Top choice in Castle District
This stylish, long-established restaurant, housed in what was a bakery in the Middle Ages, specialises in dishes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, revamped for the 21st century. Expect the likes of pike-perch and prawn 辫补辫谤颈办谩蝉, duck leg in pastry with apple cabbage and confit piglet cheek. Presentation is faultless; eat in the vaulted dining room, the covered side court or garden.
Live piano music nightly adds to the romance.
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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. Medieval Jewish Prayer House
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With sections dating from the late 14th century, this tiny house of worship contains documents and items linked to the Jewish community of Buda, as well鈥
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Housed in an 18th-century palace with a lovely courtyard, this wonderful little museum traces the development of music in Hungary from the 18th century to鈥
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This medieval entrance to the Old Town was rebuilt in 1936 to mark the 250th anniversary of the castle being taken back from the Turks. The gate is not鈥
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The big steeple on the south side of Kapisztr谩n t茅r, opposite the Museum of Military History and visible for kilometres to the west of Castle Hill, is the鈥
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Loaded with swords and pistols and cannon, this museum also does a good job with uniforms, medals, flags and battle-themed fine art, with excellent text鈥
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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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Parts of Matthias Church date back 500 years, notably the carvings above the southern entrance, but essentially the church (named after King Matthias鈥
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The bastion, a neo-Gothic masquerade that looks medieval and offers some of the best views in Budapest, was built as a viewing platform in 1905 by Frigyes鈥