Budapest, Hungary
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South Buda is in Budapest. A big area on southern Buda, on the right side of Danube.
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Albertfalvai római katonai tábor és település
Archeological site. First camps made at reign of emperor Claudius around 30 BC. It was one of the earliest Pannonian limes (border) forts. Rebuilt under Emperor Trajan at the end of his reign. The place is in bad condition, and sometimes under water.
the former fortress on top of Gellerthegy, offers a superb panorama over Central Budapest including bank of the Danube River, Buda Castle and Pest city. To get good views up and down the Danube, take the steps going down in front of the Liberty Statue in front of the Citadella. There are several outposts offering good photo opportunities.
Gellért Szálloda és Fűrdő
is a very popular spa among tourists. Worth seeing even if you don't intend to swim (in summer, the outdoor part is open to visitors; entrance to indoor part is paid). See the Baths section in Budapest for details. Hotel Gellért is a famous, first class four star hotel in Budapest, Hungary. The hotel was erected on the right bank of the river Danube between 1916 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style with some biomorphic elements, at the foot of Gellért Hill, next to Szabadság Bridge. The four star Danubius Hotel Gellért, onetime Saint Gellért Hotel and Spa, was renovated in 1962 and in 1973. The spa, swimming pool and plaza built to the hotel is one of the most beautiful spas in Budapest. Hotel Gellért has been called "the first lady of Hungarian tourism". Gellért is one of the most famous historical hotels in Europe, which is well-known by businessmen and tourists. The inside of the hotel is built in Art Nouveau style with high glass cupola and wrought iron decoration. The characteristic oriental cone-shaped towers of the hotel and eventful frontage attract the look from long distances. Inside the hotel less, but more in the spa the original Art Nouveau furnishing stayed with artistic mosaics, colourful windows and statues. The ornament of the stairs starting from the reception in the hotel is the glass window, made on the basis of layouts of Bozó Stanisits, representing the Chase of the Miraculous Deer from the famous old Hungarian legend. At the beginning of the 20th century the apartments of the nobles were characteristically magnificent, while the other rooms were simply furnished with carefully designed pieces. The stylish furnishing of the rooms does credit to the work carried out by artists under the direction of Ferenc Szabja. The domed hall opened to a formal courtyard which was used as a conservatory with its sliding glass roof. The semi-circular lawned courtyard was surrounded by an alcove for the orchestra and a colonnade of the pump-room. The Indian maharajahs with their numerous attendants visiting Europe frequently put up at the luxuriously comfortable Hotel Gellért. During and after World War II the richly coloured coffered ceiling of the galleried foyer and the domed hall reminiscent of the great halls of the Roman thermal baths suffered almost irreparable damage. At the end of the 1950s the reconstruction of the hotel was started. Nowadays the Gellért Hotel is characterized by cosily furnished rooms in which the materials and colours of the textiles, furniture and coverings combine to radiate a sense of calm.
Sziklatemplom
The church was created from a natural cave system, following the Lourdes cave as sample in 1926.
Szent Gellért-templom
Built between 1984 and 1992, architect Andrew Kiss
Magyar Advent Temploma
Built in 1928-29, architect Medgyaszay István
Külső-Kelenföldi Református Gyülekezet temploma
Built between 1979 and 1981, architect István Szabó
Budai Ciszterci Szent Imre Plébánia, Szent Imre templom
Lágymányosi Ecumenical Centre, Lágymányosi Ökumenikus Központ
Szent Angyalok Templom, Gazdagrét
Albertfalva Szent Mihály Plébánia
Szent Szabina lelkészség és Szent Benedek Tanulmányi Ház
Gomba épület
'Mushroom' is the name of the building on the centre of the roundabout. Built in 1942. The suburban trains arriving from Fehervari street passing through the statue St. Imre bypass tracks and the Szent Gellért Square loop line turned back. In 1963 the suburban railway lines was transformed into tram lines.
Albertfalvi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény és Iskolamúzeum
Etele XI. Kerületi Helytörténeti Kör Kiállítóhelye
GAMMA Múzeum (A GAMMA Finommechanikai és Optikai Művek történetének emlékei)
GAMMA was a Precision Mechanics and Optics Works.
Molnár C. Pál Műterem-múzeum
Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum - Műszaki Tanulmánytár
HM Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum - Magyar Katonai Ellátás Története (szakgyűjtemény)
Bartók 32 Galéria
Kelenvölgyi Könyvtár
Budapesti Művelődési Központ
ELTE TTK Természetrajzi Múzeum
Collections: Mineralogy and Petrology storage found 1744, Biological and Paleontological Exhibition
Autóbuszgarázs
A monument.
A monument
Budaörsi repülőtér
A monument.
Kaffka Margit Gimnázium
http://www.muemlekem.hu/muemlek?id=1114
Lazaristák kápolnája
Kelenföldi Erőmű
Szent Imre Ciszterci gimnázium, József Attila Gimnázium
Wälder Gyula, 1927-29
Ínség-szikla
The named this way because if there is low tide and only dry season (period at the time of dearth) can be visible.
Szoborpark
Memento Park is an open air museum in Budapest, dedicated to monumental statues from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989). There are statues of Lenin, Marx, and Engels, Dimitrov as well and several Hungarian Communist leaders. The Statue Park, was first conceived by the literary historian László Szörényi in 1989 when he suggested the various Lenin statues from all over Hungary could be gathered into one "Lenin garden". According to Ákos Eleőd, the architect: "This park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship." Visitors may well interpret this as an assertion that the Hungarian spirit is stronger than communism. Possible souvenirs are CDs of Hungarian communist fight songs, reproduction Hungarian Communist Party membership booklets, funny postcards and posters.
Nagytétényi Kastélymúzeum
The 18th-century Száraz-Rudnyánszky Mansion. Look inside a Baroque castle: in its rooms can be seen the show entitled "The History of Furniture Art". Don't miss it!
I. világháborús emlékmű Budafokon
I. világháborús emlékmű Nagytétényben
Bronze mythical 'Turul' bird
Barlanglakás-múzeum
Protected monuments
Budafoki pince rendszer
Much of the food industry exploits. The experts called "360 cellar." It is home to the world's largest barrels of traditional sizes in use.
Czuba–Durozier kastély
Nagytétényi Gloriette
Statue of Nepomuki Szent János.
Sacelláry-kastély
Kerámiapark
Törley-kastély, Országos Frédéric Joliot-Curie Sugárbiológiai és Sugáregészségügyi Kutató Intézet
Built in 1890-1904. Now this is the "Frédéric Joliot-Curie" Radiobiology Research Institute
Törley-mauzóleum
Connected with Cemetery of Budafok. - Made in Art Nouveau style, by Ray Rezső, in 1912. József Damkó carved the ornament statues.
Budafoki városháza
Budafoki Római katolikus plébániatemplom
Budafoki Református templom
Gellért fűrdő
While the Kiraly baths may be a more authentic Turkish bath experience, the famous Gellért Bath can't be beaten in terms of style. This is among the finest Art Nouveau baths in Europe, part of Spa Hotel Gellért. Ask the information desk to clarify if you're not sure about how to proceed as the procedures, dignified by tradition, are not always straightforward. If you hire a towel (resembling a bedsheet) or a bathrobe, you will need the original receipt ticket for getting back your deposit. You'll need to get your receipt ticket back from the attendants inside when you return your item, otherwise you forfeit your deposit. Unfortunately, the managers are quite unforgiving in this matter and won't believe you if you try to collect your deposit without your item or a receipt. Changing: Individual lockers, single-person cabins, and family cabins are available. Indoors: since 2013 every part of the spa is common for men and women. Common area for men and women has a 50 m swimming pool and a soaking pool with massage bubbles, both with 36-38°C water. Wearing swimming caps is required, but not always enforced. There are common Turkish-style thermal baths for men and women, offering several different areas: two soaking pools (one with 36°C, another with 38°C), the showers, the dry sauna and Turkish steam bath, and the cold pool (designed to scare the living daylights out of you aftea happy warm soak). Outdoors: a large open-air complex of pools (open only in summer time).
Budai Arborétum
Feneketlen tavi park
The park total area is 40,809 sqm. It was built between 1958 and 1960 according to plans by Mihaly Mőcsényi. In the mid part located the Bottomless Lake. Here you will find the Buda Park Stage, near to the lake, of which the former worked with various functions, but it is now only a ruin. The fountain of the lake to improve oxygenation of water. Several statues located in the park. The "Bear" statue by Laszlo Molnar (located at playground); Béla Bartók statue made by József Somogyi, 1981, (located under bells, at the side of Kosztolányi Dezső Square); there is a tennis hall and to the side of it are two monuments, Gyula Illyés and Zoltan Gulyas, first was a Hungarian, 20th century, poet and novelist, last was a 20th-century, YBL-prize winner, Hungarian architect; sitting boy statue, made by Magda Gabor (1997) adorns the fenced playground. The usual 'Park' tree species found in the majority in the park. Next to stage are silver maples at the tennis courts is an oak tree (almost hundred years old), near to waterside are a couple willow trees. Some specific species or sizeable trees also can be found here Cercis siliquastrum (Judas tree), Juniperus virginiana (Virginian juniper), Castanea sativa (chestnut), Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree), Broussonetia papyrifera (paper mulberry tree), Quercus robor"Fatigiata" (columnar oak), Caragana arborescens (Siberian peashrub)
Feneketlen-tó
Its area of 1.1 ha and a depth of 4-5 meters. Play tennis, gym's, try fishing or just relaxing.
(Hungarian: Gellért-hegy;German: Blocksberg; Latin: Mons Sancti Gerhardi; Turkish: Gürz Elyas bayiri, in the Middle Ages: Kelen-hegy, Pesti-hegy )
Gellért Hill was named after Saint Gerard who was thrown to death from the hill. Sights around the hill include: Hotel Gellért and the Gellért Baths (located in Gellért Square at the foot of the hill, next to Liberty Bridge); the Gellért Hill Cave in the hill, facing toward Hotel Gellért and the Danube River); the Citadella (Citadel, at the top of the hill) a perfect viewpoint, Gellért Hill Waterfall (on northest), Rock Chapel (southern descent). Since 1987, the area is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site as part of "the Banks of the Danube". A large part of the hill consists of protected parkland, therefore part of the Danube-Ipoly National Park. There are some sculptures as Statue of Liberty; Statue of Stephen I of Hungary (outside Gellért Hill Cave). About the vegetation: there can be found different trees -- English oak, Tatarian Maple (mostly on West side of the Hill), Field Elm, Field Maple, South European flowering ash, dolomite-rock grassland, fig and wild rose bushes (remnants of the Ottoman era), yew tree, thuja, some cypress, hazel, hornbeam and acacia. The fauna: different types of birds: dawn bird, peregrine falcon, goldcrests mostly in migration time; different crows, blackbirds and sparrows can be seen anytime; Typical insects are: different butterflies, firebugs, Blue Xylocopinae. In spring and summer come out to sunny rocks the lizards. Some mammals like the Northern white-breasted hedgehog and squirrels are also quite common sights. The mountain provides an opportunity for the visitors pleasant forest walks. There is a flower garden on the top of the hill, where one can rest on benches - a nice relaxing place. On the south side of the mountain is a unique playground with five slides (tube slide, straight slide, twisting slide, wavy slide, wide slide for parents with small children) gives pleasure to children. Also on the south side is another playground with swings and sandboxes, directly above the Gellért tér, specific to small children. The Gellert Hill hosts fireworks on 20 August.
Jubileumi-park
Perfect for strolling. Viewpoint with excellent photo opportunities
Háros-szigeti Ártéri-erdő Természetvédelmi terület
Area 56 ha. The most famous fauna is native, protected wild grape. Now is a peninsula, because in 1911, the northern part filled and connected to the shore of the river. This reserve is part of the Danube-Ipoly National Park
Kopaszi gát
The dam is the Lágymányosi bay separated by the Danube River. There are several small restaurants and playhouse for kids. A popular resting and meeting place.
Kosztolányi Dezső tér park, pronounced [ˈdɛʒøː ˈkostolaːɲi];
The square named after a Hungarian poet and prose-writer at the interscetion of Bocskai road and Bartók Béla road. The park area is almost one hectare. Splitted for four part by main road. The Buda Park Stage and the Bottomless Lake in the immediate vicinity of the square. Before replaced to Etele tér here was the Kosztolányi Dezső tér Bus Terminal, now protected monument building. Partly of the square is planted with flowers. The Acacia trees are in the majority, but there are also a few Judas and paper mulberry trees. Two sculptures can be found around the square: one is the Dezso Kosztolanyi statue and the other is the statue of one of the most important composers of the 20th century, Béla Bartók (made by József Somogyi, 1981).
Függetlenségi park
The area of it is 6470 m². It was built between 1962 according to plans by Mihaly Mőcsényi. Later a fountain and a monument built here by Vera Csorba. In 1994 inaugurated the monument of Independence. In the middle of the fountain, a work of György Vadász and Sandor Kiss. The yews (Taxaceae), the Sorbus, China trees (Koelreuteria paniculata) are beautiful decorations in the park
Sas-hegyi Látogatóközpont
Visit the Royal Eagle Mountain Nature Reserve, almost in city centre. More info
Gabányi László Sportcsarnok
Capacity: 1000 person. There are 3 volleyball fields, 3 basketball fields, football, futsal, handball 9 badminton fields, 6 fields for speedbadminton
Hunyadi Úti sporttelep (Kelen sportpálya)
Nyéki Imre Uszoda, Érem utcai sportcsarnok
Újbudai Sportcentrum
There are four tennis courts, two artificial turf soccer field and a gym
BEAC Sportcsarnok
Karinthy Színház
Pioneering activities in one continuous play, independent rock theater, former cinema.
MU Színház
MU, one of the well-known Budapest dance theatres hosts contemporary dance performances.
Szkéné Színház
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) theatre hall: during the construction of metro 4 station in Szent Gellért tér use temporary stairs next to the river for reaching the building. Szkéné hosts, among others, Béla Pintér and Company (Pintér Béla és Társulata), many alternative theater goers' favourite. Book your ticket by email.
Asia Food, Asia Büfé
Chinese self-service restaurant.
Badabing Kávézó
Bazsalikom Vendéglő
Amaretto Étterem
Borsodi (Hungarian) and Belgian beers.
Bécsiszelet Étterem - Sasad
The best Vietnamese pho in the district and probably in the whole city. Don't be surprised if the queue is outside.
leroy Újbuda
More units in Buda Lövőház utca 1-5.; Alkotás út 53
The small bistro of the Gold Sports Centre with surprisingly delicious three course meals under Ft2,000.
Tasty burgers and a wide variety of Hungarian craft beers next to the BME campus.
Avar Söröző
While the pirate ship decor says 'pub', the Duck in Orange Rosemary Sauce says 'restaurant'. Excellent service, great crème brûlée, and exceedingly reasonable 5 puttonyos Tokaji. A winner when you want something other than gulyás. Draught Beer: Dreher, Pilsner Urguell, Tuborg, Paulaner Wheat, Paulaner Pils. Coffee: Italian coffee. All types cafe in decaffeinated version available.
A38 étterem és bár
'Artemovsk 38' Boat. Turned into a music club from an old Ukrainian stone-carrier ship, A38 is floating on Danube river and considered as one of Budapest's best quality party places (and one of Europe's coolest clubs). Hosts various music performances. 3 minutes walk southwards from Petőfi bridge, Buda side.
Visit one of the largest wine cellar labyrinth of the world and taste quality Hungarian wines from several Hungarian wine regions. Take a walk around the amazing 30 km long wine labyrinth, carved deep into a limestone hill with many historic attractions. it has been a constantly working wine cellar for more than 300 years, aging wines from different Hungarian wine regions.
formerly Backpacker Guesthouse
Small friendly hostel is laidback. Kitchen access, inexpensive beer for sale, a great lounge with lots of free movies to watch, hammocks in the backyard, a grocery store nearby, in a residential area near the 51/53 tramline.
Schönherz diákszálló
It's a 20-storey-high building. Mainly functions as student accommodation for Budapest University of Technology and Economics, but has some rooms for travellers out-of-term. However most are only available for larger groups.
3-star historical pension. Garage €15/day.
Small modern 3-star hotel
Yes, it is the famous Gellert Hotel! Art Nouveau 4-star with baths, spa & sauna. See also the Baths section in Budapest article.
Fonó Budai Zeneház
Fonó provides a high quality selection of Hungarian folk, etno and world music. They offer concerts, folk dance performances as well as dance houses called táncház in Hungarian. Every Wednesday evening they have Hungarian dance club, which is an excellent place to see how young Hungarians revitalize traditional culture.
G'Roby Prémium
The G’Roby Food Supermarket Chain was founded in 1992. The chain has 6 offline stores in Budapest, set up its door-to-door delivery service in 1999 and launched its on-line shop in the spring of 2000. 6500 items, daily renewed range. Delivery by 22 own cars to Budapest and fixed parts of Pest County even within 24 hours.
CBA Food Supermarket Chain.
ATM, Parking: 1200. Supermarket chain. More units in district XI.: Bartók Béla út 14., Kérő utca 1., Péterhegyi lejtő 36., Bartók Béla út 51, Etele út 58-60., Fehérvári út 166., Irinyi József utca 34., Rétköz utca 3-5., Fehérvári út 97-99.
Car Park for 13 units. Supermarket chain. More unit in district XXII.: Kossuth Lajos utca 41.
Reál Élelmiszer
Fehérvári úti Vásárcsarnok
Flowers. Fresh food. Farmers market. CNN Travel report
Allee Shopping Mall
Goods in shops almost all category, many fast food restaurants and three cafes.
Campona Shopping Mall
Goods in shops almost on all category, sixteen restaurants and three cafes, Interactive science center, cinema, Adventure park
Savoya Park Shopping centre
The main train connection served by Budapest–Kelenföld Railway Station is becoming more and more important. (Many trains leaving from Keleti pályaudvar stop here.)
Read in the guideThere are some stops of Metro line 4 here, Budapest's newest underground train: Szent Gellért tér – Műegyetem, Móricz Zsigmond körtér, Újbuda-központ, Bikás park, Kelenföld vasútállomás.
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