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e Buda Hills
Budai-hegység
q Széll Kálmán tér, then v 56, then
cog-wheel railway and chair lift.
To the west of the city centre
are the wooded Buda Hills.
There are many caves here,
including Szemlőhegyi and
Pálvölgyi-barlang.
The first station of a
cog- wheel railway, built in
1874, is on Szilágyi Erzsébet
fasor. This runs up Sváb Hill –
named after the Germanic
Foyer in the Palace of Arts, a multi-arts performance venue Swabians, who settled here
under the Habsburgs (see pp44–5)
q Palace of Arts fence of the wild and craggy – and then Széchenyi Hill.
(MÜPA) 300-sq-m (360-sq-yd) reserve From Széchenyi Hill a
Művészetek Palotája that it encloses. It is worth taking narrow-gauge railway covers
the guided walk in the reserve, a 12-km (7-mile) route to the
Komor Marcell utca 1. v 1, 2, 2A, 24. parti cularly in spring or early Hűvös Valley. As in the days
Ticket office (for all events): Tel (1) 555 autumn. This is one of the only of the Soviet Young Pioneers
33 00 or online. Open 10am–6pm places to see the endangered movement, the railway is staffed
daily. 8 ∑ mupa.hu Museum of Centaurea sadleriana, a flower by children, apart from the adult
Contemporary Art: Tel (1) 555 34 44.
Open 10am–8pm Tue–Sun. that resembles a cornflower but train drivers. At the top of János
∑ ludwigmuseum.hu with a much larger flower head. Hill stands the Erzsébet Look-
The reserve is also home to a Out Tower, designed by Frigyes
The Palace of Arts, located in the blue grass and a spider found Schulek in 1910. A chair lift
Millennium City Centre on the Pest nowhere else in the world, as connects János Hill with
side of the Danube, between well as extra ordinary, colourful Zugligeti út and this is a good
Lágymányos Bridge and the butterflies and a rare lizard. way of making the descent.
new National Theatre, brings
together all the arts under one
roof. Permanent residents in
the palace include the Ludwig
Museum of Con tem porary Art,
the Béla Bartók National Concert
Hall, the Festival Theatre and the
National Dance Theatre.
w Eagle Hill Nature
Reserve
Sas-hegy Természetvédelmi Terület
Tájék utca 26. Tel (30) 477 67 20, (30)
408 43 70. @ 8, 8A. Open 10am–6pm
Tue, Fri–Sun & pub hols, or by
arrangement. 8 compulsory.
A nature reserve such as
this that is close to the
centre of a large city is a
remark able phenomenon.
Access to the summit of
this steep, 266-m- (872-ft-)
high hill to the west of Gellért
Hill (see pp73) is strictly regulated
to protect the extremely rare
animal and plant species found
here. A smart residential quar ter
of attractive bourgeois villas,
which lies on the lower slope of
Eagle Hill, extends almost to the The Erzsébet Look-Out Tower at the summit of János Hill, Buda Hills

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