Monuments and statues in Budapest

Historic building, Parliament

The Hungarian Parliament building is definitely one of the most beautiful and impressive parliament buildings in the world and is a clear landmark of Budapest and a symbol of Hungary. [btn "Book the cheapest accommodation in Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-parlament] An impressive building on the banks of the Danube The Parliament Building, called Országház in Hungarian, is a monumental…

Castle

The most prominent landmark of the former city of Buda, now part of Budapest, is Buda Castle, sometimes referred to as the Royal Castle. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-budinsky-hrad] The Buda Castle, called Budai Vár in Hungarian, is the central structure of Budapest's Castle Hill and, like Prague Castle, is actually an entire complex of palaces and a medieval…

Lookout, Historic building

Half of the visitors admire the Fisherman's Bastion (Halászbástya) and the other half hate it. It is built in a combination of Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic style with a total of 7 towers connected by walkways. [btn "Book a hotel in central Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-rybarska-basta] For many, it's just an over-decorated kitsch building that, although it looks very old, was actually…

Temple

The Church of the Assumption is one of the most important monuments of Budapest and a symbol of the whole of Hungary. Among the locals, the church is known as Mátyás Temple , although this name did not appear until the 19th century. The temple is located in the old Buda area near Buda Castle. [btn "The 10 cheapest hotels in Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-matyasuv-chram] History and…

Basilica

The Basilica is located in the very heart of the city and is one of the most important monuments in the whole of Hungary, as it houses the nation's most revered relics of the mummified hand of King Saint Stephen. But the interior itself is also beautiful, with its giant organ, which is decorated with paintings and statues. [btn "Book a hotel in central Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest…

Archaeological site

The Roman city of Aquincum stood on the territory of today's Budapest at the end of the 1st century AD. Today, it is the best-preserved civilian Roman settlement in Hungary, with a covered museum and an open-air archaeological park. [btn "The 10 cheapest hotels in Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-aquincum] Roman Aquincum's period of greatest glory was roughly between 124 and 200 AD, when…

Synagogue

The largest Jewish temple in Europe, built in the Moorish style with a typical copper dome, is one of the most striking and important buildings in Budapest. It can accommodate 3,000 worshippers, making it the second largest synagogue in the world (after the synagogue in New York). This conservative (not Orthodox) synagogue was built in 1859 to a design by Viennese architect Ludwig Förster and has elements of both Romanesque and Moorish…

Castle

In the popular Városliget Park near Heroes' Square and Szćhenyi Spa, the small Vajdahunyad Castle on the shore of an artificial pond attracts tourists and locals alike. It is a much smaller replica of the famous Romanian castle Corvín (Hunyad), built in 1896 originally as a wooden backdrop for the Millennium Exhibition, which was held to commemorate 1 000 years since the settlement of the Hungarian basin. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Budapest"…

Statue

The memorial called the Shoes on the banks of the Danube is an interesting and powerful reminder of the rampage of the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross Party during the Second World War. [btn "The 10 best hotels in Budapest" https://www.booking.com/city/hu/budapest.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-budapest-boty-dunaj] It was this militant Nazi party that executed up to 3,500 Hungarian Jews from the Budapest ghetto on the banks of the Danube in late…