Pocket Budapest 3 Preview
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 2:24:372:24:37 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 2:24:372:24:37 PM Welcome to Budapest
StraddlingStraddling the DaDanubenube withwith ththee Buda HiHillslls as backdbackdroprop and bboastingoasting enoughenough baroque, neoclassicalneoclassical and art nonouveauuveau 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 2:26:212:26:21 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 2:26:382:26:38 PM 6 Top Sights
Royal Palace Seat of power for centuries. p34 Plan Your Trip TIBOR BOGNAR / GETTY IMAGES © Top Sights Top
02--top-sights-pk-bud3.inddtop-sights-pk-bud3.indd 6 77/03/2019/03/2019 2:27:202:27:20 PM 9
Aquincum City Park Well-preserved Roman town. p74 Pest’s delightful green lung. p140 ET AIADLMN ET MGS© IH:VDLO/SUTRTC FROG DARES / SHUTTERSTOCK © LEFT: DANITA DELIMONT / GETTY IMAGES ©; RIGHT: VIDALGO / SHUTTERSTOCK © Plan Your Trip Top Sights Top
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 2:27:272:27:27 PM