Sightseeing

Private guide tours

If you are not short of money, the best way to see most of the Budapest and to learn about its history, culture and life is to take private guide tour. Private guide tours are organized for small groups of tourist (usually 1 to 6 persons) and are accompanied by licensed tourist guide and professional driver. They will show you everithing what is important in Budapest and the tour can be tailord to your personal interests. The prices for such a tours are between 120 and 250 euro (150 and 300 USD) per tour (for all persons together), depending on number of persons and length of the tour. You will be picked up at your hotel on time of your choice. More information about private tours: Private city tours

Sightseeing by bus

If you don't have enough time, or you are not ready to walk a lot, than the bus sightseeing tour could be solution for you. The bus tours are not expensive, and tourist information are available on many languages. A lot of offers are starting on Deak Ferenc square or Andrassy street or Chain bridge. Tours are usually 2-3 hours long and you will see most of the Budapest tourist attractions. Prices are somwhere between 25 and 35 euro/person (30 to 45 USD / person), depending of the length of the tour. You can find more information about city tours here: Budapest City Tours

Sightseeing by boat

Boat in the front of Parliament In 1987, Budapest was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the cultural and architectural significance of the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter.

The Danube flows through Budapest from north to south; within the city boundaries its widest part (640m) is in the north of the city . The river is at its narrowest (283m) below Gellért Hill; here it is about 9m deep.

Many Budapest attractions and monuments are located at or near the Danube banks. On the north there is a Margaret Island. It is 2,5 Km long and up to 500 m wide. On both of its ends are bridges: Arpad bridge and the Margaret bridge. In the Middle Ages cloisters were built on the "Rabbits' Island", as it was then called. At the beginning of the nineteenth century members of the royal family living in Buda transformed it into a landscape garden. By the turn of the century it had become a health resort owing to its therapeutic springs. Today the island is one of Budapest's most popular places for walking, bathing, amusement and sports.

On the Pest side there is a monumental building of the Parliament, one of the biggest attractions of Budapest. Souther, near the Chain Bridge (first bridge to connect Buda and Pest, built 1849), there is a Grasham palace and the Hungary Academy of Since. Near the Lagymanyosi bridge there are two new buildings worth to see: the National Theater and the Palace of Arts. The Nationa Theater and the Palace of Art

On the side of Buda you can find Fisherman's bastion and the Royal Castle, both of them very popular tourist sites. Between the Erzsebet bridge and the Liberty bridge there are the Gellert Hill , the Citadel and the Liberation Monument. The famous Gellert Spa Baths with Gellert Hotel are located near the Liberty Bridge.

Budapest Parliament on night All of this attractions are best seen from the river Danube. There are many boat sightseeing tours available, several of them are combined with dinner or visit to the Parliament. If you have enough time, take one tour on day, and one on night, eventaully combined with dinner. It will be really unforgetable expiriance.

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Folk dance

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

Organ concert

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

Symphony concert

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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