Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Budapest, Hungary

The Lutheran Church of Fasor stands in district VII of Budapest, on the corner of Városligeti fasor and Bajza street. The most ornate Protestant church of the capital, after the Lutheran church on Deák Square, is the second largest Lutheran church in Budapest. It forms one block with the building of the Lutheran High School in Fasor.

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The György Ráth Villa is a branch institution of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest VI. district. From 14 September 2018, the villa reopened its doors with a permanent exhibition entitled Our Art Nouveau, which presents the most significant pieces of the Art Nouveau collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and makes them available to the public during the reconstruction works of the main building of the Museum of Applied Arts, at the same time commemorating György Ráth, the first director of the museum.

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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.

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Kodály Zoltán Memorial Museum and Archives

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Budapest World Heritage sites are the view of the Danube bank, the Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue.

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It is located in the VI. district of Liszt Ferenc Square Budapest.

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Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being of Jewish background, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.

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Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.

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Endre Ady was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century, he was noted for his steadfast belief in social progress and development and for his poetry's exploration of fundamental questions of the modern European experience: love, temporality, faith, individuality, and patriotism.

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The Radnóti Miklós Theatre is one of the theatres of Budapest.

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The Budapest Operetta Theatre is a musical theatre in Budapest.

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Batthyány's sanctuary lamp is a national monument, located at the corner of Báthory Street and Hold Street in Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary. It sits on the former location of the courtyard of the New Building, where Count Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary, was executed on 6th October 1849.

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Liberty Square is a public square located in the Lipótváros neighborhood of Budapest, Hungary.

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The Muppet Show is a British-American variety sketch comedy television series created by Jim Henson and starring the Muppets. The series originated as two pilot episodes produced by Henson for ABC in 1974 and 1975. While neither episode was moved forward as a series and other networks in the United States rejected Henson's proposals, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet Show for the British station ATV. Five seasons, totalling 120 episodes, were broadcast on ATV and other ITV franchises in the United Kingdom and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1976 to 1981. The programme was produced and recorded at the ATV Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

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The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

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Salamon Ferenc (1825-1892) was a historian, translator, and literary critic known for his writings on Ottoman Hungary.

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Gábor Szarvas is a linguist, the creator of Hungarian language cultivation.

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The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Pentangle Puzzles in the UK in 1978, and then by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer. The cube was released internationally in 1980 and became one of the most recognized icons in popular culture. It won the 1980 German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle. As of January 2024, around 500 million cubes had been sold worldwide, making it the world's bestselling puzzle game and bestselling toy. The Rubik's Cube was inducted into the US National Toy Hall of Fame in 2014.

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The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is one of the best known monuments in Budapest, located near the Buda Castle, in the 1st district of Budapest. It is one of the most important tourist attractions due to the unique panorama of Budapest from the Neo-Romanesque lookout terraces. The Fishermen's Bastion's main façade, parallel to the Danube, is approximately 140 meters long, of which the southern aisle is about 40 meters long, the north is 65 meters long, and the ornate central parapet is 35 meters long. Its seven high-pitched stone towers symbolize the seven chieftains of the Hungarians who founded Hungary in 895.

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The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle, more commonly known as the Matthias Church, more rarely the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Catholic church located in the Holy Trinity Square, Budapest, Hungary, in front of the Fisherman's Bastion at the heart of Buda's Castle District. According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015, although few references exist. The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was extensively restored in the late 19th century. It was the second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom.

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The Honvéd statue is a memorial place erected in honor of the freedom fighters who occupied Buda Castle in 1849.

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The Golden Eagle Pharmacy was the first pharmacy in Buda, after the expulsion of the Turks, it was founded in 1687 in today's house No. 1-2 Ornamental Square by Ferenc Ignác Bösinger. Between 1687 and 1696 the pharmacy moved to 6 Ornamental Square. Bösinger also opened a branch pharmacy in Watertown, which later became known as the Black Bear Pharmacy.

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Count András Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian nobleman and Field Marshal of the Imperial Army. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774, and is the father of Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak. He is famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the Seven Years' War.

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Tamás Cseh was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.

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Settlements existed on the territory of today's Budapest already in ancient times, the territory of which, after their disappearance, from the Árpád era onwards, was shared not only by the three cities, Óbuda, Buda and Pest, but also by villages, sometimes quite close to the city walls. Their inhabitants are serfs, royal officials and other court people. All of these settlements were either merged into larger, later villages, which later became Budapest districts in the 1950 spatial planning, or were abandoned early, during the Tatar invasion or later during the Turkish occupation.

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The National Museum and Institute of Theatre History (OSZMI) is a state-founded cultural institution, currently maintained by the Foundation for Theatre and Film Arts. Its building is located in the first district of Budapest, at Krisztina körút 57. As a museum, it performs public collection tasks, and as a scientific institute, its important tasks include supporting the theatre profession and researchers dealing with Hungarian theatre history.

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The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Snows in Krisztinaváros is a Roman Catholic church in Budapest I. district, on Krisztina Square. It is protected as a monument. Local names are Krisztina Square Church, Krisztina Church or Lower Krisztina.

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

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