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Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Budapest is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Enjoy a delicious goulash, admire Budapests Art Nouveau architecture and its fin-de-siecle atmosphere, or luxuriate in one of the citys many hot-spring bathhouses; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Budapest and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planets Budapest Travel Guide:
- Full-colour maps and images throughout
- Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - architecture, cuisine, wine, history, art, music
- Free, convenient pull-out Budapestmap (included in print version), plus over 30 colour maps
- Covers Parliament, Castle District, Belvaros, Erzsebetvaros & the Jewish Quarter, City Park, Obuda & Buda Hills, Margaret Island, Gellert Hill, and more
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet Budapest, our most comprehensive guide to Budapest, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.
- Looking for just the highlights? Check out Lonely Planets Pocket Budapest, a handy-sized guide focused on the cant-miss sights for a quick trip.
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets Hungary guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Steve Fallon and Sally Schafer.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the worlds leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
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Budapest
Straddling the Danube River, with the Buda Hills to the west and the Great Plain to the east, Budapest is a gem of a city.
Budapests beauty is not all God given; humankind has played a role in shaping this pretty face too. Architecturally, the city is a treasure trove, with enough baroque, neoclassical, Eclectic and Art Nouveau (or Secessionist) buildings to satisfy everyone. Overall, though, Budapest has a fin-de-sicle feel to it, for it was during the capitals golden age' in the late 19th century that most of what you see today was built.
They say the past is another country, but its always been just around the corner in Budapest. Witness the bullet holes and shrapnel pockmarks on buildings from WWII and the 1956 Uprising. There are sad reminders like the poignant memorial, but ones, too, of hope and reconciliation like the sword of the former secret-police building on Andrssy t now beaten into the ploughshare that is the House of Terror, with both sides of the story told. And theres joy as much-loved concert halls and theatres are built and renovated, metro lines extended and busy streets repaved and pedestrianised.
There's a lot more to Hungarian food than goulash, and it remains one of the most sophisticated styles of cooking in Europe. Magyars may exaggerate when they say that there are three essential world cuisines: French, Chinese and their own. But Budapests reputation as a food capital dates largely from the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century and, despite a fallow period under communism, the city is once again commanding attention. So, too, are its excellent wines from Villnys big-bodied reds and Somls flinty whites to honey-gold sweet Tokaj.
The city is blessed with an abundance of hot springs. As a result, taking the waters has been a Budapest experience since the time of the Romans. The choice of bathhouses is generous you can choose among Turkish-era, Art Nouveau and modern establishments. Some people come seeking a cure for whatever ails them, but the majority are there for fun and relaxation though we still maintain its the worlds best cure for what Hungarians call a macskajaj (cats wail): hangover.
By Steve Fallon
I love Budapest for all the right reasons architecture (especially Art Nouveau), romance (particularly the views from the bridges) and sticky apricot jam and some of the wrong ones, too (killer plinka (fruit brandy), rickety trolleybuses, and checking out bodies in the Turkish baths). When I first came to Budapest, I was bowled over by an often sad but confident city whose history seemed too complex to comprehend, by a beautiful but impenetrable language, and by a people I thought Id never know. I stayed on to learn more about all three.
Bombed and rebuilt at least half a dozen times since King Bla IV established a royal residence here in the mid-13th century, the Royal Palace has been home to kings and queens, occupiers like the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries, and nondomiciled rulers like the Habsburg royalty. Today the Royal Palace contains two important museums, the national library and an abundance of statues and monuments. It is the focal point of Buda's Castle Hill and the citys most visited sight. ()
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