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Ornamental Palace
The masterful Art Nouveau–style Ornamental Palace, which dates from 1902, has multicoloured majolica tiles decorating its waving walls. The palace contains the Kecskemét Gallery . Its collection of 20th-century Hungarian art is large and important, but visit mainly to view the aptl
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New Municipal Cemetery
This huge city cemetery , easily reached by tram from Blaha Lujza tér, is where Imre Nagy, prime minister during the 1956 Uprising, and 2000 others were buried in unmarked graves (plots 300–301) after executions in the late 1940s and 1950s. Today, the area has been turned into a mo
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Great Church
The late-baroque Great Church, dedicated in 1806, dominates Kossuth tér, the southeasternmost of the main squares. Large tablets on the front honour (from left to right) a mounted regiment of Hussars that served in WWI; citizens who died in the 1848–49 War of Independence; and the
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Magdalene Tower
The big steeple on the south side of Kapisztrán tér, opposite the Museum of Military History and visible for kilometres to the west of Castle Hill, is the reconstructed spire of an 18th-century church. The church, once reserved for Hungarian speakers in this district (German speake
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Óbuda Museum
Anchor tenant of the Zichy Mansion, where you’ll also find the Vasarely Museum, but with its own entrance on Fő tér, this museum contains a motley assortment of exhibits related to Óbuda’s past through three distinct periods: medieval, industrial and present-day. Highlights include
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Former Franciscan church
The church was originally built in the Gothic style in the late 14th century for Franciscan monks, but many alterations were made in subsequent centuries, including the addition of the steeple in 1898. The Gothic rose window above the porch remains, though, as do some faded 15th-ce
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Gáspár Nyúzó House
The area east of Szőlősi út is a veritable patchwork of traditional houses, with thatched roofs and orderly little flower and vegetable gardens - a nice respite from the hubbub of the beach. One of them, the Gáspár Nyúzó House, is a former potters residence and contains antique pot
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Zwack Unicum Heritage Visitors Centre
Unicum, the thick medicinal-tasting aperitif made from 40 herbs and spices, is one of Hungarys favourite drinks and bitter as a loser’s tears. To delve into its history head to this small museum, which starts with a rather schmaltzy video, has an enormous collection of miniatures f
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Potters Houses
The area south of the main square (Piac tér) is a patchwork of traditional thatched cottages. One of them houses the Gáspár Nyúzó House , a former potter’s residence with antique potting wheels, drying racks, furniture and plates in pale primary colours and patterns of stars, and
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Church of St James
This Gothic creation, built in 1407, contains very faded 15th-century frescoes on the east wall of a giant St Christopher carrying the Christ Child, Mary Misericordia sheltering supplicants under a massive cloak, and the three magi bearing their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrr
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Art Nouveau Buildings
Two of the most extravagant Art Nouveau/Secessionist buildings in Budapest are within easy walking distance of City Park. To the southeast is Sándor Baumgarten’s National Institute for the Blind , dating from 1904, and to the south is the Institute of Geology , designed by Ödön Lec
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Shoes on the Danube
Along the banks of the river between Széchenyi István tér and Parliament is a monument to Hungarian Jews shot and thrown into the Danube by members of the fascist Arrow Cross Party in 1944. Entitled Shoes on the Danube (Cipők a Dunaparton) by sculptor Gyula Pauer and film director
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Lehel Church
If you look north up XIII Váci út from Nyugati tér you’ll see the twin spires of this 1933 copy of a celebrated 13th-century Romanesque church (now in ruins) at Zsámbék, 33km west of Budapest. Just beyond it is Lehel Market , a great traditional market housed in a hideous boatlike
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Telephony Museum
This museum, set within a lovely backstreet garden, documents the history of the telephone in Hungary since 1881, when the world’s first switchboard – a Rotary 7A1, still working and the centrepiece of the exhibition – was set up in Budapest. Other exhibits pay tribute to Tivadar P
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Visszhang
Youll find Visszhang-hegy at the end of Pisky sétány. At one time, up to 15 syllables of anything shouted in the direction of the Abbey Church would bounce back but, alas, because of building in the area (and perhaps climatic changes) youll be lucky to get three nowadays. From Viss
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Nyugati Train Station
The large iron-and-glass structure on Nyugati tér is the ‘Western’ train station, built in 1877 by the Paris-based Eiffel Company. In the early 1970s a train crashed through the enormous glass screen on the main facade when its brakes failed; it came to rest at the tram line. The o
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Synagogue
Across the Rába River, the richly decorated octagonal cupola, galleries and tabernacle of the city’s erstwhile synagogue, built in 1870, poke above the treeline. The former Jewish house of worship now plays host to János Vasilescus private collection of contemporary Hungarian art,
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Hungarian Open
Just 5km northwest of Szentendre is Hungarys most ambitious skanzen (open-air folk museum displaying village architecture), with farmhouses, churches, bell towers, mills and so on set up in eight regional divisions. Craftspeople and artisans do their thing on random days (generally
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Churches
There are a couple of churches in the town centre worth a quick look. The Romanian Orthodox St Nicholas Cathedral , built in the Zopf style in 1824 but only consecrated 170 years later, has a beautiful iconostasis containing almost three dozen painted images. The baroque Inner Cit
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Aquincum Museum
The purpose-built Aquincum Museum, on the western edge of what remains of this Roman settlement, puts the ruins in perspective, with a vast collection of coins and wall paintings. Look out for the replica of a 3rd-century portable organ called a hydra and the mock-up of a Roman bat
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