Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Budapest, Hungary
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8 km
253 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: Cseh Tamás
Tamás Cseh was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.
Sight 2: Gellért Baths
The Gellért Thermal Bath, also known as the Gellért Baths, is a bath complex in Budapest in Hungary. It is part of the famous Hotel Gellért in Buda.
Sight 3: 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 4: 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 5: Eszperantó park
The Esperanto Park (Budapest) does not officially exist, yet many people call it Esperanto Park!
Sight 6: Tabáni Alexandriai Szent Katalin plébániatemplom
The St. Catherine of Alexandria Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Tabán quarter of Budapest, Hungary. It is the parish church of the Tabán Parish which also comprises parts of Gellért Hill and Naphegy. The church is a listed monument that was built in Central European Baroque style between 1728 and 1777. It was reconstructed several times in the 19th–20th centuries.
Wikipedia: St. Catherine of Alexandria Church, Budapest (EN), Url Miserend
Sight 7: Istenszülő elhunyta Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház
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Sight 8: Contra-Aquincum (római erőd romjai)
Contra-Aquincum is a Roman fortress, an important station of the Pannonian limes. It was built at the beginning of the 2nd century and rebuilt from its foundations at the end of the 3rd century. Its significance was given by its unusually thick walls, control of the eraviscus "capital", as well as the supervision of an ancient trade crossing. The ancient name of Contra-Aquincum is probably Pession (Πέσσιον). Its remains can be found in Budapest V. district, on March 15th Square, not far from Elisabeth Bridge.
Sight 9: The Main Parish Church of the Assumption in the centre of Budapest
Budapest's Inner City Parish Church, officially the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the main parish church of Budapest. It is often referred to as the City Parish Church, or Downtown Parish Church.
Wikipedia: Inner City Parish Church in Pest (EN), Website, Url Miserend, Facebook
Sight 10: Belvárosi Ferences templom
The St. Peter Church of Alcantra in Budapest, often just a downtown Franciscan church, is a church of the Franciscans in downtown Pest, on Ferenciek Square. Roman Catholic, protected as a monument Franciscan church. Its patron saint is St. Peter of Alcantara. Parish church, next to it stands a Franciscan monastery.
Wikipedia: Alcantarai Szent Péter-templom (Budapest) (HU), Url Miserend
Sight 11: Katona József Színház Kamra
The Katona József Theatre has been operating as a theatre with its own company in Petőfi Sándor Street since the autumn of 1982. In a short time, it became Budapest decisive, artistic theater. Even after three decades, he continues to entertain his audience with demanding, internationally renowned productions. The company performed abroad for the first time in 1985, and since then it has visited forty countries in five parts of the world.
Sight 12: Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum
The Ady Endre Memorial Museum in Budapest was an exhibition space (Ady Memorial Apartment) established in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the poet's birth.
Wikipedia: Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum (Budapest) (HU), Facebook, Website
Sight 13: Egyetemi Kisboldogasszony-templom
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, commonly known as the University Church, is a Catholic Church in the Papnövelde Street, Belváros-Lipótváros District in Budapest, Hungary. From 1786 the church belongs to the former Theological Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University, and to the Pázmány Péter Catholic University independent of it; before it was the central church of the Pauline Order. The Central Priestly Educational Institute operates in a block adjacent to the church, so that the liturgical services of the church are performed by the priestly students and the chiefs of the institute. The church has two towers and its towers are 56 meters high.
Wikipedia: Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Budapest (EN), Url Miserend
Sight 14: Károlyi kert
The Károlyi Garden public park in Budapest V district. The oldest garden in the city of Downtown and the palace garden in Hungary are best documented. The garden is bounded by the Ferenczy István street, from the east by the Hungarian street, from the south by the Henslmann Imre street, from the west by the Károlyi Palace. Its area has been 7625 m² since the end of the 17th century.
Sight 15: 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 16: 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 17: Katona József
József Katona was a Hungarian playwright and poet, creator of the Hungarian historical tragedy Bánk bán.
Sight 18: 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 19: II. János Pál pápa tér
Sight 20: Erkel Theatre
The Erkel Theatre is a theatre in Budapest, Hungary. Being the largest public building in the city for decades, it was made part of the Hungarian State Opera House in 1951.
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