The Hungarian State Opera House is defined by its Neo-Renaissance façade, which sits along Andrássy Avenue as a deliberate statement of nineteenth-century Hungarian cultural ambition. Designed by architect Miklós Ybl and opened in eighteen…
Andrássy Avenue
Stroll down Budapest’s grand, UNESCO-listed boulevard, designed in the late 19th century to rival the elegance of Paris. You will view beautiful neo-Renaissance palaces, the magnificent State Opera, and historic mansions before finishing at the monument-filled Heroes' Square.
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1. Hungarian State Opera
2. Drechsler-palota
The Drechsler Palace stands at twenty-five Andrássy Avenue as a French Renaissance-style building featuring ornate stone carvings, towers at its corners, and pointed balconies. Completed in eighteen eighty-six by architects Ödön Lechner…
3. Lotz-terem
The Lotz-terem is a hall defined by its high, gold-leafed ceiling covered in intricate, colorful murals painted by the nineteenth-century artist Károly Lotz. Located inside the Párizsi Nagy Áruház on Andrássy Avenue, the space is set apart…
4. House of Terror Museum
The House of Terror is marked by a wide, black metallic awning that overhangs the sidewalk at number sixty Andrássy Avenue. Cut directly into the metal of this structure is the word TERROR, which casts a large, repeated shadow of the word…
5. Kodály körönd
Kodály körönd is a circular plaza on Andrássy Avenue, defined by four matching Neo-Renaissance palazzos that form a nearly complete ring. Each of the four buildings features a small garden plot in front, and tucked within these green…
6. Alice Hotel
The Alice Hotel sits on Andrássy Avenue, an elegant boulevard designated as a World Heritage site. You can identify the building by its history as a nineteenth-century villa, which now houses forty-one rooms behind an exterior that…
7. Heroes' Square
The most striking feature of Heroes' Square is the thirty-six-meter tall Corinthian column at its center, topped by a statue of the Archangel Gabriel holding the Holy Crown and the apostolic double cross of Hungary. This landmark stands at…