Today best-known for its rooftop 360 Bar rather than any attractions within, the Párisi Nagy Áruház was once a casino, an elegant department store and Budapest's main fashion destination in the 1960s.
We visit képező, the new arts centre just off Margit körút, a previously neglected stretch of the Grand Boulevard soon to be revived with similar initiatives.
Long before today's Budapest Marriott Hotel and its prestigious predecessor, the Duna InterContinental, the Hungária Nagyszálló welcomed the likes of Richard Wagner, Franz LIszt and Richard Strauss.
Catch the new season at the B32 Galéria és Kultúrtér, cultural flagship of Újbuda, with challenging live theatre, excellent concerts and family-friendly festivals.
This year's World Press Photo Exhibition is being staged at Budapest's National Museum. Striking images provide a mirror to the tumultuous events of the recent past.
The big-hitting exhibition this autumn is The Discovery of the Pharaoh’s Tomb at the Museum of Fine Arts, where visitors negotiate a maze to admire the burial chamber of Amenhotep II from 1400 BC.
Take a look at how Budapest's main energy generators work when four complexes open their doors to the public on 8 October for Night of Power Plants, all free of charge.
It's all happening in Újbuda, where the B32 Galéria és Kultúrtér and the Karinthy Szalon are staging a whole range of cultural offerings this autumn.
It's been quiet for a while but now the soothing sounds of the Jazz Brunch at the József Katona Theatre are starting up again, from 11am this Sunday, 26 September.
For two decades, the Silver Arrow streaked through the Eastern bloc, carrying Hungary's Socialist leader János Kádár. We board his prestigious train in the company of two of its former employees.
The former Royal Riding School at Buda Castle has just been reopened after major renovation as an events space, part of the far-reaching Hauszmann Project to revamp the historic complex.
Elegant Corinthian columns surround the façade of the Villa Hild, built by Budapest's famed architect of the 1800s. Yet the Hilds only lived there for a short while before fate took a hand.
Walk into 1988 when you enter the Budapest Retro Interactive Museum, where all kinds of original artefacts, TV shows and imaginative games take you back to Socialist Hungary.
Major companies from Geneva, Rotterdam, Pécs and Szeged, among many others, take the stage for the Budapest Dance Festival, hosted at the Millenáris between 18 September and 9 October.
An exhibition by Zsófia Keresztes, After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage, will represent Hungary at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. We took a quick peek at how it's shaping up.
Urban greenery is always welcome but here in Budapest, certain residential courtyards are overflowing with plants, flowers and creepers. Star photographer Krisztián Bódis snapped the most verdant.
Reflecting a life spent in Nazi Germany and the GDR before an escape to the West, the work of Gerhard Richter currently showing at the National Gallery evokes themes of freedom and distance.
What's hidden behind the walls of an ivy-clad villa on Gellért Hill? Architecture dating to 1920 is one aspect of the former home of a cognac baron, another is a history involving spies and intrigue.
Berlin meets Budapest at Techno Worlds, a presentation of this musical genre and cultural movement in the suitably post-industrial setting of art quarter budapest. The exhibition runs until 3 October.
Celebrate the life and works of Hungary's cinematic legends, both on screen and behind the scenes, at September's Budapest Classics Film Marathon, showing around town and outdoors at the Basilica.
While his daughter Ella Bleu gets lost in Get Lost, a cinematic version of Alice in Wonderland set in Budapest, Hollywood star John Travolta boarded cocktail boat WAKA Budapest and met a local or two.
Named after Hungary's most famous composer, Liszt Ferenc tér wasn't always a leafy square exuding prestige. Here stood a silk factory, which lent its name to the wide street that later ran here.
With trees poking up through its sweeping roof, the House of Hungarian Music is the most radical architectural project in Budapest right now. Take a look this drone video and judge for yourself!
Look out for Budapest100 this September, when more than 40 private houses will be thrown open to the public in order to show visitors how the city developed following the two world wars.
All this week until next Monday, 31 August, visitors can admire the beautifully renovated St Stephen's Hall in Buda Castle free of charge – all you need do is book a time slot!