Budapest Off The Beaten Path Tips by Cristian_Uluru Top 5 Page for this destination

Jozsef Nador ter

In this square, locate in the heart of Pest, you can see very nice building with Neo-classic and Secessionist facades.

Statue of Erzsebet Kiralyne

At the end of Erzsebet hid there is a small garden. In the middle of it you can see the statue of Queen Elizabeth (Erzsebet Kiralyne) made by Gyorgy Zala.

Groza Peter rakpart

Along this nice street near the Danube River you can see a wonderful landscape of the Pest side. The buildings along this street are nice. On one of them you can see very nice sculputeres of the four seasons. In the photo you can see a particular of these sculputers.

Corvin tér: statue

Outside the Kapucinusok templona there is this nice statue of Lajos Kutja made in the 1904.

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Kapucinusok temploma

100 metres far from Kalvinista templom, walking toward Clark Adam ter, there is the Kapucinusok temploma. This small nice church has got a baroque facade and it was built in the 1777. The church was restored in the 1856.

Kalvinista templom

About 400 metres far from Batthyany ter there is th Kalvinista templom. This nice church is located in the Szilagyi Dezso ter. This church has got a neo-gothic facade and it has got very nice coloured roof. From this point you can see very well the Parlament and the Chain Bridge.

Erzsebet Korut: building

Along the Erzsebet Korut, the big street just behind Liszt Ferenc ter, there are many nice building. On this street there is the famous New York cafe, but it is now under restoretion so it is impossible to see it.

National Istitute of Dance

In front of the Opera, in Andrassy Ut, there is the National Istitute of Dance. It was built by Lechner in 1883 with a French Renaissance style. In this building the Hungarian dancers are taught their first steps, and are trained right up to their final graduation, with an artist's diploma.

Petofi ter

In Petofi ter, a parallel street of Vaci utca, you can see the Petofi templom , a Greek Ortodox Church built in 1791-1794 with a Luis XVi style. It was made by the rich Greek merchants who lived in Pest in that time.

Vaci Utca

In the middle of the nice street of Vaci Utca, with many shops on its siedes, you can see the fountain of Mercury (Hermesz Kut) made in 1904. It is a good place to catch water from the fountain :)