The first Hungarian architect to look to art nouveau for inspiration was Frigyes Spiegel, who designed this block at the northern end of VI Izabella utca in 1896. The entire facade is covered with suns, stars, peacocks, flowers, snakes, foxes and long-tressed nudes.
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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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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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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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The Eclectic-style Parliament, designed by Imre Steindl and completed in 1902, has 691 sumptuously decorated rooms. You鈥檒l get to see several of these and鈥
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The Hungarian National Museum houses the nation鈥檚 most important collection of historical relics in an impressive neoclassical building, purpose built in鈥
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The large iron-and-glass structure on Nyugati t茅r is the 'Western' train station, built in 1877 by the Paris-based Eiffel Company. In the early 1970s a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
3. Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum
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This wonderful little museum is housed in the Old Music Academy, where the great composer Liszt lived in a 1st-floor apartment for five years until his鈥
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This lovely residence with phenomenal stained glass and grillwork was designed by Zolt谩n B谩lint and Lajos J谩mbor in 1902.
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On Lehel t茅r you鈥檒l see the twin spires of this 1933 copy of a celebrated 13th-century Romanesque church now in ruins at Zs谩mb茅k, 33km west of Budapest.
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Built as a block of flats by master architect K谩lm谩n Albert K枚r枚ssy in 1904, this lovely Secessionist building now serves as a school.
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This quirky museum housed in a basement is one of Budapest's hidden attractions. It鈥檚 home to 140 vintage pinball museums 鈥 yes, you can play all but the鈥
8. Ferenc Hopp Museum of East Asian Art
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This museum of East Asian art is housed in the former villa of its benefactor and namesake; the pagoda in front gives the game away. Founded in 1919, the鈥