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Contents Plan Your Trip 4 Welcome to Budapest ........4 Top Sights ............................6 Eating .................................10 Drinking & Nightlife ..........12 Shopping ............................14 Tours...................................16 Thermal Baths & Pools ....18 Entertainment .................. 20 Museum & Galleries .........21 For Kids ............................. 22 LGBT .................................. 23 Four Perfect Days ............24 Need to Know ................... 26 Matthias Church (p42), Castle District GTS PRODUCTIONS / SHUTTERSTOCK © 00--title-page-contents-pk-bud3.inddtitle-page-contents-pk-bud3.indd 2 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:24:37:24:37 PM Explore Survival Budapest 31 Guide 145 Castle District .................. 33 Before You Go ................ 146 Gellért Hill & Tabán ..........51 Arriving in Budapest ......147 Óbuda .................................67 Getting Around ...............147 Belváros ............................ 79 Essential Information .... 149 Parliament & Around ...... 89 Language .........................152 Margaret Island & Index .................................155 Northern Pest ................ 103 Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter ..........111 Special Features Southern Pest ................ 129 Royal Palace .....................34 Gellért Baths .................... 52 Worth a Trip Citadella & Memento Park ..................64 Liberty Monument ...........54 Aquincum ...........................74 Parliament ........................90 Touring the Buda Hills ......76 Basilica of St Stephen .....92 City Park ......................... 140 Great Synagogue ............112 Hungarian National Museum .......................... 130 00--title-page-contents-pk-bud3.inddtitle-page-contents-pk-bud3.indd 3 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:24:37:24:37 PM Welcome to Budapest StraddlingStraddling the DanubeDanube withwith thethe Buda HillsHills as backdbackdroprop and bboastingoasting enoughenough baroque, neoclassicalneoclassical and art nouveaunouveau architectarchitectureure to sasatisfytisfy anyone,anyone, BudaBudapestpest iiss endowed with botbothh natural and hhuman-createduman-created beauty. But the Queen of the Danube is not just a pretty face. At night she dons her party dress to enjoy the region’s premier party town. 01--welcome-to-pk-bud3.inddwelcome-to-pk-bud3.indd 4 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:26:21:26:21 PM Széchenyi Chain Bridge (p97) across the Danube River ZSOLT HLINKA / GETTY IMAGES © 01--welcome-to-pk-bud3.inddwelcome-to-pk-bud3.indd 5 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:26:38:26:38 PM 6 Top Sights Royal Palace Seat of power for centuries. p34 Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan TIBOR BOGNAR / GETTY IMAGES © IMAGES GETTY / BOGNAR TIBOR Top Sights 02--top-sights-pk-bud3.inddtop-sights-pk-bud3.indd 6 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:27:20:27:20 PM 9 Aquincum City Park Well-preserved Roman town. p74 Pest’s delightful green lung. p140 LEFT: DANITA DELIMONT / GETTY IMAGES ©; RIGHT: VIDALGO / SHUTTERSTOCK © SHUTTERSTOCK / VIDALGO RIGHT: ©; IMAGES GETTY / DELIMONT DANITA LEFT: © SHUTTERSTOCK / DARES FROG Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Great Synagogue World’s largest synagogue outside NYC. p112 02--top-sights-pk-bud3.inddtop-sights-pk-bud3.indd 9 77/03/2019/03/2019 22:27:27:27:27 PM.

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A Hero's Welcome
A hero’s welcome Kaiser’s-Plus Budapest Marathon, Hungary. 28 September 2003 By György Muladi The Budapest Marathon was born under the old socialist system and, despite change all around, it has been a constant in the city’s sporting calendar ever since. Its success is based upon good organisation and traditional Hungarian hospitality for foreigners. It became a full AIMS member in the third year. Since then the course has shifted occasionally, but it now takes centre stage through the middle of Passing under Szabadsághíd (Liberty Bridge) The Parliament seen from the Buda side both Buda and Pest. On 14 April 1984 the Budapest became reality when 1500 runners, Margaret Island – a wooded haven by which they cross back to Pest. Marathon started out in life from a third of them from 30 foreign and the favourite spot for training Margaret Bridge, Margaret beside the Népstadion (People’s countries, started and finished the in the metropolis. Many of the 800 race at Heroes’ Square – the foreign runners came from France, Island, and Árpád Bridge follow Stadium). It was the first time that up, with lots of sights in between, a marathon was run through the equivalent of Berlin’s Brandenburg Holland or Sweden, and as many Gate. The colonnaded Square is as 85 of them from Iceland. including the Hungarian Hungarian capital. Before then Parliament and the Academy of there was no mass marathon in lined by statuary commemorating the heroes of 1000 years of There was the usual pasta party Sciences. Throughout the route Hungary, where ‘amateurs’ pitted on Saturday afternoon, then on great panoramic views greet the themselves against ‘professionals’.
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