február 21 at 11:45 AM CET
Sights & culture
Go beyond the mainstream with the new Secret Budapest book
Secret Budapest spills the city’s best-kept secrets, revealing 140 hidden gems even locals don’t know about.
August 29, 2023 at 6:35 PM CEST
Sights & culture
7 iconic buildings that are easier to visit than you think
From St Stephen's Basilica to the Museum of Ethnography, here is an insider's guide on how to explore some of Budapest's most stunning buildings.
August 29, 2023 at 12:49 PM CEST
Sights & culture
Párisi Department Store (Closed)
The department store
February 7, 2023 at 2:10 PM CET
Sights & culture
Buda Castle is among the 15 most Instagrammed castles in Europe, The Thinking Traveller's research shows
The Thinking Traveller created a list of the most popular castles and palaces in Europe, based on the hashtags used on Instagram.
November 25, 2022 at 4:33 PM CET
Sights & culture Stay
New York Palace Budapest
The New York Palace is one of the most elegant buildings in Budapest
November 4, 2022 at 11:09 AM CET
Sights & culture
He didn't like Michelangelo, he stood out, and he renewed portraiture – we visited the El Greco exhibition
The exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts is a comprehensive and exhaustive exploration of El Greco's art, featuring more than fifty of his works, alongside works by some of his contemporaries.
August 19, 2022 at 3:42 PM CEST
Sights & culture
Heroes’ Square
One of the city’s main landmarks and the gateway to the City Park or Városliget
July 8, 2022 at 10:23 AM CEST
Sights & culture
Amazing new images show Matthias Church from above
See Matthias Church as you never seen it before, thanks to dramatic soaring images taken by intrepid photographer Milán Medgyesi!
July 1, 2022 at 9:12 AM CEST
Sights & culture
Museum of Fine Arts
Renovated through 2018 and 2019, the stately Museum of Fine Arts occupies a prominent location along one side of Heroes' Square, where Classical antiquities and European Masters sit under one roof.
June 21, 2022 at 11:24 AM CEST
Sights & culture
Pictures of Budapest – The hidden staircases of Castle Hill
If you've ever skipped the queue for the Funicular and taken the stairs instead, you know what a stiff climb it can be. Yet some of these staircases are dramatic in their own right – take a look!
May 5, 2022 at 4:43 PM CEST
Sights & culture
Museum of Applied Arts (Temporarily closed)
UPDATE: The museum closed in 2017 to start the full reconstruction and expansion
April 26, 2022 at 2:01 PM CEST
Budapest
5 great film locations in Budapest for a dystopian movie
It's the end of the world as we know it, and the last humans are eking out an existence in an abandoned psychiatric hospital or ginormous power plant – where better to film this movie than Budapest?
April 8, 2022 at 8:11 PM CEST
Budapest
Chain Bridge lions to be back in place by the autumn
After painstaking restoration, the lion statues will be returned to the Pest bridgeheads of the Chain Bridge by the autumn.
April 7, 2022 at 3:32 PM CEST
Sights & culture
Funicular
Connecting the Danube bank with Castle Hill
March 29, 2022 at 3:51 PM CEST
Budapest
Green light given to build Budapest’s new Museum of Transport
All aboard! Permits have been granted to construct the various buildings making up the complex of the new Transport Museum, set to transform the former industrial neighbourhood of Kőbánya.
March 11, 2022 at 3:34 PM CET
Sights & culture
Opera House
The Opera House Hungarian State Opera – opened in 1884 –
March 9, 2022 at 9:55 AM CET
Budapest
Tourism expert at the International Business School points to a bright future for Budapest
Quality tourism for more discerning tourists is the way forward for Hungary, according to UK expert Alan Godsave, lecturer at Budapest’s International Business School.
February 4, 2022 at 10:23 AM CET
Sights & culture
New drone video shows the beauty of Budapest in winter
Follow filmmaker Roxana Beloiu as she takes in the outstanding sights of Budapest in winter in her dramatic new video featuring amazing drone shots over our fair city.
January 18, 2022 at 7:10 PM CET
Sights & culture
Budapest Corvinus University (BCE)
The Corvinus University of Budapest has been training economists and other financial experts since 1948
January 15, 2022 at 11:12 AM CET
Sights & culture
Tomb of Gül Baba
A perfect spot for a romantic rendezvous
January 10, 2022 at 7:29 PM CET
Sights & culture
Nagymező utca
The capital has a truly cosmopolitan street known as " Budapest's Boradway ": Nagymező Street
January 10, 2022 at 10:13 AM CET
Sights & culture
Visit Budapest’s synagogue triangle – historic houses of worship cluster close together in town
Budapest's three main synagogues stand within a short walk of each other in the Jewish Quarter, close to the city centre. Their architecture reveals many things about their approaches to Judaism.
January 10, 2022 at 10:02 AM CET
Sights & culture
Kazinczy utca Synagogue
The gigantic building that dominates narrow Kazinczy utca was completed in 1913