Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Budapest, Hungary
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11.4 km
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 BudapestSight 1: Fasori evangélikus templom
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.
Sight 2: Andrássy Avenue and the Underground
Budapest World Heritage sites are the view of the Danube bank, the Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue.
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: Andrássy Élményközpont
Sight 5: Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre
The Budapest Operetta Theatre is a musical theatre in Budapest.
Sight 6: Bessenyei Ferenc
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.
Sight 7: Batthyány's sanctuary lamp
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.
Sight 8: Shoes on the Danube Bank
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: 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
Sight 11: Antonio Bonfini
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.
Sight 12: Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum
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.
Sight 13: Erdélyi bástya
Erdélyi Bastion is a bastion at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. It is sometimes called in English the Transylvanian bastion.
Sight 14: Lutheran Church of Budavár
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.
Sight 15: Vienna Gate
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.
Sight 16: Bécsi kapu tér
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.
Sight 17: Cseh Tamás archívum
Tamás Cseh was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.
Sight 18: Szent Lázár templom romjai
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.
Sight 19: Gesztenyés kert
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.
Sight 20: 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.
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