Budapest, Hungary
Museums in at the city centre:
* Museum of Ethnography
* National Museum
* Museum of Applies Arts
* Natural History Museum
* Ludwig Museum of Modern Art
* Holocaust Memorial Centre
The Andrássy út boulevard in Pest stretches from Downtown (Belváros) to the City Park (Városliget). It is listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and has some important sights along it, including:
* The State Opera House
* The House of Terror (Terror Háza). Housed in the secret police headquarters, this museum objectively documents the terror of the Nazi and communist eras. Visiting is hard work, but essential for anyone wishing to understand Hungary’s recent past.
* The Hopp Museum of East Asian Art
* The City Park (Városliget) at the far end is probably the most pleasant of Pest’s districts and features several interesting if low-key attractions which are often overlooked:
o Heroes’ square (Hosök tere) – with the Millenium Monument
o Museum of Fine Arts (Szépmuvészeti Múzeum) has an incredible range of European artwork from Greek and Roman times to the present. Especially valuable is its collection of Spanish Baroque painting.
o Vajdahunyad Vára is a castle on a little island on a lake built for the 1898 World Fair. In the winter, the lake is turned into the city’s biggest ice rink.
On Buda side there are:
* Aquincum was a city in the Roman times, it’s remains are turned into a great open-air museum. It’s situated in the Óbuda district of northern Buda.
* Gül Baba Türbéje is the shrine where Gül Baba (literally Rose Father, from whom the Rózsadomb (Rose Hill) was named) lies. He was a rich turkish merchant in the Ottoman times. Offers a nice view and the little street which leads down the hill from there contains more houses that won the “House of the Year” award.
* Victor Vasarely Museum shows many works of the famous Hungarian-born post-modern painter Vásárhelyi Gyozo (1908-1997).
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