Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.5 km
Ascend 364 m
Descend 234 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: Great Synagogue

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Great Synagogue The original uploader was OsvátA at Hungarian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is a historical building on Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros, the 7th district of Budapest, Hungary. It is the largest synagogue in Europe, seating 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism.

Wikipedia: Dohány Street Synagogue (EN), Website, Facebook

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Belvárosi Színház

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The downtown theater is one of the recipient theaters of Budapest, Károly Boulevard, which opened its doors in 2004. Outside its name, Artúr Bárdos has no relationship between 1917 and 1951 with this name.

Wikipedia: Belvárosi Színház (2004-től) (HU)

259 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Madách-házak

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Madách Imre Square in Budapest's Erzsébetváros is more than a hundred years old. It is named after writer Imre Madách.

Wikipedia: Madách Imre tér (HU)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: IV. Károly király

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IV. Károly király

Charles I or Karl I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Croatia, King of Bohemia, and the last of the monarchs belonging to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine to rule over Austria-Hungary. The son of Archduke Otto of Austria and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Charles became heir presumptive of Emperor Franz Joseph when his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in 1914. In 1911, he married Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 3 October 2004, and is known to the Catholic Church as Blessed Karl of Austria.

Wikipedia: Charles I of Austria (EN), Website

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Underground Railway Museum

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The Underground Railway Museum, also known as the Millennium Underground Museum, is a museum located under Deák Ferenc square in the centre of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest. It is accessible from the pedestrian subway system that links the square to Deák Ferenc tér metro station and is housed in a tunnel that once carried the tracks of line M1 of the Budapest Metro.

Wikipedia: Underground Railway Museum (Budapest) (EN), Website, Facebook

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Deák téri evangélikus templom

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Deák téri evangélikus templom Az eredeti feltöltő Misibacsi a(z) magyar Wikipédia projektből volt / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Lutheran Church on Deák Square is Budapest oldest and best-known Lutheran church, a classicist-style hall church without a tower on Deák Ferenc Square in Budapest. The largest Protestant church in Budapest. Many other Lutheran institutions operate in the block formed together with the adjoining buildings, which is why the area is often called Insula Lutherana.

Wikipedia: Deák téri evangélikus templom (Budapest) (HU)

198 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Erzsébet Square

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Erzsébet Square

In the V. district of Erzsébet Square Budapest. It is bordered by Vienna Street, József Attila Street, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street and Thirty ad Street. This is the largest green space in downtown Pest.

Wikipedia: Erzsébet tér (Budapest) (HU)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Belvárosi Szent Anna-plébániatemplom

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The Church of St Anna in Central City, also known as the Servita church in Budapest, is located in the Central City, in the Servita Square. Until the end of World War II, it was in the management of the organic order, and today it belongs to the Main Pébáni of the Central Majesty of the Grand Majesty of Central. The church is a monument classified in category I under Act LIV of 1997.

Wikipedia: Belvárosi Szent Anna-plébániatemplom (HU), Url Miserend

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Katona József színház

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Katona József színház Katona József Színház / engedélyezett logó

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.

Wikipedia: Katona József Színház (Budapest) (HU)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Istenszülő elhunyta Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház

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395 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Little Princess

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The original 50 cm statuette of the Little Princess (Kiskirálylány) Statue sitting on the railings of the Danube promenade in Budapest, Hungary was created by László Marton (1925–2008) Munkácsy- and Kossuth Prize-winning sculptor in 1972.

Wikipedia: Little Princess statue (EN)

1140 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

530 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 13: Hungarian National Gallery

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The Hungarian National Gallery, was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the works of many nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungarian artists who worked in Paris and other locations in the West. The primary museum for international art in Budapest is the Museum of Fine Arts.

Wikipedia: Hungarian National Gallery (EN), Website, Facebook

314 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: 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 15: 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)

0 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli

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Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli

Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili was an Italian scholar and eminent natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier.

Wikipedia: Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (EN)

576 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: Horváth-kert

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The Horváth Garden Public Park is located in Budapest I. district, Krisztinaváros.

Wikipedia: Horváth-kert (HU)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Krisztinavárosi Havas Boldogasszony plébániatemplom

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The Our Lady of the Snows Parish Church formerly called as the Blood Chapel, also called Krisztina Church, is a Catholic Church located in the Krisztina Square, Krisztinaváros, Várkerület District, Budapest. It is a protected monument.

Wikipedia: Our Lady of the Snows Parish Church (EN), Url Miserend

1587 meters / 19 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)

1441 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 20: Sas-hegyi Látogatóközpont

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Sas-hegyi Látogatóközpont

The Eagle Hill Nature Reserve of Buda is a 30-hectare nature reserve of national importance located in Budapest, on Eagle Hill, within the area of operation of the Danube-Ipoly National Park. It is home to many protected and highly protected animal and plant species, and due to its geological values and special location, it is a real refuge in the middle of the city not only for wildlife, but also for visitors.

Wikipedia: Budai Sas-hegy Természetvédelmi Terület (HU), Website, Facebook

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