Budapest
This new gallery with rotating exhibitions of modern and contemporary art is housed in the stunning Castle Garden Kiosk (V谩rkert Kioszk), a lovely little building with a fountain designed by Mikl贸s Ybl in 1878. It was once a pump house for Castle Hill; come here if for no other reason than to view the lovely renovated interiors.
There's a fine cafe with outside seating here too.
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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
1. Semmelweis Museum of Medical History
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This quirky (and sometimes grisly) museum traces the history of medicine from Graeco-Roman times through medical tools and photographs; inevitably in鈥
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This renovated pleasure park dating from 1893 has added a whole new dimension to Tab谩n district in recent years. The complex comprises over a dozen neo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 copyright National Sz茅chenyi Library contains codices and manuscripts, a large collection of foreign newspapers and a copy of everything published in鈥
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Northwest of Elizabeth Bridge is a statue of the Habsburg empress and Hungarian queen, Elizabeth. Consort to Franz Joseph, 'Sissi' was much loved by the鈥
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The former Royal Palace has been razed and rebuilt at least half a dozen times over the past seven centuries. B茅la IV established a royal residence here鈥
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To the southeast of the Habsburg Steps entrance, just in front of the Royal Palace, stands a statue of Eugene of Savoy, the Habsburg prince who wiped out鈥
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An easy way to cool down on a warm afternoon (and enjoy views of Castle Hill and the Royal Palace) is to stroll along the Duna korz贸, the riverside鈥