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Budapest see + do
Some of the best things to see and do in Budapest—walking around, admiring the city's architecture and its vibrant street life—don't take much "doing" at all. By all means, take the long stroll down Pest's tree-lined Andrássy, the local version of the Champs-Elysées, past the opera, musical, and puppet theaters, as well as about a billion cafés, decadent fin de siècle town houses, and plush hotels. You'll know when you reach the end: The giant statuary palisade at Heroes' Square practically orders you to stop. The marble-laden Museum of Fine Arts, nearby, is a good place to cool off.
The first permanent bridge across the Danube, unveiled in 1849, this city icon was designed by Englishman William Tierney Clark and Scottish engineer Adam Clark...more
Just after the fall of communism, some genius rounded up all the giant-scale (and we do mean large) statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels and set them up as a...more
This large museum, located right where Andrássy hits City Park (Városliget), picks up where the Hungarian National Gallery leaves off. It houses...more
Missing Barnes & Noble? (Actually, there is one here, but never mind.) Pining for your book group? Here, on the site of a famous literary café, is...more
This art collection is the raison d'être for several sections of the Royal Palace located at the top of Castle Hill. Beginning with domestic sculptures...more
Often mundane and occasionally outstanding, after 20 years the Budapest Grand Prix remains the most significant motor-sport event in the region. It's held every...more
By no means appreciated by all when it opened, partly due to the word "TERROR" writ huge on the building's facade, this museum sets out to expose the ways and...more
The quintessential city spa is fed by Gellért Hill's mineral hot springs, flush with calcium, magnesium, hydrocarbonate, alkali, chloride, sulfate, and...more
Fronted by a vast statue of Liszt overlooking a pedestrian street filled with café tables, this remarkable Art Nouveau building anchors Liszt Ferenc...more
This great example of the genre, not too picked over by eBay sellers and filled with buckets of Communist memorabilia, is the largest flea market in Europe...more
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