Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #17 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 4.7 km
Ascend 68 m
Descend 63 m

Experience Budapest in Hungary in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BudapestIndividual Sights in Budapest

Sight 1: roller-coaster

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roller-coaster

The City Park Roller Coaster is one of the oldest working wooden roller coasters in the world. It was built in 1922 and was originally called Mountain Railway. It was the biggest stunt of the English Park and later the Budapest Amusement Park.

Wikipedia: Hullámvasút (Budapest) (HU)

816 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Szent László-kápolna

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The Chapel of Jak, precisely known as St. Ladislaus Chapel of Jak, is a building originally built in the 20th century for non-religious purposes in Budapest, imitating a church. The Chapel of Jaki is part of the Castle of Vajdahunyad and belongs to the Hungarian Agricultural Museum. At the same time, it is administered by the Hungarian Catholic Church and belongs to the church on Kassai Square in district XIV, the Holy Spirit Parish of Budapest-Herminamező.

Wikipedia: Jáki kápolna (HU), Url Miserend

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Museum of Hungarian Agriculture

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The Hungarian Museum of Agriculture, from its foundation to 1950, is one of the most significant museums in Budapest, the national professional museum, the capital of the capital. District, City Park, with hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. According to some sources, Europe is the largest collection of agriculture in agriculture and is probably the world's first agricultural museum. For years, the museum presents a permanent and annual multi-period exhibitions of its 39 specialty collections in 2016, estimated to be more than 400,000. It is rightly considered "the richest public collection of the Hungarian countryside". He organizes programs, participates in Museum Night and Researchers' Night, and has been publishing a serious book publishing for decades, and in addition to unique works, he also publishes a number of agricultural history books. Research services for those who want to know deeperly on objects and documents. It is present in different parts of the electronic world, maintaining contact with other museums, maintaining rural exhibitions, and its library is about 250,000 volumes and 180,000 magazines the most serious collection of agricultural history books in Hungary.

Wikipedia: Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum (HU), Website, Facebook

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Vajdahunyad Castle

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Vajdahunyad Castle is a castle in the City Park of Budapest, Hungary. It is a copy of Hunyad Castle, known as Corvin Castle, in Hunedoara, Romania. It was built in 1896 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1,000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The castle was designed by Ignác Alpár to feature copies of several landmark buildings from different parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, especially the Hunyad Castle in Transylvania. As the castle contains parts of buildings from various time periods, it displays different architectural styles: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque. Originally, it was made from cardboard and wood, but it became so popular that it was rebuilt from stone and brick between 1904 and 1908. Today, it houses the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture, the biggest agricultural museum in Europe.

Wikipedia: Vajdahunyad Castle (EN), Website

603 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Palace of Art

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The Budapest Hall of Art or Palace of Art,, is a contemporary art museum and a historic building located in Budapest, Hungary.

Wikipedia: Hall of Art, Budapest (EN), Website, Facebook

367 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Museum of Fine Arts

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Museum of Fine Arts Marc Ryckaert (MJJR) / CC BY 3.0

The Museum of Fine Arts is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art.

Wikipedia: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) (EN), Opening Hours, Facebook, Website

740 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Postamúzeum

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The Post Museum is the name of the Hungarian museum presenting the history and operation of the post office, which has filiales in the capital, in large cities and in the countryside. The exhibition spaces are maintained by the Postakürt Foundation.

Wikipedia: Postamúzeum (HU), Facebook

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts

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Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts is an art museum in Budapest, Hungary.

Wikipedia: Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts (EN), Website, Facebook

395 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Epreskert

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Epreskert

Epreskert Art Colony was an artists' colony in Budapest in the last decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Among the artists who worked and lived there the most important were sculptors György Zala and Adolf Huszár, and painter Árpád Feszty.

Wikipedia: Epreskert Art Colony (EN), Website

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Szent Család templom

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Szend Family Church is a church building in Budapest.

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

731 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Budapest Puppet Theatre

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The Budapest Puppet Theater has been open since 1949, with its primary venue currently situated at 69 Andrássy út, Budapest. Since then, both children and adults are warmly welcome to their performances, because they have a motto that “the puppet is not the matter of age, but a genre.”

Wikipedia: Budapest Puppet Theatre (EN), Website

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