-hegy (527m), is this tower named after Emperor Franz-Joseph's beloved consort Elizabeth (or Sissi). Take the 134…
Must-see attractions in Budapest
Budapest
In the pedestrian subway/underpss below V Deák Ferenc tér, with its entrance within the main ticket office, the small, revamped Underground Railway Museum…
Budapest
An easy way to cool down on a warm afternoon (and enjoy views of Castle Hill and the Royal Palace) is to stroll along the Duna korzó, the riverside…
Hungarian Natural History Museum
Budapest
The skeleton of a finback whale greets you at this science museum, which houses a confusing raft of interactive displays over three floors. Interesting…
Budapest
Hard by the Danube in Ferencváros, the National Theatre (2002) remains controversial for its architecture. Designed by Mária Siklós, it is supposedly …
Castle District
This museum – a lot more interesting than it sounds – is housed in the Ganz Machine Works foundry, which was in use until the 1960s manufacturing the …
Budapest
The exhibits at the Postal Museum – original 19th-century post-office counters, old uniforms and coaches, some big brass horns – probably won't do much…
Castle District
Housed in an 18th-century palace with a lovely courtyard, this wonderful little museum traces the development of music in Hungary from the 18th century to…
Budapest
The underground Parliament Visitors' Centre to the north of the Parliament building has reams of information and sells tour tickets. There's also a large…
Budapest
Designed by Henrik Böhm and Ármin Hegedűs in 1906, 'Turkish Bank' House is worth a look. It has an almost totally glass-covered facade, and in the upper…
Hungarian Railway History Park
Budapest
This mostly outdoor museum contains more than 50 locomotives (a dozen of them still working) and an exhibition on the history of the railway in Hungary…
Budapest
One of the highlights during the warmer months on Margaret Island is this musical fountain, which dances and sprays and pulsates to music on the hour…
Salgótarján St Jewish Cemetery
Budapest
To the southeast of Kerepes Cemetery is this five-hectare cemetery established for the city's Jews in 1874. It was full by the turn of the 20th century.
Budapest
This cream-coloured villa designed by Emil Vidor (1867–1952) in 1902 is among the purest – and most extravagant – examples of art nouveau architecture in…
Budapest
The WWII-vintage bunker used by the regent, Miklós Horthy, can be visited on guided tour at the Gödöllő Royal Palace.
Budapest
You can visit the splendid Baroque Theatre at Gödöllő Royal Palace on weekends via a guided tour.
Budapest
The renovated headquarters of Hungarian Radio was where shots were first fired on 23 October 1956; a memorial plaque marks the spot.
Budapest
This lovely residence with phenomenal stained glass and grillwork was designed by Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor in 1902.
Berzenczey utca Apartment Block
Budapest
This beautiful building was designed by Secessionist master architect Ödön Lechner in 1895.
Budapest
St Stephen's Park is home to a Raoul Wallenberg memorial portraying a warrior doing battle with a snake (evil). Erected in 1999 and titled Kígyóölő …
Budapest
Covered in vines, the turreted Gatehouse Tower, part of the Vajdahunyad Castle, greets visitors as they cross the footbridge to the small island in the…
Budapest
A ruin is all that remains of the 13th-century convent built by Béla IV where his daughter St Margaret (1242–71) took the veil. According to the story,…
Castle District
The centre of Víziváros, Batthyány tér is the best place to take pictures of the photogenic Parliament building across the Danube. In the square's centre…
1956 Hungarian Revolution Monument
Budapest
This monolithic assembly of gleaming metal and rusting steel columns erected in 2006 to mark the 50th anniversary of the abortive uprising stands on the…
Budapest
The Timewheel, on City Park’s western edge, is the world’s largest hourglass, standing 8m high and weighing 60 tonnes. Unveiled in 2004 to commemorate…
Budapest
Boasting a fountain, abstract sculpture, benches and shade sails, ‘University Sq’ takes its name from the branch of the prestigious Loránd Eötvös Science…
Óbuda & Buda Hills
Hercules Villa, in the middle of a vast housing estate northwest of Fő tér, is the name given to some reconstructed Roman ruins due to the astonishing 3rd…
Castle District
On the northern side of Nagy Imre tér is the former Military Court of Justice, where the eponymous Nagy and others were tried and sentenced to death in…
Castle District
Used as a mosque during the Turkish occupation, this church recycled Islamic-style, ogee-arched doors and windows on the southern side when it was rebuilt…
Budapest
Inside Bálna Budapest, the whale-shaped complex beached by the Danube, the New Budapest Gallery is a spare, modern space hosting changing exhibitions that…
Budapest
Gazing down on Elizabeth Bridge from Gellért Hill is a large and quite theatrical monument to St Gellért, an Italian missionary invited to Hungary by King…
Budapest
This Romanesque Premonstratensian Church, dedicated to St Michael by the order of White Canons and reconstructed in 1931, dates back originally to the…
Museum of Applied Hungarian Folk Art
Castle District
This small museum focuses on folk art from around Hungary. There are impressive collections of fine textiles and embroidery, wood and bone carvings,…
Budapest
A Romanesque church was first built on the eastern side of Március 15 tér in the 12th century, within a Roman fortress. The present church was rebuilt in…
Budapest
Just north of the Japanese Garden, on a raised gazebo, is the revamped Musical Fountain. A replica of one in Marosvásárhely (now Târgu Mureș) in…
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter
Named after the Hungarian-born photographer and Magnum Photos cofounder Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann; 1913–54) and housed in a renovated cultural…
Castle District
To the east of the Habsburg Steps entrance to the palace is a bronze statue from 1905 of the Turul, a hawklike totemic bird that supposedly impregnated…
Castle District
This medieval entrance to the Old Town was rebuilt in 1936 to mark the 250th anniversary of the castle being taken back from the Turks. The gate is not…
Budapest
This very central church on the south side of V Deák Ferenc tér was designed by Mihály Pollack in 1799, It is one of the best examples of early…
Budapest
These ruins – no more than a tower and a wall dating back to the late 13th century – are in the centre of the island. Habsburg Archduke Joseph built a…
