The museum ‘House of Terror’ is in the very same building that host two of Hungarys most dark eras. 1944 the Nazis used this place as headquarter and after the war the, as the museum called it the ‘notorious communist terror organisation’ AVO was using this house as headquarter till 1956. No matter what your […]

Baba was a Turkish warrior-saint who acted as the army’s Imam during the conquest of Hungary in the 1541 campaign. Some of his poems – Guldeste = Bunch of Roses – and some of his mystical prose survive. The original mausoleum was built by the Ottoman commander Mehmed Pasha. Today, the renovated tomb, topped with […]

The legionary garrison of 6000 spawned a settlement of camp followers – Aquincum – which, over time, became a Municipum and later a Colonia, the provincial capital of Pannonia Inferior. Enough foundation walls and underground piping survive to give a fair idea of layout of Aquincum, although you\’ll need to pay a visit to the […]