Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 11.4 km
Ascend 352 m
Descend 282 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: Fasori evangélikus templom

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The Lutheran Church of Fasor stands in district VII of Budapest, on the corner of Városligeti fasor and Bajza street. The most ornate Protestant church of the capital, after the Lutheran church on Deák Square, is the second largest Lutheran church in Budapest. It forms one block with the building of the Lutheran High School in Fasor.

Wikipedia: Fasori evangélikus templom (HU)

791 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Andrássy Avenue and the Underground

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Budapest World Heritage sites are the view of the Danube bank, the Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue.

Wikipedia: Budapest világörökségi helyszínei (HU)

692 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Ady Endre

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Ady Endre

Endre Ady was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century, he was noted for his steadfast belief in social progress and development and for his poetry's exploration of fundamental questions of the modern European experience: love, temporality, faith, individuality, and patriotism.

Wikipedia: Endre Ady (EN), Website

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Andrássy Élményközpont

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273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre

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The Budapest Operetta Theatre is a musical theatre in Budapest.

Wikipedia: Budapesti Operettszínház (HU), Website

802 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 6: Bessenyei Ferenc

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Ferenc Bessenyei was a Hungarian actor and singer. He began his career in the choir at National Theatre of Szeged in 1940 and became one of Hungary's most respected stage performers. As singer he appeared in My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba the Greek. He was a tall man with a deep, powerful voice. He was elected to the Revolutionary Council of the Hungarian Intelligentsia in the 1956 revolt and was not allowed to perform for two years. He was awarded the "Actor of Nation" in 2000. He appeared in 75 films between 1960 and 2001. His second wife was Hédi Váradi actress.

Wikipedia: Ferenc Bessenyei (EN)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Batthyány's sanctuary lamp

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Batthyány's sanctuary lamp The original uploader was Misibacsi at Hungarian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Batthyány's sanctuary lamp is a national monument, located at the corner of Báthory Street and Hold Street in Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary. It sits on the former location of the courtyard of the New Building, where Count Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary, was executed on 6th October 1849.

Wikipedia: Batthyány's sanctuary lamp (EN)

880 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 8: Shoes on the Danube Bank

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Shoes on the Danube Bank

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

Wikipedia: Shoes on the Danube Bank (EN)

1259 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 9: Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He changed his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.

Wikipedia: Akseli Gallen-Kallela (EN)

524 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Budapest History Museum

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Budapest History Museum

The Budapest History Museum is one of the most important museums in Budapest, collecting documents and material memories of the history of the capital. A municipal institution, but officially classified as a national museum. Its headquarters in Budapest is under I., Szent György tér 2.

Wikipedia: Budapesti Történeti Múzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

760 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 12: Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum

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The Golden Eagle Pharmacy was the first pharmacy in Buda, after the expulsion of the Turks, it was founded in 1687 in today's house No. 1-2 Ornamental Square by Ferenc Ignác Bösinger. Between 1687 and 1696 the pharmacy moved to 6 Ornamental Square. Bösinger also opened a branch pharmacy in Watertown, which later became known as the Black Bear Pharmacy.

Wikipedia: Arany Sas Patikamúzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Erdélyi bástya

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Erdélyi Bastion is a bastion at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. It is sometimes called in English the Transylvanian bastion.

Wikipedia: Erdélyi Bastion (EN)

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Lutheran Church of Budavár

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Lutheran Church of Budavár is the oldest Lutheran church of Buda. It was built in 1895 at Vienna Gate Square in the 1st District of Budapest. The first church for the Lutherans of Buda was built by Maria Dorothea, third wife of Palatine Joseph, in 1846, at hu:Dísz tér. The site was taken over by the Ministry of Defence, so a new church was built near Vienna Gate.

Wikipedia: Lutheran Church of Budavár (EN), Website

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Vienna Gate

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Vienna Gate The original uploader was Gyurika at Hungarian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Vienna Gate is located at the Vienna Gate Square, Buda Castle, in 1st District, Budapest, Hungary. As the name suggests, it was the port connecting the Castle with the highway to Vienna.

Wikipedia: Vienna Gate (EN)

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Bécsi kapu tér

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Bécsi kapu tér Az eredeti feltöltő Gyurika a(z) magyar Wikipédia projektből volt / CC BY-SA 3.0

Vienna Gate Square is a public space located in Budapest I. district, in the Buda Castle District, at the junction of Ostrom Street, Táncsics Mihály Street and Nándor Street.

Wikipedia: Bécsi kapu tér (Budapest) (HU)

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Cseh Tamás archívum

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Cseh Tamás archívum

Tamás Cseh was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.

Wikipedia: Tamás Cseh (EN), Facebook, Operator

636 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Szent Lázár templom romjai

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Settlements existed on the territory of today's Budapest already in ancient times, the territory of which, after their disappearance, from the Árpád era onwards, was shared not only by the three cities, Óbuda, Buda and Pest, but also by villages, sometimes quite close to the city walls. Their inhabitants are serfs, royal officials and other court people. All of these settlements were either merged into larger, later villages, which later became Budapest districts in the 1950 spatial planning, or were abandoned early, during the Tatar invasion or later during the Turkish occupation.

Wikipedia: Elpusztult települések Budapest területén (HU)

1980 meters / 24 minutes

Sight 19: Gesztenyés kert

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The Chestnut Garden is a public park of approximately 35,000 square meters in the German Valley, in the XII district of Budapest, not far from its easternmost streets. It is one of the most popular recreational parks for the inhabitants of the Hungarian capital, and often serves as a venue for events.

Wikipedia: Gesztenyés-kert (HU)

1012 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 20: Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum

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Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum

The Bavarian Gizi Actors' Museum was opened on the first anniversary of Gizi Bavaria's death, on February 12, 1952, at the initiative of Hilda Gobbi in the former villa of Bavarian Gizi.

Wikipedia: Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

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