Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Budapest, Hungary

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 158 m
Descend 157 m

Experience Budapest in Hungary in a whole new way with our 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: Erkel Theatre

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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.

Wikipedia: Erkel Theatre (EN)

616 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Baross Gábor

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Baross Gábor

Noble Gábor Baross de Bellus was a Hungarian statesman in Hungarian parliament, was born at Barossháza now Pružina near Trencsén. He was for a time one of the professors there under Cardinal Kolos Vaszary. After acquiring considerable local reputation as chief notary of his county, he entered parliament in 1875, where he apparently gained a nickname "Slovak blackman", due to his darker tanned complexity. He at once attached himself to Kálmán Tisza and remained faithful to his chief even after the Bosnian occupation had alienated so many of the supporters of the prime minister.

Wikipedia: Gábor Baross (EN), Website

570 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Istenszülő Oltalma templom

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The Church of the Protection of the Mother of God, colloquially known as the Greek Catholic Church of Rózsa Square – to be distinguished from the large Roman Catholic church in its immediate vicinity – is a former Roman Catholic, today Greek Catholic church and parish located in the VII. district of Budapest.

Wikipedia: Istenszülő oltalma templom (Rózsák tere) (HU), Url Miserend

1004 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: 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)

1073 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 5: Fészek Artists’ Club

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Fészek Artists’ ClubPasztilla aka Attila Terbócs / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Fészek Art Club is a club of the Budapest art world founded in 1901, today it is a non-profit, nationwide association where literary, musical, theatre, film and fine arts events are held that can be visited by anyone. For informal social life, a restaurant and a restaurant-wine bar are also at guests' disposal.

Wikipedia: Fészek Művészklub (HU)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Kéthly Anna tér

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Kéthly Anna tér Attila Terbócs / CC BY 2.5

Kethly Anna Square is a new square in Budapest VII. district, Erzsébetváros. It got its name in 2001. The square was designed by Katalin Baraczka.

Wikipedia: Kéthly Anna tér (HU)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Klauzál tér

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The Klauzál tér was the largest square in the former Jewish quarter of Budapest, Hungary. Located in the seventh district, it was the heart of the city's old Jewish quarter. Nowadays, this area is also known as the party district in Hungarian bulinegyed, because of its many pubs nearby.

Wikipedia: Klauzál tér (Budapest) (EN)

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Sász-Chevra Zsinagóga

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Sász-Chevra ZsinagógaPasztilla aka Attila Terbócs / CC BY-SA 3.0

Kazinczy Street Synagogue is an Art Nouveau orthodox synagogue built between 1912 and 1913 Budapest VII. district, 29-31 Kazinczy Street number. It is one of the most characteristic works of Hungarian synagogue architecture before the First World War.

Wikipedia: Kazinczy Street Synagogue, Budapest (EN)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Hősök zsinagógája

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The Temple of Heroes or Synagogue of Heroes is a Jewish religious building located in the courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue. Today it is an inseparable part of the building complex.

Wikipedia: Hősök temploma (Budapest) (HU)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

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The Hungarian Jewish Museum is a thematic museum located in the museum wing next to the Dohany Street Synagogue building, which presents artifacts of Hungarian Jewish culture and history. It is owned and managed by MAZSIHISZ, one of Central Europe's outstanding Judaica collections.

Wikipedia: Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár (HU), Website

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Dohány Street Synagogue

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Dohány Street 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

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Belvárosi Színház

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It is one of the Budapest inclusive theatres of the Downtown Theatre, located on Károly boulevard, which opened its doors in 2004. Apart from his name, he has no connection with Artúr Bárdos's company operating under this name between 1917 and 1951.

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

259 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 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 14: IV. Károly király

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IV. Károly király

Charles I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and 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 15: 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 16: 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 17: 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)

500 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Pesti Színház

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The Pest Theatre is the chamber theatre of the Vígtheatre in Budapest, the venue located in district V has a capacity of 538 spectators.

Wikipedia: Pesti Színház (HU)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Belvárosi Szent Anna-plébániatemplom

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The St. Anne's Church in the City Centre, also known as Servita Church, is located in Budapest, in the city center, on Szervita Square. Until the end of World War II, it operated under the administration of the Servite order, today it belongs to the Downtown Assumption Parish. The church is a category I monument under Act LIV of 1997 under trunk number 15394.

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

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Belvárosi Ferences templom

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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

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Nereidák kútja

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The Fountain of the Nereids or the Fountain of the Nayads is a group of statues depicting two female figures with dolphins and shells on their pedestals in Ferenciek Square in District V of Budapest.

Wikipedia: Nereidák kútja (HU)

78 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Katona József Színház Kamra

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Katona József Színház Kamra 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)

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Károlyi kert

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The Károlyi Garden public park in Budapest V. district. It is the oldest preserved garden in this function of the city centre and the best documented among the few palace gardens in Hungary. The garden is bordered by Ferenczy István Street to the north, Magyar Street to the east, Henszlmann Imre Street to the south and Károlyi Palace to the west. Its area has remained unchanged since the end of the 17th century at 7625 m².

Wikipedia: Károlyi-kert (HU)

442 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Ady Endre Emlékmúzeum

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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

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: The Main Parish Church of the Assumption in the centre of Budapest

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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

47 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Contra-Aquincum

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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.

Wikipedia: Contra-Aquincum (HU)

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Istenszülő elhunyta Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház

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Istenszülő elhunyta Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház

The Assumption Cathedral of the Blessed Mother of God is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Budapest, district V. It is part of the World Heritage View along the Danube.

Wikipedia: Istenszülő elhunyta Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház (Budapest) (HU), Website

1042 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 28: Tabáni Alexandriai Szent Katalin plébániatemplom

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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

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Esperanto Park

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The Esperanto Park (Budapest) does not officially exist, yet many people call it Esperanto Park!

Wikipedia: Eszperantó Park (Budapest) (HU)

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