What do you need to understand about Budapest on a first visit?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walks
Budapest invites comparisons between riverbanks, squares and places of government from the first walk. These routes introduce the city through stories that help locate its familiar names. Choose by the stops and the time you have, letting each place explain part of the whole rather than trying to take everything in at once.
In “Andrássy Avenue”: You start in front of St Stephen's Basilica, whose first dome collapsed one afternoon in 1868, and which keeps the hand of a saintly king, a relic that travelled for almost a thousand years.
In “The Jewish Quarter”: Then the rescuers: Lutz and his angel, and Sanz Briz, the man from Aragon who rented houses under the Spanish flag without asking Madrid's permission.
In “The Danube, bridge to bridge”: You finish at the Chain Bridge, with the story of the count who waited for days in front of the frozen river, the lions that, legend has it, have no tongues, and the bridge that fell into the water and came back exactly a hundred years after it first opened.
Choose from 4 independent walks in Budapest. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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You finish at the Chain Bridge, with the story of the count who waited for days in front of the frozen river, the lions that, legend has it, have no tongues, and the bridge that fell into the water and came back exactly a hundred years after it first opened.
You start in front of St Stephen's Basilica, whose first dome collapsed one afternoon in 1868, and which keeps the hand of a saintly king, a relic that travelled for almost a thousand years.
Then the rescuers: Lutz and his angel, and Sanz Briz, the man from Aragon who rented houses under the Spanish flag without asking Madrid's permission.
You start in the square where a raven with a ring explains King Matthias's coat of arms, and climb to the church that Suleiman turned into a mosque, where Franz Joseph and Sisi were crowned to a Mass that Liszt wrote for the day.
A view can seem close while lying across a bridge. Keep each walk within a sensible area and save some energy for simply stopping beside the Danube.
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