Budapest Sights

  1. Budapest Puppet Theatre

    The puppet theatre, which usually doesn't require fluency in Hungarian, presents shows designed for children on weekdays (usually at or and ) and folk programmes for adults occasionally in the evening.

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  2. Funfair Park

    This luna park on 2½ hectares dates back to the mid-19th century. There are a couple of dozen thrilling rides, including the heart-stopping Ikarus Space Needle, the looping Star roller coaster (alongside a vintage wooden one from 1926) and the Hip-Hop freefall tower, as well as go-karts, dodgem cars, a carousel built in 1906 and the new T-Rex dinosaur attraction.

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  3. Gellért Baths

    The city's most famous thermal spa is the Gellért Baths below Gellért Hill. Soaking in this Art Nouveau palace has been likened to taking a bath in a cathedral. The pools here maintain a constant temperature of 44°C (111°F).

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  4. Hungarian State Opera House

    The neo-Renaissance Hungarian State Opera House, among the city's most beautiful buildings, was designed by Miklós Ybl in 1884. If you cannot attend a concert or an opera, join one of the guided tours, which usually includes a brief musical performance. Tickets are available from the souvenir shop on the eastern side of the building facing Hajós utca.

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  5. Király Baths

    In between Margaret Island and the Castle District, along the Danube on the Buda bank, are the Király baths on Fő utca. The four pools here, with water temperatures of between 26°C and 40°C (79°F to 104°F) are genuine Turkish baths erected in 1570 and featuring a wonderful skylit central dome.

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  7. Municipal Great Circus

    Performances at Budapest's circus, Europe's only permanent big top, are at from Wednesday to Sunday, with additional shows at on Saturday and Sunday, and at on Saturday.

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  8. National Theatre

    The National Theatre by the Danube in Ferencváros opened in 2002 to much controversy. The design, by architect Mária Siklós, is supposedly 'Eclectic' to mirror other great Budapest buildings of that style (Gellért Hotel, Gresham Palace, Parliament). But in reality it is a pick-and-mix jumble sale of classical and folk motifs, porticoes, balconies and columns on the outside that just does not work and certainly will date fast. But then they said that about the Parliament building in 1902.

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  9. Tropicarium-Oceanarium

    This vast aquarium complex at the Campona shopping centre in south Buda measures 3000 sq metres and is apparently the largest in Central Europe. Don't expect just to see snazzy neon-coloured tropical examples, however; this place prides itself on its local specimens too.

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