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Attractions

Buda Castle

Budapest Eye

Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden

Cat Museum Budapest

  • Pirate, the museum’s calico cat, lying on a cat tree in front of a turquoise wall at Cat Museum Budapest. Photo: via Tiqets
  • A white long-haired cat and a plush cat on a table in front of the painting wall at Cat Museum Budapest, with a picture of a cat on the Chain Bridge behind. Photo: via GetYourGuide
  • The glass case of porcelain cats upstairs at Cat Museum Budapest, with Zsolnay, Herend and Hollóháza figures on white shelves. Photo: via Tiqets
  • The Egyptian-style selfie wall at Cat Museum Budapest, painted with a gold sun disc and two black cats, with a ring light on a stand in front. Photo: via Tiqets
  • Painting workshop participants at tables of acrylics and canvases, reaching down to four of the resident cats on the floor at Cat Museum Budapest. Photo: via Tiqets

City passes

Dohány Street Synagogue

Ferenc Puskás Arena

Fisherman's Bastion

Gellért Thermal Bath

Great Market Hall

Hop-on hop-off buses

  • Passengers with earphones on the open top deck of a Big Bus in Budapest. Photo: Big Bus Tours, via Tiqets
  • A Big Bus double-decker passing the Műcsarnok, the Hall of Art, on Heroes' Square in Budapest. Photo: Big Bus Tours, via Tiqets
  • The Castle Garden Bazaar on the Buda embankment with the Royal Palace of Buda Castle rising behind it. Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
  • The west front of St. Stephen's Basilica seen from Szent István tér, with the steps up to the main entrance. Photo: Linda Gerbec / Unsplash
  • A red City Sightseeing Budapest open-top double-decker waiting at a stop in central Budapest. Photo: Christo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Passengers boarding a red City Sightseeing double-decker at the Dohány utca stop in Budapest in winter. Photo: Globetrotter19, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • A Big Bus Budapest double-decker on Gellért Hill with Buda and the Danube behind. Photo: Big Bus Tours, via Tiqets
  • A Big Bus double-decker at the Castle Garden Bazaar below Buda Castle. Photo: Big Bus Tours, via Tiqets
  • The Dohány Street Synagogue seen from the Károly körút side, with the arcaded museum wing on the left and the two towers behind. Photo: 2jaipm / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • A Big Bus open-top double-decker passing the Millennium Monument on Heroes' Square in Budapest. Photo: Big Bus Tours, via Tiqets
  • Gellért Hill in Budapest seen from below, with the Liberty Statue and the Hungarian flag on the summit. Photo: Paul Colin Hennig / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • A car of the Buda Castle Funicular climbing the brick-walled track towards Szent György tér. Photo: Jakub Hałun / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The Hungarian Parliament on the far bank of the Danube, seen from the Buda side with the edge of a stone turret on the right. Photo: Mike is Michi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The blue Official Budapest Castle Bus electric minibus with passengers at Clark Ádám tér, with the Chain Bridge behind. Photo: Official Budapest Castle Bus, via GetYourGuide
  • The south side of Matthias Church from Szentháromság tér, with the Mary Gate porch, the tiled roof and the Matthias Tower. Photo: HerrAdams / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Soldiers of the Honvéd Palace Guard changing the guard in front of Sándor Palace on Szent György tér, Buda Castle. Photo: Fenykepezo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

House of Terror Museum

  • The Gulag room on the second floor of the House of Terror Museum, its floor a map of the Soviet Union with black cones hanging above it. Photo: n1207 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • The Churches room on the first floor of the House of Terror Museum, a lit cross sunk into the floor of a dark vaulted corridor. Photo: n1207 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • The Soviet T-54 tank in the glassed-over atrium of the House of Terror Museum, seen from a gallery above, with the wall of victims' portraits behind it. Photo: Fred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • The House of Terror Museum on a sunny day, with the word TERROR, cut into the black entablature, falling as a shadow on the facade. Photo: Tbachner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
  • The House of Terror Museum on Andrássy út under its black entablature, the starting point for the tours that include entry. Photo: TransferMe, via Tiqets
  • The row of oval portraits set into the base of the black frame of the House of Terror Museum, the museum's Wall of Heroes, with flowers left beneath. Photo: Fred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • The Iron Curtain sculpture on the pavement of Andrássy út, a wall of rusted chains hung from steel girders, with the facade of the House of Terror Museum behind. Photo: Fred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • The wall of victims' portraits in the atrium of the House of Terror Museum, rising the full height of the building under the words ÁLDOZATOK, VICTIMS. Photo: Fred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Hungarian National Museum

Hungarian Parliament

Hungarian State Opera House

Lukács Thermal Bath

Madame Tussauds Budapest

  • The Sissi wax figure in a white gown beside her carriage in the Hungarian Spirit zone of Madame Tussauds Budapest, with the King Stephen set behind. Photo: Hungaria Koncert, via Tiqets
  • Two visitors kissing the Madonna wax figure on the cheeks under a neon sign at Madame Tussauds Budapest. Photo: Hungaria Koncert, via Tiqets
  • Two visitors taking tea beside the Queen Elizabeth II wax figure at Madame Tussauds Budapest. Photo: Hungaria Koncert, via Tiqets
  • Two visitors jumping on a set with a floor-to-ceiling LED wall at Madame Tussauds Budapest. Photo: Hungaria Koncert, via Tiqets
  • The columned ticket hall of Madame Tussauds Budapest inside Palazzo Dorottya, with visitors at the desks under the palace ceiling. Photo: Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Matthias Church

Memento Park

Rudas Thermal Bath

  • The octagonal pool of the Turkish bath at Rudas, under a stone dome on pillars, with a bather sitting at the edge. Photo: Rudas Bistro, via GetYourGuide
  • The rooftop panorama pool at Rudas Thermal Bath under a white ribbed canopy, with Elisabeth Bridge and Gellért Hill's cliffs behind. Photo: Rudas Bistro, via GetYourGuide
  • Neck showers pouring into a warm pool in the wellness section at Rudas Thermal Bath. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wooden benches and lamps in a Finnish sauna in the sauna world at Rudas Thermal Bath. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The arcaded swimming hall at Rudas Thermal Bath, lit at night, with the pool empty. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The terrace of Rudas Bistro at night, with tables, plants and string lights, and Elisabeth Bridge lit up behind. Photo: Rudas Bistro, via GetYourGuide
  • Rudas Thermal Bath seen across the Danube, a long yellow building on the Buda embankment below the cliffs of Gellért Hill. Photo: Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • The arcaded 19th-century swimming hall at Rudas Thermal Bath, lit at night. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

St. Stephen's Basilica

  • Main photo: West front of St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, with its two bell towers and central dome. Photo: Anthony, via Unsplash
  • Looking straight up into the dome of St. Stephen's Basilica, with Károly Lotz's mosaic of God the Father at the centre. Photo: David Xeli / Unsplash
  • The sanctuary and main altar of St. Stephen's Basilica, with the marble statue of King Stephen under its canopy. Photo: ian kelsall / Unsplash
  • The neo-Gothic reliquary holding the Holy Right, the mummified right hand of King Stephen, lit inside its glass case. Photo: Prolete / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • View west from the Panorama Terrace of St. Stephen's Basilica, between the two bell towers, over the square and along Zrínyi utca towards the Buda Hills. Photo: via Tiqets
  • Gilded monstrances in a display case in the Treasury of St. Stephen's Basilica. Photo: via Tiqets
  • The gilded case and pipes of the great organ of St. Stephen's Basilica. Photo: Edo / Unsplash
  • The west front of St. Stephen's Basilica seen from Szent István tér, with the steps up to the main entrance. Photo: Linda Gerbec / Unsplash

Széchenyi Chain Bridge

  • Main photo: The Széchenyi Chain Bridge lit up at night over the Danube, with Buda Castle on the hill behind. Photo: venson0105, via Pixabay
  • The Széchenyi Chain Bridge seen from Castle Hill, with pedestrians on both pavements, the two Buda lions in the foreground and the dome of St Stephen's Basilica beyond. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • The head of one of the Chain Bridge lions seen from below, its jaws open and the tongue visible inside the mouth. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • The Buda river pier of the Chain Bridge seen head on from Clark Ádám tér, with its arched gateway, the chains running down to the deck and a lion on its plinth at each side. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • The Széchenyi Chain Bridge lit at dusk, its chains picked out in warm white light, with the Gresham Palace and the dome of St Stephen's Basilica on the Pest bank behind. Photo: Jorge Franganillo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • A blue BKK bus turning onto the Chain Bridge at the Buda end, with taxis on the roadway and cars circling the Clark Ádám tér roundabout. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • A yellow taxi driving off the Chain Bridge at the Pest end between the two lions, with people walking on the pavements either side and Castle Hill behind the river pier. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • The Zero Kilometre Stone on Clark Ádám tér, a nought-shaped stone sculpture on a paved circle, with the funicular's track climbing Castle Hill behind it. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • A Chain Bridge lion on its plinth, with the sculptor's name carved on the plinth edge and a gilded inscription along the side below it. Photo: Christo / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • The Chain Bridge in 1945, one river pier still standing with the broken chains hanging into the Danube and the deck gone, Matthias Church and Fisherman's Bastion on Castle Hill behind. Photo: Fortepan 2075 / Wikimedia Commons, public domain
  • A river pier of the restored Chain Bridge lit at dusk, showing the gateway arch, the chains, the lamps and the pavement running round the outside of the stonework. Photo: Pierre Blaché / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Széchenyi Thermal Bath

  • Main photo: Outdoor pools and yellow Neo-Baroque wings of Széchenyi Thermal Bath in Budapest. Photo: Linda Gerbec, via Unsplash
  • Bathers in the Széchenyi outdoor thermal pools on a sunny day, the yellow Neo-Baroque wings behind. Photo: Linda Gerbec / Unsplash
  • Bathers in the outdoor leisure pool at Széchenyi Thermal Bath, some riding the circular whirling corridor in the middle, with the yellow bath buildings behind. Photo: Aida / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
  • Swimmers in the 50-metre outdoor lap pool at Széchenyi Thermal Bath, with the yellow domed wing behind. Photo: Zairon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Bathers in an indoor thermal pool at Széchenyi Thermal Bath, under arches on red marble columns. Photo: Zairon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Sparty at Széchenyi Thermal Bath: a crowd in the outdoor pool under purple and blue lights, with projections across the floodlit bath building. Photo: Sparty, via GetYourGuide
  • Performers in mirrored costumes on the poolside at Sparty, with the crowd in the water behind them. Photo: Sparty, via GetYourGuide

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