University Church (Egyetemi Templom) is certainly the most beautiful baroque church in Budapest! This church was built instead of a turkish mosque, as soon as the turques had to give up Budapest. At the main altar you may see a copy of the “Black Madonna” of Tschenstochau in Poland dating back to the year 1720. […]

The Serbian Church (Szerb Templom) in Pest dates back to the year 1698 when there was a large serbian colony in Budapest. The church was built by Andreas Mayerhofer and has a beautiful Ikonostase by Károly Sterios. The church and the small park around it is somehow like a quiet, small island between huge houses […]

The Royal Hungarian Vocational School of Mechanics and Watchmaking was founded in 1898. It’s building was made in 1900-1901 according to the plans of Gyula Partos. The eclectic building’s most impressing decorations are the glass-mosaics on the main facade and under the windws of the 1st floor. These were made in the workshop of Miksa […]

The brand new building of the Palace of Arts is housing the Hungarian National Concert Hall, The Ludwig Museum of Modern Arts and the Festival Theatre. The building is a very modern one with interesting architectural solutions. As every new building, it was subject to various political debates, and also some architectural ones, but it […]

The Orthodoxe Synagoge was one of the early buildings of the famous Austrian architect Otto Wagner. The orthodox synagoge was built, when the jewish population grew fast in the second half of the 19th century. It was almost completely destroyed in WW II and only partly restored afterwards. From outside it looks nice already, but […]

Two controversial buildings, future will decide if they will become also symbols of Budapest or not. On the left, the new National Theater. The old one was demolished on the 23rd of April in 1965 (it stood on Blaha Lujza square) and after a very long interim period, lots of debates and change of plans […]

Behind the big Synagoge you will see this monument inside a court, memorizing the victims of the Holocaust. Imre Varga was the architect of that monument, built in 1990. Next to the Synagoge you may also visit a jewish museum and the area, where the house stood, where Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was born. Theodor Herzl […]

Close to Klothild Palace and next to the Elisabeth Bridge (Erzsébet Híd) you will see this rather small church, beeing the Main church of Pest (Innerstadtische Pfarrkirche) Belvárosi Plébánia Templom in the street Marcius 15. tér. This church dates back to the 12th century and looks really beautiful from inside. The Curch some distance was […]

Not really “off the beaten path” because it is part of the Buda Castle area, but it is far enough away from the main area of the Castle that you can enjoy a quiet walk down this walkway or even sit on the bench and have lunch. You have a nice view of the Buda […]

Lord Rothermere, an english press magnate of his time, founder of the Daily Mail wrote his article about The Trianon decision about Hungary in 1927, with the title “The place of Hungary under the sun”. This was the first international article raising the issue of the humillation of Hungary with the Trianon agreement. The statue […]