The Millennium City in Budapest: audio walks

The city of the Millennium offers a way to look at how Budapest wanted to represent itself. These routes connect urban spaces, monuments and projects with that image of the city. They ask what was chosen for display and how those places continued to live afterwards, through political changes and the new uses that followed.

In “The Danube, bridge to bridge”: The birth of Budapest and the financing of its bridges let you view the Pest riverbank through the making of a united city.

In “Andrássy Avenue”: Then you walk the avenue that Parliament dismissed as a "luxury promenade".

In “Pest and the Revolution of 1848”: Then, 15 March 1848 hour by hour: the poem recited at the Pilvax café, the printing press taken at ten, where Petőfi wrote out from memory the text he'd left at home, the night at the theatre on the Astoria corner, the very hotel where, seventy years later, another revolution was run.

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.