Budapest
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 oldest wooden models dating back as far as 1947. As the largest such collection in Europe that's not only accessible to the public but also interactive, it has quite a cult following and is always busy.
A 500Ft voucher with entry is valid for your next session.
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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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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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St Stephen's Park is home to a Raoul Wallenberg memorial portraying a warrior doing battle with a snake (evil). Erected in 1999 and titled K铆gy贸枚l艖 鈥
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This is a great traditional market housed in a hideous boatlike postmodern structure designed by L谩szl贸 Rajk, son of the communist minister of the鈥
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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鈥
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Renovated Margaret Bridge introduces the Big Ring Rd to Buda. It's unique in that it doglegs in order to stand at right angles to the Danube where it鈥
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This monument, in the flower-bedded roundabout 350m north of the tram stop on Margaret Bridge, was unveiled in 1973 to mark the 100th anniversary of the鈥
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One of the highlights during the warmer months on Margaret Island is this musical fountain, which dances and sprays and pulsates to music on the hour鈥