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Andrássy Út
Andrássy út, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, starts a short distance north of Deák Ferenc tér and stretches for 2.5km to the northeast, ending at Hősök tere and Városliget, Pest's sprawling 'City Park'. Andrássy út is such a pretty boulevard and there's so much to enjoy en route that the best way to see it is on foot, though the M1 metro runs beneath Andrássy út from Deák Ferenc tér as far as the City Park if you tire out.
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Budapest Eye
This attraction exaggerates just a titch when it claims, 'The Budapest Eye is to Budapest what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris and the London Eye is to London.' In reality, it's a hot-air balloon tethered to ropes, on a site between Nyugati train station and the West End City Center mall, which ascends to 150m for some hair-raising views over Budapest. But the kids will love it.
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Fő Utca
Fő utca is the 'Main Street' running through Víziváros and dates from Roman times.
At the former Capuchin church (I Fő utca 30-32), used as a mosque during the Turkish occupation, you can see the remains of two Islamic-style ogee-arched doors and windows on the southern side.
The seal of King Matthias Corvinus - a raven and a ring - and the little square with the delightful Louis Fountain ( Lajos kútja ; 1904) is called Corvin tér.
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Frankel Leó Út
At Bem József tér, Fő utca turns into Frankel Leó út, a tree-lined street of antique shops and boutiques.
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Gellért Hill & The Tabán
Gellért Hill, a rocky hill southeast of the Castle District, is crowned with a fortress and the Independence Monument. From Gellért Hill, you can't beat the views of the Royal Palace or the Danube and its fine bridges, and Jubilee Park on the south side is an ideal spot for a picnic. The Tabán, the leafy area between Gellért and Castle Hills, stretching northwest as far as Déli train station, is associated with the Serbs, who settled here after fleeing from the Turks in the early 18th century.
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Northern Inner Town
Northern Inner Town, more accurately called Lipótváros (Leopold Town), is full of offices, government ministries, 19th-century apartment blocks and grand squares. Its confines are, in effect, Szent István körút to the north, V József Attila utca to the south, the Danube to the west and, to the east, V Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út, the arrow-straight boulevard that stretches from central Deák Ferenc tér and Nyugati tér, where Nyugati train station ( Nyugati pályaudvar ) is located.
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Óbuda
Ó means 'ancient' in Hungarian; as its name suggests, Óbuda is the oldest part of Buda. The Romans established Aquincum, a key military garrison and civilian town north of here at the end of the 1st century AD, and it became the seat of the Roman province of Pannonia Inferior in AD 106. When the Magyars arrived, they named it Buda, which became Óbuda when the Royal Palace was built on Castle Hill and turned into the real centre.
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Víziváros
Watertown is the narrow area between the Danube and Castle Hill that widens as it approaches Óbuda to the north and Rózsadomb (Rose Hill) to the northwest, spreading as far west as Moszkva tér, one of Buda's main transport hubs. Under the Turks many of the district's churches were used as mosques, and baths were built, one of which is still functioning. Víziváros begins at Clark Ádám tér, leading east from the square.
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