The Aquincum Museum is marked by a classical-style nineteenth-century building that sits in the middle of an expansive open-air ruin garden. This site preserves the remnants of a major Roman provincial capital that once served as a vital…
Budapest Through the Ages
This tour traces the history of Budapest from its Roman origins to the dramatic events of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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1. Aquincum Museum
2. Buda Castle
Buda Castle is distinguished by its copper-green dome that rises high above the southern tip of Castle Hill. It is a vast palace complex that has stood on this strategic limestone outcrop since the thirteenth century, when King Béla the…
3. Citadel
The Citadella is a long, U-shaped stone fortress sitting at the two hundred thirty-five meter summit of Gellért Hill. You can identify it by the massive, four-meter-high walls that stretch two hundred twenty meters along the plateau, and…
4. Shoes on the Danube Bank
Sixty pairs of iron shoes rest along the edge of the stone embankment on the Pest side of the Danube. These shoes, fashioned in the styles of the nineteen-forties, include boots, heeled shoes, and tiny pairs for children, all set directly…
5. Kossuth Lajos Square
Kossuth Lajos Square is dominated by the Hungarian Parliament Building, an immense neo-Gothic structure that rises above the east bank of the Danube. Before this site became the symbolic center of Hungarian political life, it was a…
6. 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…
7. Hungarian National Museum
The Hungarian National Museum is a grand neoclassical building defined by a monumental front portico topped with a sculptural pediment. At the center of this pediment, a female figure of Pannonia sits enthroned, extending laurel wreaths…
8. Corvin köz
Corvin köz is a narrow, nondescript passage that sits between tall apartment buildings in the eighth district of Budapest. While it appears to be a quiet residential alley today, it served as the primary defensive stronghold during the…
9. Fiumei Road Graveyard
The Fiumei Road Graveyard is defined by its fifty-six-hectare landscape that functions as a national pantheon for Hungary. Opened on April first, eighteen forty-nine, as a public cemetery for the city of Pest, it became the final resting…