Budapest
Straddling the Danube River, with the Buda Hills to the west and the Great Plain to the east, Budapest is a gem of a city.
Straddling the Danube River, with the Buda Hills to the west and the Great Plain to the east, Budapest is a gem of a city.
The level plains and grasslands give way to a chain of wooded hills as you head north and east.
The Danube, Hungary's dustless highway and the second-largest river in Europe, cuts a path through the hills to the north of Budapest.
High season in Lake Balaton is July and August; crowds descend and prices skyrocket.
The mysterious Nagyalföld (Great Plain) is an area that has been central to Hungarian myth and legend for centuries.
Blessed with a mild climate, an illustrious past and a number of fine museums and monuments, Pécs is one of the most pleasant and interesting cities to visit in Hungary.
Blessed with beautifully preserved baroque architecture, Eger is a jewellery box of a town with loads to see and do.
It’s hard to name the single thing that makes Szeged such an appealing city.
Hungary’s ‘most faithful city’ (a reference to the 1921 referendum when Sopron opted to stay part of Hungary rather than be absorbed into Austria) has been around for a while.
Debrecen is Hungary's second-largest city, and its name has been synonymous with wealth and conservatism since the 16th century.
This large city with the funny name (pronounced jyeur) is a surprisingly splendid place.
Szentendre ('St Andrew') is the southern gateway to the Danube Bend but has none of the imperial history or drama of Visegrád or Esztergom.
Szombathely means ‘Saturday market’ – an appropriate name for this bustling city that has been a trade settlement since 43AD when Romans built Savaria on this site along the Amber Route.
Lying halfway between the Danube and the Tisza Rivers in the heart of the Southern Plain, Kecskemét is a city ringed with vineyards and orchards that don’t seem to stop at the limits of this ‘garden city’.
Keszthely, a city of grand town houses perched at the very western end of Lake Balaton, is hands-down one of the loveliest spots to stay, far removed from the tourist hot spots on the lake.
Szolnok is not a pretty city; much of its skyline consists of ugly concrete blocks built for practical, rather than aesthetic, purposes.
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