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Heroes square
Heroes' Square is one of the grandest public spaces in Budapest, a vast plaza at the end of Andrassy Avenue that celebrates 1,000 years of Hungarian history. The square was built between 1896 and 1906 to commemorate the…
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Margaret Bridge
Margaret Bridge is Budapest's second permanent bridge across the Danube, and it carries one of the city's most romantic origin stories. Designed by French engineer Ernest Gouin and built between 1872 and 1876, the bridge…
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Parliament Building
The Hungarian Parliament Building is one of Europe's most jaw-dropping architectural achievements, and the story behind it is just as dramatic as its facade. Commissioned in 1885 after an international design competition…
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St Stephen Basilica
St. Stephen's Basilica is not just one of Budapest's most beautiful buildings but also one of its most dramatic construction stories. Work began in 1851, but in 1858 the dome catastrophically collapsed, forcing demolitio…
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Dohány Street Synagogue
The Dohany Street Synagogue holds the distinction of being the largest synagogue in Europe and one of the largest in the world, with seating for nearly 3,000 worshippers. Built between 1854 and 1859 by architect Ludwig F…
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Tree of Life Memorial and Temple of Heroes
The Tree of Life Memorial stands in the rear courtyard of the Dohany Street Synagogue complex as one of Budapest's most emotionally powerful monuments. Created by sculptor Imre Varga in 1991, the silver-colored metal wee…
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Kazinczy Street Synagogue
The Kazinczy Street Synagogue is one of Budapest's best-kept architectural secrets, tucked away at 29-31 Kazinczy Street in the heart of the Jewish Quarter. Completed in 1913, this Orthodox synagogue was designed by the …
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Vajdahunyad Castle
Vajdahunyad Castle is proof that the best things sometimes start as temporary ideas. Originally built from wood and cardboard for Hungary's 1896 Millennium Celebrations, this fairy-tale castle was meant to showcase a tho…
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Statue of Anonymous
The Statue of Anonymous is one of Budapest's most mysterious and beloved monuments, honoring a chronicler whose name nobody knows. This hooded bronze figure, created by sculptor Miklos Ligeti in 1903, depicts an unknown …
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House of Terrors
The House of Terrors at Andrassy Avenue 60 is not just a museum about history; it is history. This building served as the actual headquarters of Hungary's Arrow Cross Nazi Party during World War II and later became the b…
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Budapest City Park (Városliget)
Budapest City Park, known locally as Varosliget, claims the remarkable distinction of being one of the world's first public parks. The story begins in 1751 when Pest's mayor Gabor Szanto initiated a tree plantation on th…
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Nyugati Train Station
Nyugati Train Station is living proof that train stations can be works of art. Designed by August de Serres and built by none other than the Eiffel Company (yes, the same firm behind the Eiffel Tower), the station opened…
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Rumbach Street Synagogue
The Rumbach Street Synagogue is a hidden masterpiece designed by a 27-year-old Otto Wagner, who would later become one of the founding figures of the Secessionist movement that transformed European architecture. Wagner w…
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Queen Elisabeth Statue
The Queen Elisabeth Statue tells one of Budapest's most dramatic tales of devotion, politics, and survival. It honors Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known affectionately as "Sisi," who was born in 1837 into Bavaria's roya…
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Liberty Square (Szabadság tér)
Liberty Square sits on ground that once held Ujepulet, a massive military barracks built by the Austrians in 1786 that served as a powerful symbol of Habsburg control over Hungary. When the barracks were demolished in th…
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Madách Színház
The Madách Színház (Madách Theatre) is a theatre at Erzsébet körút 29-33 in Budapest, Hungary, named after the playwright Imre Madách. The building stands on the Grand Boulevard in Pest and was a variety hall at the turn…
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New York Café
The New York Café in Budapest was built as the ground floor of an insurance palace and is decorated to a degree that borders on absurd, with gilding, marble columns and frescoed ceilings. It was once the haunt of the cit…
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Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum is the country's national museum of history, housed in a large neoclassical building on Múzeum körút in Budapest. It grew out of a private donation made in 1802 and is closely tied to the st…
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Chapel of Saint Roch
The Chapel of Saint Roch (Szent Rókus-kápolna) is a small Baroque chapel on Gyulai Pál utca in Budapest's eighth district, next to the Rókus Hospital. It dates from the early 18th century and was built after a plague epi…
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Budavárí Labirintus
The Buda Castle Labyrinth is a run of caves and passages under the castle hill in Budapest, formed by hot springs and later used as cellars and shelters. It is lit low enough to be genuinely atmospheric.
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Church of Saint Mary Magdalene
The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is a ruined medieval church on Kapisztrán tér in the Buda Castle District of Budapest. Little of it survives today beyond a Gothic tower and the outlines of the nave, which makes it one…
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Európa Liget
Európa Liget (Europe Grove) is a small public green space in the first district of Budapest, in the Buda Castle area on the Buda side of the Danube. It is an easy stop on a walk around Castle Hill, where cobbled streets,…
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Japanese Garden, Margaret Island
The Japanese Garden on Margaret Island is a small, quiet corner of the island park in the middle of the Danube in Budapest. It is known for its ponds, stone lanterns and Asian-style planting, which feel very different fr…
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Musical Fountain, Margaret Island
The Musical Fountain on Margaret Island in Budapest is a covered well that plays music, built in 1935-36 as a replica of a celebrated well from Transylvania. It is one of the island's best-loved small landmarks, a quirky…
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Ghosts of Budapest: A Haunting Adventure
108 min · DE · EN · FR · RO · PL · HU
Places on this quest: Nyugati Train Station · Budapest City Park (Városliget)
Budapest Highlights: The Supernatural Detective
80 min · EN · PL · DE · RO · HU · ES · IT
Places on this quest: Liberty Square (Szabadság tér) · Queen Elisabeth Statue
Jewish Quarter Highlights of Budapest: Detective Case
126 min · EN
Places on this quest: Rumbach Street Synagogue · Kazinczy Street Synagogue
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