Built in 1909, P谩risi Udvar is a stunning, ornately decorated piece of Eclectic architecture, with Moorish, Gothic and art nouveau elements. It was for decades a delightful but down-at-heel shopping arcade but is currently receiving a top-to-bottom renovation and will reopen as a 130-room Hyatt hotel some time in 2019.
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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 largest church in Hungary sits on Castle Hill, and its 72m-high central dome can be seen for many kilometres around. The building of the present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 capital鈥檚 premier pedestrian shopping street is crammed for the most part with chain stores, touristy restaurants, ripoff bars and a smattering of鈥
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The four-storey Thonet House is an art nouveau masterpiece designed and built by 脰d枚n Lechner in 1890.
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A Romanesque church was first built on the eastern side of M谩rcius 15 t茅r in the 12th century, within a Roman fortress. The present church was rebuilt in鈥
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Under Plexiglas in V M谩rcius 15 t茅r you'll find the remains of a Roman fortress 鈥 an outpost of the Roman town of Aquincum 鈥 dating back to the 3rd鈥
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The Philanthia flower shop sells all sorts of gift items but you've come to admire the original (and very rare) art nouveau interior designed by master鈥
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Designed by Henrik B枚hm and 脕rmin Heged疟s in 1906, 'Turkish Bank' House is worth a look. It has an almost totally glass-covered facade, and in the upper鈥
7. Pet艖fi Museum of Literature
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Just north of Egyetem t茅r and housed in the sumptuous neoclassical K谩roly Palace (K谩rolyi Palota), dating from 1840, this museum is devoted to S谩ndor鈥
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A pleasant place to take a breather, this flowered-filled garden was built for the K谩roly Palace, which now houses the Pet艖fi Museum of Literature鈥