Culture, gastronomy, castles, legends, terms, ruine Pabi-eyes scatter from everything that can be done in the capital of Hungary. For you, we have sorted out the subject activity, choose what is closer to you.
How to get
Air Sentor is renewed. From Moscow to Budapest, reach in less than three hours, the cost of a ticket-from 20,000 rubles* per person is back and forth.
Entrance to Schengen, with a certificate of passing a full vaccination course or a negative result of a PCR test made a maximum of 72 hours before arrival.
In this material, we will tell you about what the capital of Hungary can surprise you and what unexpected places should be visited by a sophisticated tourist. If you want to investigate the main attractions, then read our article.
With steam
Budapest acquired the title of “City-SPA” in the 20th century, when the baths began to appear, as we see them today. They came to business meetings here and discussed important political issues. The terms were more built on the site of the Turkish Hammams built on mineral springs during the rule over Hungary of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. To immerse yourself in hot water in one of the ancient luxurious buildings is one of the main entertainment of Budapest. Pleasant and useful: the prevention of rheumatism, pain in muscles and skin diseases.
Sichs are more like royal mansions than just a bathhouse: among the majestically decor there are 15 closed pools and dozens of steamers with aromatherapy. A hallmark was the open air pool. Entrance ticket: from 5900 forints*.
Gellert bathing were built in 1918. Prior to this, local residents were afraid of muddy water, but, making sure of its healing properties, they built a building resembling a palace to smooth out the impression of an unpleasant color. It turned out 10 covered pools decorated with turquoise slabs, stained -glass windows and sculptures – a feeling is created that you are in the museum. Two more pools are outdoors. Entrance ticket: from 5900 forints*.
Rudash was built in the 16th century. The highlight was a hydromassage bath on the roof of the complex. Entrance ticket: from 3,500 forints*.
Palatinus became the first bath since 1919, where visitors could soak in an open -air bathing bath. Now the place is like a thermal entertainment complex surrounded by green trees: there are 15 pools – open, closed, with artificial waves and slides for all ages. Entrance ticket: from 3200 forints*.
Secret
Do you like a pinball or not, in the Flipperamuseum Museum you will definitely enjoy this game. The collector Balash Palfi began to collect devices of different eras, themes and manufacturers since the 1970s. Now 130 objects are in his power. For 3,500 forints* you can test all the devices.
The Arany Sas Patika Museum has been in the pharmacy building, which has worked since the middle of the 18th century. The situation of that time is preserved here and a collection of pharmaceuticals of pharmaceuticals is collected.
Among the exhibits: dried bats, lizards, various herbs and drugs, vessels for drugs, mortars and books on medicine of the Middle Ages. And there is also a recreated office of the alchemist with the corresponding interior of the 17th century. Entrance cost: 800 forints*.
Epresskert was originally a strawberry garden, then in 1880 it was thrown into the hands of artists, and they began to open workshops on neighboring streets. Nearby settled the Hungarian Institute of Fine Arts, which began to take care of the garden and arrange exhibitions here. The type of enchanting diverse statues scattered in the shade of trees gives the impression of a bewitching cemetery of sculptures.
More than a hundred rusting railway wagons can be seen in the suburbs of the capital at an abandoned Red Star station Istvántelek. In 1920, the repair shop was equipped here, over time it was abandoned, and leaving the wagons to live their age. Some of them belong to the era of communism, and in others they transported prisoners to Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
At first glance, Kerepeshi looks like a city park: chirping birds, rustling greenery, slowly walking people … But later you will notice mausoleums, old tombs and statues like in an open -air museum. Yes, this is the oldest Christian cemetery, where prominent figures of the country’s policy and art rest. Walk and study interesting exhibits.
Night
When night falls to the city, crowds of people go to the popular institutions of the capital-ruine bars. Initially, these were abandoned buildings destroyed after the war. Instead of restoring them, the owners used an “exotic” state and did not change anything, only furnished spaces with the help of objects found in flea markets and in stores with antiques.
Thanks to this stylization, you will definitely create the feeling that you looked at the mezzanine to the grandmother. However, it was such a decision to use buildings that saved them from demolition and revived the area, which became the center of attraction and tourists and local ones.
It all started with the famous Szimpla Kert – Mecca of the ruble pubs, the collections of which will envy any junk. Here you can taste the wine, drink on a cocktail, eat, dance, listen to a concert, sit in a diluted car or smoke a hookah in an old bath.
Instant-Fogas is one of the largest: 7 dance floors with different music and 18 bars, where parties take place every night. There are also slot machines, billiards, cozy backlight and a room with furniture on the ceiling.
The Red Ruin pub differs from other places – it makes fun of communist propaganda. On the brick walls under the red light you will find collages and pop-up versions of posters of the communist era, cartoon on the leaders of the revolution and funny phrases that want to take pictures without stopping. The menu has a rich selection of beer from different parts of the globe and snacks.
Pab of Doboz is the most fashionable, without the dominance of grandfather’s things and noticeable devastation, but with bizarre installations of young Hungarian talents and a figure of a gorilla, embracing a 300-year-old tree in the yard.
Underground
How much interesting was hidden near Budapest!
For example, under the Budai fortress is the Museum “Hospital in the Rock”. During the Second World War here there was a secret hospital, during the Cold War – a refuge from nuclear attacks, and in 2008 the place was turned into a museum. Studying the restored equipment and terrible sick leave with mannequins, visitors can feel the situation of the last century. The input ticket costs 4,000 forints*.
There lived in the cave Gellert Monk-herbalian Ivan, who treated people with thermal water. In 1926, Paulins (Catholic monks of the Order of Paul of the First Hermit) They erected a church and a monastery in this place. During the Second World War, the monks hid refugees here, then, due to the divergence of political views with the party, they were expelled, and the church was walled up until communism fell. Now the monks have returned to their monastery again, and the cave is open to visiting 500 forints*.
Under the castle mountain is a labyrinth-panoptic of the Middle Ages, which at one time served both a prison and a refuge from the enemies. For 3,000 forints* you will be offered to walk through raw rooms where you can study the monuments of the time of the Turkish recruitment, statues of Hungarian kings, wall drawings and wax figures, recreating scenes from the “ghost of the opera”. In one of the creepy rooms, they say, Vlad Tepes was sharpened and subjected to torture for 14 years – the prototype of Count Dracula. Allegedly stands his coffin here.
With a degree
About where to eat and drink we already wrote, we will only add:
– tasting local products is on the central market;
– It is better to try local wine right on the winery of the Budafok area, for example, LICS or Torley;
– It will be possible to evaluate the “rod” in any bar or restaurant. This is a local brandy, infused with different fruits and berries. A tasting can be arranged in Palinka Museum, paying from 3,000 forints*.
