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Széchenyi Mausoleum
The Széchenyi Mausoleum, the final resting place of István and other family members and a great place of pilgrimage for Hungarians, is in the village cemetery across the road from St Stephen's Church.
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Jug Mausoleum
The entrance to the Jug Mausoleum, a 4th-century Roman tomb whose name comes from a painting of a large drinking vessel with vines found here is on the southern side of the baroque Ecclesiastical Archives (Egyházi levéltár) in Dóm tér.
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Gül Baba’s Tomb
This reconstructed tomb contains the remains of one Gül Baba, an Ottoman Dervish who took part in the capture of Buda in 1541 and is known in Hungary as the ‘Father of Roses’. The tomb is a pilgrimage place for Muslims, especially from Turkey, and you must remove your shoes before entering. To reach the tomb from Török utca, which runs parallel to Frankel Leó út, walk west along steep, cobbled Gül Baba utca to the set of steps just past house No 16. You can also get here from Mecset utca, which runs north from Margit utca.
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Kerepesi Cemetery
About 500m southeast of Keleti station is the entrance to Budapest’s equivalent of Highgate or Père Lachaise cemeteries. Established in 1847, some of the 3000 gravestones and mausoleums in this 56-hectare necropolis, which is also called the National Graveyard (Nemzeti Sírkert), are worthy of a pharaoh – especially those of statesmen and national heroes such as Lajos Kossuth, Ferenc Deák and Lajos Batthyány. Other tombs are quite moving (eg those of the actress Lujza Blaha and the poet Endre Ady). Southeast of the main entrance, plot 21 contains the graves of many who died in the 1956 Uprising. Sitting uncomfortably close by is the huge mausoleum for party honchos,…
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