"Budapest - City of 2 Parts" a Hungary Travel Page by fabiandmicha

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Elizabeth Bridge

General Infos

Budapest is for the most visitors love at the first sight - it is one of the quite lain city of the world. The wide current of the Danube stretches like a silver thread through the city and divides the mountainous Buda and the flat Pest. This is why the City called Buda-Pest.

A must for each Budapest visitor is the Buda-Quarter with its historic old town on the castle mountain (Várhegy), that with its little small lanes, romantic cafés and medieval houses the Flair of the old Budas.

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View over Budapest

Sleeping and Eating

Budapest has from low-priced pensions to luxurious 5 - star hotels all variations at lodgings to offer.You can choose your the suitable roof over your head.

Palatschinken, Goulash, geese liver, Salami to sweet flour foods and hefty stews to the exquisiten culinary high flights - because of the Hungarian kitchen is a trip to Budapest worth it.

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Fisher Bastion

Shopping and Sightseeing

The first address for shopping is Váci utca on the Pest Side, where in the pedestrian zone both, the newest international fashion and the traditional people art offered. Kossuth Lajos utca, Rákóczi út, Károly are other shopping miles and Múzeum korút as well as the ring Szent István, Erzsébet and József korút.

To the sights, belongs the 2000 years of Roman amphitheater, 400 years Turkish baths, the parliament building, largest in Europe and one of the oldest subways of the continent. Also if you have only some days in Budapest to the decree, one should be in any case. Do not miss the hilly Buda with its romantic castle quarter and pomp eyelet king palace that Gellért mountain with its citadel and the Gellért-Monument. One short break of the metropolis in the Budaer mountains or on the Margareten-Island, that green oases make middle in the Budapest. In the Aquincum, you walk on traces of the Roman settlement Budapests 3000 years ago.