Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 10.6 km
Ascend 253 m
Descend 412 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: Ferenc-hegyi-barlang

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The Ferenc Mountain Cave is Hungary seventh longest cave. It originates from Hévíz, like the other caves in Rózsadomb. In 1982 it was declared one of Hungary's specially protected caves.

Wikipedia: Ferenc-hegyi-barlang (HU), Website

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Ferenc-hegy

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Ferenc Hill is located in the Buda Hills in the 2nd district of Budapest.

Wikipedia: Ferenc Hill (EN)

1163 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 3: Szemlő-hegyi-barlang

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The Szemlő-hegyi Cave is one of Budapest caves built for tourist purposes. The specially protected cave is part of the Danube-Ipoly National Park Directorate. The surface protection zone of the cave is a nature reserve of national importance protected by individual legislation under the name of Szemlő-hegyi Cave Surface Protection Area.

Wikipedia: Szemlő-hegyi-barlang (HU), Website, Facebook

1131 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 4: Pál-völgyi cave

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The Pál-Valley Cave System is the longest cave in Hungary. One of Hungary's highly protected caves. One part, a cave of the Pál-Valley Cave in Budapest for tourism purposes. The surface defense area of the cave, approximately 4.7 hectares, is in the management of the Danube -Ipoly National Park as a protected nature reserve of national importance. The length for tourists is 500 meters.

Wikipedia: Pál-völgyi-barlangrendszer (HU), Website, Facebook

774 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Mátyás-hegy

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Matthias Hill is one of the heights of the Buda Hills in Budapest inner area, more specifically in the block of the Triple Border Hill, one of the southern forerunners of the 495-meter-high main peak. Its highest point, which reaches a height of 301 meters, is located in district III, in the area of the district called Óbuda hills, and is the namesake of the separate Mátyáshegy district.

Wikipedia: Mátyás-hegy (HU)

1386 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 6: Kiscelli Múzeum

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Kiscelli Múzeum

BTM Kiscell Museum – Budapest Gallery, abbreviated as Kiscell Museum is a cultural institution founded and maintained by the capital in Budapest III. district. The museum building houses the two member institutions of the Budapest History Museum, which are separate in terms of organization and collection, but operate side by side and exhibit.

Wikipedia: Kiscelli Múzeum (HU), Website

561 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: Szent Vér kápolna

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Szent Vér kápolna

The building complex and the ancient park belonging to it are located in the Budapest III. district of Kiscell Castle and Park Forest, between the districts of Óbuda and Remethegy, behind Szent Margaret Hospital and Óbuda University. The church and Trinitarian monastery, built in the 18th century in Baroque style, were used by the army in the 19th century. In 1910, furniture manufacturer Miksa Schmidt bought the building complex and had it converted into a castle (Schmidt Castle). Nowadays the Budapest History Museum – Kiscell Museum houses exhibitions on urban history and fine art. A hiking trail leads through the forest park, where you can find the Calvary and Golgotha statue group of Kiscell, as well as the Chapel of the Holy Blood.

Wikipedia: Kiscelli kastély és parkerdő (HU), Website, Url, Url Miserend

371 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: MÁV V43 villanymozdony

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MÁV V43 villanymozdony Fazekas Attila / CC BY-SA 3.0

The MÁV Class V43 is a Hungarian electric locomotive with a box-like appearance. It was meant to replace the MÁV Class V40 and MÁV Class V60, as well as the widespread Class 424 steam locomotives. A total of 379 locomotives were built between 1963 and 1982.

Wikipedia: MÁV Class V43 (EN)

815 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 9: Goldberger Textilipari Gyűjtemény

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Goldberger Textilipari Gyűjtemény

The Goldberger Textile Collection was established on the site of the former Museum of Textile and Textile Apparel Industrial History. The Textile Museum was an institution preserving the material and intellectual memories of the Hungarian textile and clothing industry in Óbuda, district III of Budapest, which was an important site in the development of the domestic textile industry. The museum in its original form no longer exists, it is replaced by the Óbuda Museum – Goldberger Textile Collection.

Wikipedia: Textil- és Textilruházati Ipartörténeti Múzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism

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Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism

The Hungarian Museum of Trade and Catering is a national specialist museum, whose collection covers the cultural assets of domestic trade, the hospitality industry, as well as the history of tourism and tourism.

Wikipedia: Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Flórián tér

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Flórián tér FOTO:Fortepan — ID 93466: Adományozó/Donor: Kristek Pál. archivált másolat at the Wayback Machine / CC BY-SA 3.0

Flórián tér is a public space in Budapest III. district.

Wikipedia: Flórián tér (HU)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Fürdőmúzeum

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The Bath Museum is one of the exhibition spaces of the Budapest History Museum in Budapest III. district, at Flórián tér 3-5, in the pedestrian underpass. The exhibition presents the remains of the public bath (therma) of the military camp belonging to Roman Aquincum.

Wikipedia: Fürdőmúzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: AQUINCUM CASTRUM

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Aquincum was an ancient city, situated on the northeastern borders of the province of Pannonia within the Roman Empire. The ruins of the city can be found today in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. It is believed that Marcus Aurelius wrote at least part of his book Meditations at Aquincum.

Wikipedia: Aquincum (EN), Url, Url Limes_pannonia

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Zichy-kastély

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The Baroque-style Zichy Castle was built between 1746 and 1752 with the participation of master stonemason János Henrik Jäger and sculptor Károly Bebo. The outbuildings were also completed in the 18th century.

Wikipedia: Zichy-kastély (Óbuda) (HU)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Victor Vasarely Múzeum

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The Vasarely Museum is a large-scale permanent exhibition of the works of Victor Vasarely in Budapest III. district, on Holy Spirit Square.

Wikipedia: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest) (HU), Website, Facebook

346 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Kassák Lajos Emlékmúzeum

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The Lajos Kassák Memorial Museum is an exhibition of Hungarian writer, poet and painter Lajos Kassák. district.

Wikipedia: Kassák Lajos Emlékmúzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

443 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Antonio Bonfini

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Antonio Bonfini (1427‒1502) was an Italian humanist and poet serving as a court historian in Hungary under King Matthias Corvinus during the last years of his career.

Wikipedia: Antonio Bonfini (EN), Website

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Szent Péter és Pál templom

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The monumental St. Peter and Paul Church belongs to the main parish of Óbuda. It stands in district III, on Lajos Street. It is the largest church in district III.

Wikipedia: Szent Péter és Pál-főplébánia-templom (Óbuda) (HU), Url Miserend

1170 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 19: Musical Fountain

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The Bodor Fountain or musical fountain is one of the two musical fountains on Margaret Island, located at the northern end of the island, facing Árpád Bridge. This is the island's traditional attraction known as the "musical fountain".

Wikipedia: Zenélő kút (Margit-sziget) (HU)

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