Sights Budapest attractionsThe places you should see in Budapest.
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Gellert Hill |
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 Gellert Hill is part of Budapest’s Ist and XIth Districts, named afterthe saint thrown to his death from the hill. The famous Hotel Gellertand the Gellet Baths can be found in Gellért Square at the foot of the hill, next to Liberty Bridge. |
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Budapest Great Synagogue |
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 The Dohány Street Synagogue or Great Synagogue in Budapest is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. It seats 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism. |
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Városliget or City Park |
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 Városliget or City Park is a public park (302 acres or 1.2 km2 a rectangle 0.9 mile by 0.6 mile, or 1.4 km × 900 m) in Budapest close to the city centre, behind Heroe's square.
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Váci Street and Vörösmarty Square |
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Váci utca (Váci street) is one of the main pedestrian thoroughfares and perhaps the most famous street of central Budapest. It features a large number of resturants and fashion outlets catering primarily to the tourist market
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St. Stephen Basilica |
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 The largest Catholic church in Budapest, where the most important relic of the Hungarian Catholicism, the Holy Right of King St. Steven is kept.The panorama terrace offers a great view of the city. |
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Heroes' Square |
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 The momumental square at the end of Andrássy Avenue sums up the history of Hungary. The millenium memorial commemorates the 1000th anniversary of the arrival of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin. Heroes' Square is the biggest square in Budapest. |
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Fishermen's Bastion |
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 The Fishermen's Bastion is one of the most popular spots of the Castle District with visitors, as it offers a grand panorama of almost the entire city. |
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Castle District |
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 The Castle District in Buda is the ancient kernel of the capital's right-bank settlement. The Royal Palace houses different museums and exhibitions. The castle District is one of the most visited tourist attraction in Budapest.
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The Parliament |
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 The monumental building of the Parliament is one of the biggest attractions of Budapest. Inside, you can see crown jewels, frescoes, paintaings and statues of the historical figures of Hungary |
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Museum of Applied Arts |
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The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest was the third museum to be built in Europe after fellow institutions in London (1857) and Vienna (1864). The Art-nouveau palace of the museum itself worths a visit. The collection embraces eastern carpets, treasury of the Esterházy family, Italian majolica, art-nouveau glass works, Zsolnay ceramics, French furniture, etc. |
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Gallery of Art |
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The largest exhibition hall in a great classical building. Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists. |
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Museum of Fine Arts |
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Hungary’s premier gallery of non-Hungarian works of art from early times right up to the present day.
Permanent exhibitions:
Antique collection:
Mainly Greek and Roman works of Art : marble sculptures, more than toushand works of plastic art, bronze works, vases with red and black figures painted by famous painters.
Egyptian collection:
Sculptures from all Egyptian Ages, including some outstanding works, painted mummy coffins, plastics.
Antique picture gallery:
This is the most significant collection of the Museum. The gallery introduces the development of Europian painting from 1300 to 1800. In this respect the Museum is one of the best ordered collections in Europe.
Antique sculpture collection:
Works of Italian sculptue from the 4th century to the 18th century and of French, English, German and Holland sculpture from the 13th century to the 18th century. A famous masterpiece is the horseman sculpture made by Leonardo da Vinci.
Graphical collection:
The collection - which contains 10000 drawings and 100000 engravings - is not open to the public all the time because the works of art are highly sensitive to light
Modern collection:
Contains paintings and sculptures from the 19th and the 20th century. |
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Hungarian National Galery |
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The museum shows the development of hungarian art selected by the main styleages.
Permanent exibitions:
Medieval and Renaissanse stone exhibition (11th - 16th century)
Gothic wood sculptures and pictures (14th - 15th century)
Late Gothic oltars (15th - 16th century)
Renaissance and Baroque Art (1550-1800)
Paintings, sculptures, medals from the 19th century
Paintings, sculptures, medals from the 20th century
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Hungarian National Museum |
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The Hungarian National Museum is said to have been founded in 1802 when Count Ferenc Széchényi set up the National Széchényi Library. In 1846 it moved into the fine neo-Classical building designed by Mihály Pollack where it has been ever since. Permanent exhibitions:History of Hungary from the foundation of the state to 1990 Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary History, Scholar Hungarians who made the 20th century, History of the people of the Hungarian lands from 400.000 BC to 804 AD, The coronation mantle, Medieval and Early Modern Lapidary, Roman Lapidary |
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Budapest, Hungary
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Folklore
Folk dance: The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble the Danube Folk Ensemble and Rajkó Folk Ensemble are three of the best Hungarian folk ensembles with the longest tradition (the first one was formed in 1951, and the second one in 1957), which have performances all around the country and abroad. Read more ...
Organ concerts
The program of the concert was adapted for the organ of this church by Gábor Lehotka, professor of the Academy of Music in Budapest. Anasztázia Bednarik, Miklós Teleki and László Attila Almásy regularly give concerts in Hungary, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Read more ...
Symphony concerts
Hungarian classical music has long been an "experiment, made from Hungarian antedecents and on Hungarian soil, to create a conscious musical culture [using the] musical world of the folk song". Although the Hungarian upper class has long had cultural and political connections with the rest of Europe, leading to an influx of European musical ideas, the rural peasants maintained their own traditions such that by the end of the 19th century Hungarian composers could draw on rural peasant music to (re)create a Hungarian classical style. Read more ...
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