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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you get important sights, with photo graphs, maps
the most from your stay in Budapest with and illustrations. It also includes day trips
the minimum of difficulty. The opening from Budapest and three walks around the
section, Introducing Budapest, locates the city. Information about hotels, restaurants,
city geo graphically, sets modern Budapest shops and markets, entertainment and
in its historical context and de scribes events sports is found in Travellers’ Needs. The
through the entire year. Budapest at a Glance Survival Guide has advice on everything
is an overview of the city’s main attrac tions. from using the postal service and telephones
Budapest Area by Area is the main sight­ to Budapest’s public trans port system
seeing section and covers all of the and medical services.

Finding Your Way Around the Sightseeing Section
Each of the six sightseeing areas in Budapest is illustrating typical parts of that area. Finding
colour-coded for easy reference. Every chapter your way around the chapter is made simple
opens with an introduction to the area of the by the numbering system used throughout.
city it covers, describing its history and charac ter, The most important sights are covered in
and has one or two Street-by-Street maps detail in two or more full pages.

Introduction to the area
BUD APEST AREA B Y AREA  145
AROUND VÁROSLIGET 1For easy reference, the sights in each
Városliget, or City Park, was once an area chosen as the focus of the Millennium
of marshland, which served as a royal Celebrations in 1896 (see p146), which area are numbered and plotted on an
hunting ground. Leopold I gave the land marked the 1,000-year anniversary of
to the town of Pest, but it was in the mid- the conquest of the Carpathian basin
18th century, under Maria Theresa, that by the Magyars. A massive building area map. To help the visitor, this map
the area was drained and planted. Today’s programme was undertaken, which
park was designed towards the end of the included the Museum of Fine Arts,
19th century in the English style, which Vajdahunyad Castle and the impressive also shows underground stations,
was the fashion of the day. Városliget was monument in Heroes’ Square.
Sights at a Glance main bus and tram stops, and parking
Museums Restaurants pp204–5 10 Napfényes Étterem
1 House of Terror Museum 1 Bagolyvár Étterem 11 Olimpia Étterem
2 Franz Liszt Museum 2 Bock Bisztró 12 Paprika Vendéglő areas. The area’s key sights are listed
4 Kodály Memorial Museum 3 Ecocafe 13 La Perle Noire
6 Postal Museum 4 Grundel Étterem 14 Platán Étterem
7 Millennium Underground 5 Haxen Király Étterem 15 Rákóczi Grillház
Railway & Museum 6 Himalaya Nepáli Étterem 16 Regős Vendéglő
9 Műcsarnok Art Gallery 7 Kogart Étterem 17 Robinson by category: Museums and Galleries;
0 Museum of Fine Arts pp150–51 8 Millennium da Pippo 18 Széchenyi Kertvendéglő
9 Montenegrói Gurman 19 Zeller Bistro
Parks and Zoos Churches; Historic Streets and Squares;
w Zoo
Streets and Monuments
5 Városligeti Avenue VÁGÁNY U. VARANNÓ 0 metres 400 Palaces and Historic Buildings; Hotels
8 Millennium Monument U. 0 yards 400
r Hermina Street ÁLLATKERTI KÖRÚT
Historic Buildings Széchenyi fürdő and Baths; and Parks and Gardens.
3 University of Fine Art KÓS KÁROLY SÉTÁNY H UNG ÁRIA K
q Vajdahunyad Castle DÓZSA GYÖRGY ÚT
e Széchenyi Baths HOSÖK TERE H E R M I N A Ú T
t Erkel Theatre MIMÓZA ÖR ÚT
ANDRÁSSY ÚT Hosök tere Városliget
Bajza utca XIV HERMINA ÚT
Kodály
körönd BENCZÚR U. VÁROSLIGETI FASOR DÓZSA GYÖRGY ÚT A J T Ó S I D Ü R E R S O R STEFÁNIA ÚT JÁVOR U.
ANDRÁSSY ÚT ERDŐSOR FELSŐ DAMJANICH U. ZICHY GÉZA U.
Vörösmarty SZÍV U. BAJZA U. ABONYI U. TH Ö K ÖLY ÚT A locator map
utca RÓZSA U. VII HERNÁD U. DEMBINSZKY U. MAREK JÓZSEF U. CHÁZÁR ANDRÁS U. SZABÓ J. U.
MURÁNYI U.
U. CSENGERY K I R Á LY U . JÓSIKA U. BETHLEN GÁBOR U. NEFELEJCS U. ISTVÁN ÚT CSERHÁT U. SAJÓ U. shows where you
Oktogon EÖTVÖS U. HEVESI S. DOB U.
TÉR
GÁBOR BETHLEN ALPÁR U.
TÉR PÉTERFY SÁNDOR U. are in relation to
RÓZSA U.
WESSELÉNYI U. ALMÁSSY U. DOHÁNY U. Keleti the other areas
VÖRÖSMARTY U.
DOB U. CSENGERY U. R O T TENBI L LE R U . GARAY U. THÖKÖLY ÚT JOBBÁGY U.
IZABELLA U.
ERZSÉBET KÖRÚT
ALSÓ U.
HÁRSFA U. RÁKÓCZI ÚT MUNKÁS U. KEREPESI ÚT Pályaudvar
in the city centre.
FIUMEI ÚT
Blaha L. BEZERÉDJ U. BERZSENYI D. U.
JÓZSEF KÖRÚT
tér II. JÁNOS PÁL
PÁPA TÉR DOLOGHÁZ U.
KISS JÓZSEF U.
Il. János Pál See also Street Finder
NÉPSZÍNHÁZ U.
LUTHER U.
pápa tér maps 5, 6, 7 & 8
One of the outdoor pools at Széchenyi Baths For keys to symbols see back flap
Street-by-Street map 82  BUD APEST AREA B Y AREA C ASTLE DISTRIC T  83
2This gives a bird’s-eye view of interesting Street-by-Street: the Old Town q . Mátyás Church NORTH OF THE
Although with much earlier
CASTLE DISTRICT
and important parts of each sightseeing Buda’s old town has been a barometer of Hungary’s parts, this church is mainly CASTLE DISTRICT
a Neo-Gothic reconstruction
changing fortunes. It developed, to the north of the Royal
dating from 1874–96.
A pictur esque vestibule on
Palace, from the 13th century. Under kings such as
area. The num bering of the sights ties Sigismund, it flourished, and wealthy German merchants set the church’s southern façade Locator Map GELLÉRT HILL
covers an original Gothic
up shops in Lords’ Street (Úri utca) to supply the court. The
portal dating from the
area was later destroyed by the Turks and again by their
AND TABÁN
14th century.
evictors, the Holy League army formed of European
up with the area map and the fuller Christians. It was rebuilt after World War II, but genuine t Mihály Táncsics Street See Street Finder, maps 1 & 9
During the Middle Ages, this street
was inhabited by Jews. A museum
relics can be hunted out in its cobbled streets and squares.
at No. 26, on the site of an old
de scription on the pages that follow. synagogue, displays finds such
as tombstones.
This statue of St
Stephen, or István, the
first crowned king of
B É CSI Hungary (see pp24–5), was w Fishermen’s Bastion
K APU erected in 1906. Its Designed by Frigyes Schulek
T É R in 1895, this fantastical
pedestal includes a bas- structure never had
relief showing scenes the role of a defensive
from the king’s life. building, despite its
name. It serves instead
as a viewing terrace.
The conical towers
The State Archive of Historic F O R T U N A U T C A T Á N C S I C S M U T C A are an allusion to the
Each area has colour- Documents, located in a Neo- Ú R I U T C A tribal tents of the
early Magyars.
Romanesque building, houses
items that were transferred to
coded thumb tabs. Buda in 1785 from the former O R S Z Á G H Á Z U T C A 9 Holy Trinity Square
capital of Hungary, Bratislava.
In 1713, after overcoming
an epidemic of the plague,
a column represent ing the
Holy Trinity was raised in
this square.
Defensive walls
0 metres 50
0 yards 50
i Church of St Mary Magdalene T Á R N O K U T C A
The reconstructed Baroque tower is all that a . Lords’ Street
A suggested route takes in some remains of the 13th-century Church of St Once the homes of Pharmacy Museum
Mary Magdalene, where Emperor Francis I
aristocrats and mer-
8 Golden Eagle
chants, the houses on
was crowned King of Hungary in 1792.
From the 18th century
of the most interesting and Key Suggested route Úri utca have medi eval “Under the Golden Eagle”
foundations. Many have
a pharmacy called
Gothic details and
traded in this medieval
peaceful courtyards.
attractive streets in the area. house, now a museum.
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