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BUDAPEST CITY-CIRCLE SIGHTSEEING (sightseeing by bus) - Hop on hop off
Tickets: 4500 HUF/adult, 3500 HUF/child
Hop on hop off + Cruise (only in summer): 7000 HUF/adult,
Schedule: November-December and March 10:00-16:00, January-February 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, April-October 10:00-18:00
Frequency: April-October 30 minutes, November-March hourly
Stops: József Nádor Square - Dohány Synagogue - Madách Square - Erzsébet Square - Andrássy Avenue - Liszt Ferenc Square / Oktogon - Heroes' Square/City Park - Keleti Railway Station - Astoria - Chain Bridge / Funicular - Castle Hill - Citadel - Váci Street - Parliament
Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Hungarian
BUDAPEST SIGHTSEEING (sightseeing by bus) Hop on hop off
Tickets: 5000 HUF/person
Schedule: November-February 10:00-15:00, March-October 10:00-16:00
Frequency: 30 minutes
Stops: Erzsébet Square - Liszt Ferenc Square / Oktogon - Heroes' Square - Széchenyi Spa - Synagogue - Gellért Hill - Funicular/Clark Adam Square - Castle Hill - Parliament
Language: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
LEGENDA (sightseeing by boat)
Tickets:
Duna Bella (daytime): 2900 HUF/adult, 1950 HUF/child
Duna Legend (evening): 4900 HUF/adult, 2450 HUF/child
Schedule:
Duna Bella - November-February 14:30, March and October 13:30-16:30, April and September
11:00-17:30, May-August 11:00-18:30
Duna Legend - November-February 18:30, March and October 18:30-21:00, April and September 19:30-21:30, May-August 20:15-22:15
Frequency: 30-60 minutes
Duration: 1 hour
Language: 30 languages
RIVERRIDE (sightseeing by bus-boat)
Tickets: 7500 HUF/adult, 5000 HUF/child
Schedule: April-October 9:00, 11:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00,
November-March 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00
Duration: 2 hours
Route: Roosevelt Square - Academy of Sciences - Parliament - St. Stephens Basilica - Opera House - Heroes's Square - Museum of Fine Arts - Splash Point - Chain Bridge - Royal Palace - Citadella/Gellert Hill
Price: 5000-6000 HUF/person
Schedule: April-October, Wednesday-Sunday 11:00
Rates: 1600 HUF/6 hours, 2400 HUF/1 day, 4400 HUF/2 days
RICKSHAW (sightseeing by rickshaw) Hop on hop off
Tickets: 5000 HUF/person/1 day
Schedule: April-October 10:00-18:00, every 5 minutes
Tours: 10:00
Duration: 2,5-3 hours
Rates: 55 EUR/person
Themes: World Heritage Tour, Archeology and Adventure Tour etc.
MÁTYÁS TEMPLOM - MATTHIAS CHURCH
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-17:00, Saturday 9:00-13:00, Sunday 13:00-17:00
Tickets: 700 HUF/adult, 480 HUF/child
Audio guide (Hungarian, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish): 400 HUF
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The Church of Our Lady, better known as Matthias Church was built in the mid-13th century and the last two Hungarian Habsburg kings were crowned here. The interior or the church is decorated with works by two outstanding 19th-century Hungarian painters, Károly Lotz and Bertalan Székely. The wall left of the entrance represents the Renaissance, while the wall across from the entrance has Eastern motifs to represent Ottoman rule. The religious highlight of the interior is the Loreto Chapel, with a statue of the Virgin Mary and Christ made in 1515.
HALÁSZBÁSTYA - FISHERMAN'S BASTION
Opening times: 16 March-April 9:00-19:00, May-15 September 9:00-23:00,
16 September-15 October 9:00-21:00
Tickets: 400 HUF/adult, 200 HUF/child
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The Fisherman's Bastion was designed and built in the place of an old fortress between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek. Its seven towers represent the seven Magyar tribes that settled in the Carpathian Basin in 896. A statue of Stephen I of Hungary (St. Stephen) can be seen in the middle of the bastion courtyard. The Fisherman’s Bastion and the surrounding Buda Castle Quarter has been part of the Unesco World Heritage since 1987.
BUDAVÁRI LABIRINTUS - LABYRINTH OF BUDA CASTLE
Opening hours: 9:30-19:30
Tickets: 2000 HUF/adult, 1500 HUF/child
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The Labyrinth of Buda Castle is situated in the complex of caves and cellars underneath Buda Castle District. The unique calcareous tufa caves of Castle Hill were created as an effect of the hot water springs at the dawn of the history of the Earth. It is mysterious, unfathomable, and apart from the spirit it affects the five senses. Everyday at 6 pm the light goes out in the Labyrinth, so You wander 
with lanterns. Extremely romantic or awesome.
SZIKLAKÓRHÁZ - HOSPITAL IN THE ROCK
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-20:00
(last admission 1 hour before closing)
Tickets: 3600 HUF/adult, 1800 HUF/child
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The former top secret Military Hospital and Nuclear Bunker – under the codename of LOSK 0101/1 – beneath the Buda Castle that is now open to the public. Much more than a mere museum or bunker, this exhibition illustrates in the original surroundings the ambiance of the tragic final days of World War II, and later, the chill and naïveté of the early days of the Cold War.
MAGYAR NEMZETI GALLÉRIA - HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed
Tickets:
Permanent exhibition: 900 HUF/adult, 450 HUF/child
Temporary exhibition: 1900 HUF/adult, 950 HUF/child
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The Hungarian National Gallery has over 100,000 items reflecting Hungarian history from the Hungarian Conquest to the present day. Permanent exhibitions: Medieval and Renaissance Stonework, Gothic Wooden Statues and Panel Paintings, Late Gothic Winged Altarpieces, Renaissance and Baroque Art, the Habsburg Crypt, Nineteenth Century Hungarian Art and Sculpture, and Twentieth Century Hungarian Art and Sculpture. It is located in the Buda Castle on the Buda Hills. An architectural highlight of the gallery is the cupola rising in the centre of the building, from which you can have a 360-degree view of the whole city: the Danube, the sights on the Pest side and the Buda Hills.
KIRÁLYI BOROK HÁZA - HOUSE OF ROYAL WINES AND CELLAR MUSEUM
Opening hours: May-September 12:00-20:00, October-April Tuesday-Sunday 12:00-20:00,
Monday closed
Tickets: 900 HUF/adult, 500 HUF/child
Getting there: Castle bus from Szell Kalman square
The real thing to be admired in the House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum, under the surface are the wine cellars which belonged to the Royal Castle as well as the citizens who lived in the territory of the Renaissance era of Buda. There are many cellar rooms (pálinka room, wine room, champagne room), wine tasting halls, casemates and corridors. Visitors can have a general information on the 6 wine regions, as well as 22 wine districts of Hungary.
MAGYAR OPERAHÁZ - HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA HOUSE
Guide tours: 15:00, 16:00
Tickets: 2800 HUF/adult, 1400 HUF/child
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Tour languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian
Getting there: Metro 1 - Opera
The Hungarian State Opera House is not only the sanctum of music and dance, but also a historical monument. The facade and interior decoration of the Opera House was built in Italian neo-Renaissance style; it can hold 1200 people. Back then, the Opera house had the most modern stage of the era; it was the first time to use an iron-made, water-hydraulic stage. The ceiling of the main entrance is decorated by the paintings of Bertalan Székely, portraying the 9 muses. The paintings of the main Buffet were made by Árpád Feszty.
SZENT ISTVÁN BAZILIKA - ST. STEPHEN'S BASILICA (panorama view)
Opening hours:
Basilica: Monday-Friday 9:00-17:00, Saturday 9:00-13:00, Sunday 13:00-17:00
Cupola: April-May 10;00-16:30, June-August 9:30-18:00, September-October 10:00-16:30
Treasury: April-October 10:00-17:00, November-March 10:00-16:00
Tickets:
Basilica: 400 HUF/person
Cupola: 500 HUF/person
Getting there: Metro 1, 2, 3 - Deak Ferenc Square
St. Stephen's Basilica is dedicated to Hungary's first king, St. Stephen. It is the largest church in Budapest with the capacity of 8500 visitors. It houses Hungary's most sacred treasure, St Stephen's mummified right hand, the Szent Jobb (Holy Right Hand).
DOHÁNY UTCAI ZSINAGÓGA - DOHANY STREET SYNAGOGUES
Opening hours: March-October Monday-Thursday 10:00-17:00, Friday 10:00-15:00, Sunday 10:00-18:00, October-February Sunday-Thursday 10:00-14:00, Saturday closed
Tickets: 1400 HUF/adult, 750 HUF/child
Getting there: Metro 2 - Astoria
The synagogue on Dohany street in Pest is not only the most impressive one in the country, but it's the largest synagogue of Europe, the second largest one in the world.The Great Synagogue is designed like a basilica and includes some striking Byzantine and Moorish elements. The interior is vast and ornate, with two balconies and, unusually, an organ. Its ark contains 25 torah scrolls taken from other synagogues destroyed during the Holocaust. Jewish Heroes' Mausoleum and Temple and the National Jewish Museum is also belong to the synagogue complex.
ORSZÁGHÁZ - HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8:00-18:00, Saturday 8:00-16:00, Sunday 8:00-14:00
Free admission for EU citizens upon proof of nationality.
Tickets (foreign citizens): 3200 HUF/adult, 1600 HUF/child
Getting there: Metro 2 - Kossuth tér
The Hungarian Parliament Building is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the bank of the Danube, in Budapest. It is currently the largest building in Hungary, and the second largest Parliament in Europe. When entering the Parliament, visitors can walk up great ornamental stairs, see frescoes on the ceiling and pass by the bust of the creator, Imre Steindl, in a wall niche. One of the famous parts of the building is the hexadecagonal (sixteen-sided) central hall, with huge chambers adjoining it: the Lower House and the Upper House.
TERROR HÁZA - HOUSE OF TERROR MUSEUM
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed
(last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Tickets: 1800 HUF/adult, 900 HUF/child
Temporary exhibition: 800 HUF/person
Audio guide (Hungarian, German, English): 1300 HUF
Getting there: Metro 1 - Vörösmarty utca
The House of Terror Museum - the only one of its kind - is a monument to the memory of those held captive, tortured and killed in this building. The Museum, while presenting the horrors in a tangible way, also intends to make people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not in vain. Ultimately, the fight against the two cruellest systems of the 20th century ended with the victory of the forces of freedom and independence.
SZÉPMÅ°VÉSZETI MÚZEUM - MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:30, Monday closed
(last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Tickets: 1600 HUF/adult, 800 HUF/child
Temporary exhibition: 1600-3200 HUF/person
Audio guide (Hungarian, English): 1000 HUF
Getting there: Metro 1 - HÅ‘sök tere
Built in 1906, the museum’s core material derives from the Eszterházy’s art collection, donated to the state in the 1870-s. The permanent exhibitions boast Italian, Egyptian, Roman, Spanish and Greek exhibits, of which the Italian is said to be the most comprehensive (with a survey of the various schools from the 12th to the 18th centuries). The spanish collection is simply the second largest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain, including no fewer than 7 masterpieces by El Greco. Recently having shown the works of Picasso, Van Gogh and Hundertwasser, the huge Neo-Classical building of the Museum of Fine Arts dominates not only Heroes’ Square, but Budapest’s cultural life.
One of the very special things about Budapest is the prevalence of thermal springs right in the centre of the city. There are 118 springs and boreholes altogether, supplying the city’s spas and baths with 15.4 million gallons of water daily ranging in temperature from 21°C to 78°C.
Most popular baths:
Széchenyi Baths
Király Thermal Baths
Rudas Medicinal Baths
Gellért Baths
Opening hours: 10:00 until dark
Tickets: 1500 HUF/adult, 1000 HUF/child
Getting there: Bus Nr. 150
Displayed in the Park are 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989, including allegorical monuments of "Hungarian-Soviet Friendship" and "Liberation", as well as statues of famous personalities from the labour movement, soldiers of the Red Army and other gigantic pieces: Lenin, Marx, Engels, Dimitrov, Captain Ostapenko, Béla Kun and other "heroes" of the communist world. A favourite with visitors is the Liberation Army Soldier. A hammer-and-sickle flag in its hand and a cartridge-disc machine pistol hanging in its neck make the statue complete. This 6-meter tall statue of the evil-eyed Soviet soldier once stood on the top of Gellért Hill in central Budapest, well-seen from every direction.
FÖLDALATTI VASÚTI MÚZEUM - UNDERGROUND MUSEUM
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 300 HUF/adult, 250 HUF/child
Getting there: Metro 1, 2, 3 - Deák tér
The Underground Museum occupies a tunnel dug in 1896 for the then first Underground railroad in continental Europe. Various exhibits, especially some early Art Nouveau-style carriages, illustrate the development of this mass transport undertaking which was to prove so important for the Hungarian capital.
VASÚTTÖRTÉNETI PARK - RAILWAY MUSEUM
Opening hours: 15-31 March and November-18 December Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-15:00, April-October Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 950 HUF/adult, 300 HUF/child
Activities:
Engine driving - 1000 HUF/person
Hand-powered cart - 300 HUF/alkalom/cart
Ride on the rail-cycle - 100 HUF/person
Ride on the horse tram - 100 HUF/person
Getting there: Bus Nr. 30 or 120
After many months of effort, Europe's first interactive railway museum opened on 2000, displaying over a hundred railway vehicles and equipment of varying ages on a site of over 70,000 square metres. The fleet is comprised of fifty engines, twelve operational and thirty-eight cosmetically restored, plus a wide range of rolling stock: railcars, self-powered rail cars and hand-carts, inspection cars, steam cranes, snow ploughs and other curiosities. The gem of the vintage fleet is the elegant teak dining car built for the Orient Express in 1912. From April to October (10:20, 11:20, 13:20), a vintage diesel shuttle train runs between Budapest's Nyugati Station and the museum , adding more fun to the visit and ensuring easy access.
SZEMLÅHEGYI BARLANG - SZEMLÅHEGY CAVE
Opening hours: Wednesday-Monday 10:00-16:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 850 HUF/adult, 625 HUF/child
Duration: 40 minutes
Getting there: Bus Nr. 29
The cave, currently explored in a length of 2200 ms, and placed under increased protection, is one of the most valuable natural treasures of Budapest. It contains several spacious passages.
It offers a variety of spectacular forms, and is richly ornamented with mineral precipitations.
Visitors can tour about the hiking route of about 250 meters on comfortable concrete sidewalks and stairs, and can get familiarised with the pisolite precipitations and gypsum crystals, counting almost unparalleled in Europe, abundantly covering the walls, by an effect illumination, which enhances and makes perceivable the beauty of the images and formations of the cave passages.
Getting there: HÉV suburban railway from Batthyány tér station to Szentendre - 20 km, 40 minutes - 640 HUF return
SZABADTÉRI NÉPRAJZI MÚZEUM (SKANZEN) - HUNGARIAN OPEN-AIR MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY (SKANSEN)
Opening hours: April-October Tuesday-Sunday 9:00-16:00, Monday closed
Tickets: 1200 HUF/adult, 600 HUF/child
Getting there: Bus Nr. 7 from HÉV station
Hungary’s history comes alive at the Hungarian Open-Air Museum of Ethnography (commonly known as Skansen). Most of the outdoor museum’s land has been divided into nine different “landscape units” (the Upper Tisza Region, a Highland Market Town, Northern Hungary, the Central Tisza Region, the Great Hungarian Plain, Southern Transdanubia, the Balaton Uplands, Western Transdanubia and Kisalföld). Within each of these units, houses, farm buildings, stores, schools, churches and other structures are arranged in traditional patterns that follow the customs of the particular region.
SZAMOS MARCIPÁN MÚZEUM - SZAMOS MARZIPAN MUSEUM
Opening hours: April-October 9:00-19:00, November-March 10:00-18:00
Ticket: 300 HUF/person
The Szamos Marzipan Museum is Hungary's first marzipan museum. The exhibition displays the art of marzipan making, including some masterpieces of confectionery, such as the 160 centimetre-tall model of the Parliament building. The museum is also dedicated to the life work of two outstanding Hungarian confectioners, Mátyás Szamos and Károly Szabó. Among the marzipan figures on display there are figures of famous personalities, artistically decorated wedding cakes, cartoon figures, and other sweet celebrities.
Getting there: Train from Nyugati Railway station to Esztergom - 55 km, 1 hour 20 perc -
2200 HUF return
ESZTERGOMI BAZILIKA - BASILICA OF ESZTERGOM
Opening hours:
Basilica: March 8:00-17:00, April-October 8:00-18:00, November-February 8:00-16:00
Cupola (panoramic view, only in good weather condition): April-October 8:00-16:30
Tickets:
Free admission to Cathedral.
Cupola: 250 HUF/person
Getting there: Vértes Volán bus (Nr. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7) from the train station
Getting there: HÉV suburban railway from Örs vezér tér station to GödöllÅ‘ - 30 km, 50 minutes -
1100 HUF return
GÖDÖLLÅI KIRÁLYI KASTÉLY - GÖDÖLLÅ ROYAL PALACE
Opening hours: April-October 10:00-18:00, November-March 10:00-17:00
(last admission 1 hour before closing)
Tickets: 1800 HUF/adult, 900 HUF/child
Getting there: walking from the train station
The GödöllÅ‘ Royal Palace has a double U shape, and is surrounded by an enormous park. The building underwent several enlargements and modifications during the 18th century, its present shape was established in the time of the third generation of the Grassalkovich family. By then the building had 8 wings, and - besides the residential part - it contained a church, a theatre, a riding-hall, a hothouse, a greenhouse for flowers and an orangery.
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