BUDAPEST
Welcome to Budapest
Thermal Waters, Danube Grandeur
Budapest: Thermal Springs, Empire and Reinvention
Attractions
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Hungarian Parliament
Europe's third-largest legislative building, a Gothic Revival riverfront landmark guarding the thousand-year-old Crown of St Stephen beneath its gilded central dome.
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Europe's largest thermal bathing complex, an opulent neo-baroque palace of outdoor and indoor pools fed by hot springs at the edge of City Park.
Buda Castle
The sprawling royal palace crowning Castle Hill, rebuilt after Ottoman siege and wartime ruin, now home to the Hungarian National Gallery and sweeping views over the Danube.
Food & Dining
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New York Café
Budapest's most opulent historic café, an 1894 Italian Renaissance fantasy of gold leaf, frescoes and marble columns once favoured by the city's writers and poets.
Gerbeaud
Budapest's most famous confectionery, an 1858 institution on Vörösmarty tér serving layered Gerbeaud slices and cakes in ornate 19th-century salons.
Kőleves Vendéglő
A relaxed Jewish Quarter neighbourhood restaurant serving generous, unfussy Hungarian and Jewish-Hungarian home cooking around a leafy courtyard garden.
Shop
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Herend Porcelain
Hungary's royal-warrant porcelain house since 1826, its flagship boutique selling hand-painted tableware and figurines finished with 19th-century techniques.
Szamos Marzipan
A family confectionery since 1935, its Váci utca flagship selling hand-modelled marzipan figurines, fruit shapes and filled chocolates made in the workshop upstairs.
Massolit Books & Café
A rambling secondhand and new English-language bookshop across a Jewish Quarter apartment, hub of Budapest's expat and literary community with a café tucked among the shelves.
Top Highlights
Hungarian Parliament
Europe's third-largest legislative building, a Gothic Revival riverfront landmark guarding the thousand-year-old Crown of St Stephen beneath its gilded central dome.
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Europe's largest thermal bathing complex, an opulent neo-baroque palace of outdoor and indoor pools fed by hot springs at the edge of City Park.
Buda Castle
The sprawling royal palace crowning Castle Hill, rebuilt after Ottoman siege and wartime ruin, now home to the Hungarian National Gallery and sweeping views over the Danube.
New York Café
Budapest's most opulent historic café, an 1894 Italian Renaissance fantasy of gold leaf, frescoes and marble columns once favoured by the city's writers and poets.
Gerbeaud
Budapest's most famous confectionery, an 1858 institution on Vörösmarty tér serving layered Gerbeaud slices and cakes in ornate 19th-century salons.
Kőleves Vendéglő
A relaxed Jewish Quarter neighbourhood restaurant serving generous, unfussy Hungarian and Jewish-Hungarian home cooking around a leafy courtyard garden.
Herend Porcelain
Hungary's royal-warrant porcelain house since 1826, its flagship boutique selling hand-painted tableware and figurines finished with 19th-century techniques.
Szamos Marzipan
A family confectionery since 1935, its Váci utca flagship selling hand-modelled marzipan figurines, fruit shapes and filled chocolates made in the workshop upstairs.
Massolit Books & Café
A rambling secondhand and new English-language bookshop across a Jewish Quarter apartment, hub of Budapest's expat and literary community with a café tucked among the shelves.