Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Budapest, Hungary
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6.3 km
204 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: Citadella
The Citadella is the fortification located upon the top of Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. Citadella is the Hungarian word for citadel, a kind of fortress. The word is exclusively used by other languages to refer to the Gellért Hill citadel which occupies a place which held strategic importance in Budapest's military history.
Sight 2: Gellért Hill
Gellért Hill is a 235 m (771 ft) high hill overlooking the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the 1st and the 11th districts. The hill was named after Saint Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill. The famous Hotel Gellért and the Gellért Baths can be found in Gellért Square at the foot of the hill, next to Liberty Bridge. The Gellért Hill Cave is also located on the hill, facing the hotel and the Danube.
Sight 3: Liberty Statue
The Liberty Statue or Freedom Statue is a monument on the Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. It commemorates those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary.
Sight 4: Gellért Hill Cave
The Gellért Hill Cave is part of a network of caves within Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. The cave is also referred to as "Saint Ivan's Cave", regarding a hermit who lived there and is believed to have used the natural thermal water of a muddy lake next to the cave to heal the sick. It is likely that this same water fed the pools of the old Sáros fürdő, now called Gellért Baths.
Sight 5: Great Market Hall
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.
Sight 6: Wenckheim-palota
The Wenckheim Palace Historical Building Budapest VIII. district, in the Inner Józsefváros "Palace Quarter", Szabó Ervin Square. Today, the Central Library of the Szabó Ervin Library in Budapest.
Sight 7: Kós Károly
Károly Kós was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania.
Sight 8: Festetics palota
Andrássy University Budapest (AUB) is a private university in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Andrássy University Budapest was founded in 2001 and is the only completely German-language university outside the German-speaking countries. As a European university in Hungary, it is supported by five partner states and also by Switzerland and the autonomous region of Trentino-South Tyrol.
Sight 9: Rockenbauer Pál
Pál Rockenbauer [pronounced rɔkⁿbær] is a hiker, world traveler, television editor, one of the creators of Hungarian television nature filmmaking. Most of them are known for his cross-country blue tour films, One and a Half Million Steps in Hungary, which has been screened several times on TV, and ... and He is known for his series A Million More Steps. His son is art historian and politician Zoltán Rockenbauer.
Sight 10: Kármán Tódor
Theodore von Kármán, was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow. The human-defined threshold of outer space is named the "Kármán line" in recognition of his work. Kármán is regarded as an outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century.
Sight 11: Katona József
József Katona was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy Bánk bán.
Sight 12: Mikszáth Kálmán
Kálmán Mikszáth de Kiscsoltó was a widely reputed Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician. His work remains in print in Hungarian and still appears from time to time in other languages.
Sight 13: Sacred Heart Jesuit Church
The Church of the Heart of Jesus in Józsefváros is a Hungarian monumental church in Budapest VIII. district.
Wikipedia: Jézus szíve templom (Budapest) (HU), Url, Url Miserend
Sight 14: 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
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: Szent József templom
St. Joseph's Parish Church, commonly known as the Józsefváros Parish Church, is the largest church in Budapest VIII. district. Its two-towered building is an outstanding monument of Hungarian classicist late Baroque architecture. Its towers are 70 meters high. [citation needed]
Wikipedia: Szent József-templom (Józsefváros) (HU), Url Miserend
Sight 17: Muzsikus cigányok parkja
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).
Sight 18: Mátyás tér
Matthias Square is located in the VIII district of Budapest, in the Magdalene Quarter. From the square you can directly reach Bauer Sándor, Szerdahely, Dankó, Koszorú, Springfield, József and Nagytruckos streets. In the 2010s, the square was surrounded and tidy as a park, playground and pedestrian zone.
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