Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 9.4 km
Ascend 107 m
Descend 107 m

Explore Budapest in Hungary with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in BudapestIndividual Sights in Budapest

Sight 1: Muzsikus cigányok parkja

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The Gypsy Music Park is located in district VIII of Budapest. It was inaugurated in October 2013. Previously, there was an anonymous public space at the intersection of Baross Street and Szigony Street. Originally, the reliefs of eight famous musicians of gypsy origin were placed in the small square on four limestone columns of isosceles triangular with an edge length of 240 cm and 50 cm edge, by 2017 this was expanded to twelve: Sándor Járóka (1922–1984), Sándor Járóka Jr. (1953–2007), Ernő Bobe Gáspár (1924–1993), László Berki (1941–1997), Jenő Pertis (1903–1971), Sándor Lakatos (1924–1994), Portraits of Gábor József Kozák (1910–1978), György Cziffra (1921–1994), Lajos Kathy-Horváth Sr. (1924–1980), Béla Berki (1948–2013), Lajos Boros (1925–2014) and Sándor Buffó Rigó (1949–2014).

Wikipedia: Muzsikus cigányok parkja (HU)

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Molnár Ferenc tér

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Molnár Ferenc Square is one of Budapest public squares of district VIII.

Wikipedia: Molnár Ferenc tér (HU)

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: ELTE Fűvészkert

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ELTE Fűvészkert

The Botanical Garden in Budapest is Hungary first botanical garden, which has been operating since 2006 as a special educational unit of Eötvös Loránd University in district VIII of Budapest, at 25 Illés Street in Józsefváros. The botanical garden, founded in 1771 in Nagyszombat to help the training of medical science and medical students, has been located in its current location since 1847, after several moves. The fact that in Ferenc Molnár's well-known novel, The Boys of Pál Street, the old palm house of the botanical garden provided a hiding place for Ernő Nemecsek and his friends significantly contributed to his notoriety. The name "Botanical Garden", which has been an official name since 2008, has been preserved and spread in the public consciousness thanks to this novel.

Wikipedia: Füvészkert (Budapest) (HU), Website, Facebook

354 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Hungarian Natural History Museum

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Hungarian Natural History Museum Zoltan Korsos (Hung Nat Hist Mus staff) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, dating back to 1802, houses the largest natural history collections of Hungary and the region.

Wikipedia: Hungarian Natural History Museum (EN), Website, Facebook

1046 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 5: Kaniziusz Szent Péter templom

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St. Peter's Kanizius Church in Budapest is a monumental church in Budapest.

Wikipedia: Kaniziusz Szent Péter-templom (Budapest) (HU), Url Miserend

670 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 6: Páva utcai zsinagóga

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The Páva Street Synagogue is a large-scale Hungarian synagogue building designed by Lipót Baumhorn in the first half of the 20th century, and nowadays it houses the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Budapest Synagogue.

Wikipedia: Páva Street Synagogue, Budapest (EN)

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Holocaust Memorial Center

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The Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection is a museum and memorial site built next to the Páva Street Synagogue that deals with and exhibits the events of the Jewish Holocaust in Hungary.

Wikipedia: Holokauszt Dokumentációs Központ és Emlékhely (HU), Website, Facebook

540 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Museum of Applied Arts

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Museum of Applied Arts

The Museum of Applied Arts is a museum in Budapest, Hungary. It is the third-oldest applied arts museum in the world.

Wikipedia: Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest) (EN), Website, Facebook

16 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Lechner Ödön

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Lechner Ödön

Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vienna Secession. He is famous for decorating his buildings with Zsolnay tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art, which are combined with modern materials such as iron.

Wikipedia: Ödön Lechner (EN)

480 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Assisi Szent Ferenc templom

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Wikipedia: Assisi Szent Ferenc-templom (Ferencváros) (HU), Website, Url Miserend

965 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 11: Great Market Hall

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The Great Market Hall or Central Market Hall, Market Hall I is the largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest, Hungary. The idea of building such a large market hall arose from the first mayor of Budapest, Károly Kamermayer, and it was his largest investment. He retired in 1896 and participated in the opening ceremony on February 15, 1897.

Wikipedia: Great Market Hall (EN), Website

989 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 12: Mérnöki tudományok

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730 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Dar Al Salam mecset

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Dar Al Salam mecset

The Dar-Allam Mosque is a mosque in Budapest that operates on the ground floor of the dwelling house at Bartók Béla út 29.

Wikipedia: Dar-Alszalam mecset (HU)

159 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Gárdonyi Géza

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Gárdonyi Géza

Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the Crescent Moon and Slave of the Huns.

Wikipedia: Géza Gárdonyi (EN)

476 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Móricz Zsigmond

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Móricz Zsigmond

Zsigmond Móricz was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist.

Wikipedia: Zsigmond Móricz (EN), Artist Wikipedia

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: József Attila

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József Attila

Attila József was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet" and he has become the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally.

Wikipedia: Attila József (EN)

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Dr. Kőrősy József

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Dr. Kőrősy József

József Kőrösy Szántó is a statistician, hygienist, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the most influential Hungarian statisticians of the second half of the 19th century, and his theoretical and methodological innovations and the index calculation methods he introduced gave him international fame. As a practical statistician, he dealt with Budapest's demography, economic and social conditions, and did a lot for the development of the public health situation of the capital. From 1870 until his death he was the first director of the Budapest Statistical Office, which later became a member institution of the Central Statistical Office. He changed his birth name to József Kőrösi in 1869 and to József Kőrösy in 1875, but used a mixture of these two variants during his lifetime. After obtaining the title of nobility in 1896, he took the noble title of Szántó in 1897. Kornél Kőrösy (1879–1948) physician, physiologist, geneticist father, grandfather of Ferenc Kőrösy (1906–1997), chemical engineer.

Wikipedia: Kőrösy József (HU)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Magyar Advent Temploma

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The Reformed Church of Kelenföld or the Church of Hungarian Advent is a religious building under monument protection in Budapest.

Wikipedia: Kelenföldi református templom (HU), Website

1513 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 19: Kelenföldi autóbuszgarázs

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Kelenföldi autóbuszgarázs Az eredeti feltöltő Misibacsi a(z) magyar Wikipédia projektből volt / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Kelenföld bus garage or Hamzsabegi út bus garage in Budapest is one of the 5 bus garages currently operating by Budapest Transport Zrt. It is the second oldest site established specifically for this purpose.

Wikipedia: Kelenföldi autóbuszgarázs (HU), Website, Url

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