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Budapest Essentials
Castle Hill & the Danube
Budapest Essentials
Independent stories at familiar locations around Castle Hill and the Danube.
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01
The country’s heaviest bell
Free to read · collect it on site
02
Holocaust
Each shoe feels individual, but the memorial is collective.
03
War and dictatorship
One address served fascist and communist security bodies.
04
Transport
Budapest put an electric railway under its avenue in 1896.
05
Architecture
The castle began as a national architecture collage.
06
Architecture
A Gothic-looking roof used a new 1880s ceramic.
07
Fisherman’s Bastion is a terrace, not a medieval fort
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Communist Budapest
For decades a wall hid a church inside the hill.
09
Communist Budapest
A liberation monument survived by losing part of its cast.
10
Public art
The birthday monument changes identity with each viewer.
11
Ottoman Buda
A poet-soldier’s death legend is tied to conquest day.
12
Legend versus reality
A famous revolutionary scene probably never happened.
13
Jewish Budapest
A deep block became a chain of buildings.
14
Hungarian Parliament
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Jewish Quarter and Broadway
It is the largest synagogue in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
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Jewish Quarter and Broadway
The auditorium's great chandelier weighs more than three tonnes.
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City Park and Andrássy Avenue
Seven mounted chieftains stand at the base of the Millennium Monument.
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City Park and Andrássy Avenue
It is one of Europe's largest thermal bath complexes.
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Buda Castle
The funicular first opened in 1870, was destroyed in World War II and reopened in 1986.
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Buda Castle
Royal residences have occupied Castle Hill since the Middle Ages, although the palace has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt.
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Buda Hills and Gellért
Emperor Franz Joseph ceremonially completed the bridge with its final silver rivet.
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Buda Hills and Gellért
The Art Nouveau bath complex introduced an early wave pool in 1927.
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South Pest
Budapest's largest market hall opened in 1897 beneath a colourful Zsolnay-tiled roof.