The vast aquarium complex called Tropicarium is apparently the largest in Central Europe. The place prides itself on its local specimens 鈥 though there鈥檚 an 11m-long 'shark zoo' (c谩p谩s 谩llatkert) containing all manner of beasties. Shark-feeding time is between 3pm and 4pm on Thursday.
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Castle Hill is a kilometre-long limestone plateau towering 170m above the Danube. It contains some of Budapest鈥檚 most important medieval monuments and鈥
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Housed in a grand Renaissance-style building and once again opened after three years' renovations in late 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts is home to the鈥
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The Castle Museum, part of the multibranched Budapest History Museum, explores the city's 2000-year history over four floors. Restored palace rooms dating鈥
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The 13th-century citadel looms over Visegr谩d atop a 333m-high hill and is surrounded by moats hewn from solid rock. The real highlight is simply walking鈥
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Budapest's stunning Great Synagogue is the world's largest Jewish house of worship outside New York City. Built in 1859, the synagogue has both Romantic鈥
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Home to more than 40 statues, busts and plaques of Lenin, Marx, B茅la Kun and others whose likenesses have ended up on trash heaps elsewhere, Memento Park,鈥
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Budapest鈥檚 neoclassical cathedral is the most sacred Catholic church in all of Hungary and contains its most revered relic: the mummified right hand of鈥
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The headquarters of the dreaded 脕VH secret police houses the disturbing House of Terror, focusing on the crimes and atrocities of Hungary's fascist and鈥
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Home to more than 40 statues, busts and plaques of Lenin, Marx, B茅la Kun and others whose likenesses have ended up on trash heaps elsewhere, Memento Park,鈥
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Housed in the huge Sz谩raz-Rudny谩nszky baroque mansion in deepest south Buda, this branch of the Museum of Applied Arts traces the development of European鈥
3. Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art
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Housed in the architecturally controversial Palace of Arts just north of R谩k贸czi Bridge, the Ludwig Museum holds Hungary鈥檚 most important collection of鈥
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Hard by the Danube in Ferencv谩ros, the National Theatre (2002) remains controversial for its architecture. Designed by M谩ria Sikl贸s, it is supposedly 鈥
5. Zwack Museum & Visitors' Centre
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Unicum, the thick medicinal-tasting aperitif made from 40 herbs and spices, is as bitter as a loser鈥檚 tears and a favourite drink in Hungary. To delve鈥
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'Wolf's Meadow' Cemetery in the Buda Hills is the place where composer B茅la Bart贸k is seeing out eternity, along with conductor Georg Solti, who avoided鈥
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The former Swedish Embassy on Gell茅rt Hill bears a plaque attesting to the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and businessman who, along with鈥
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This chapel is on a small hill directly opposite (north of) the landmark Danubius Hotel Gell茅rt and baths. It was built into a cave in 1926 and was the鈥