Danube promenade, Pest side: Parliament to the Great Market Hall
3.7km
3 hEasy
7stops
A flat walk south along the Pest embankment, part of the UNESCO-listed Danube banks, from Parliament past the Shoes on the Danube Bank, the Chain Bridge and the Vigadó to the Great Market Hall.
Best time: Late afternoon into dusk, so you reach the Chain Bridge and the Vigadó terrace as the bridges light up; the market closes at 18:00 on weekdays, so go the other way if you want to shop.
Walk around Kossuth tér; 45-min interior tour if booked. 20 min outside
The seat of the National Assembly, designed by Imre Steindl in neo-Gothic style and opened in 1902. It is the largest building in Hungary, 268 m long, and it keeps the Hungarian…
Holocaust memorial of 60 iron shoes on the embankment. 10 min
Sixty pairs of cast-iron shoes on the embankment, set up on 16 April 2005 by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer. They mark the Jews shot into the river by Arrow Cross militiamen in…
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Széchenyi István tér
Gresham Palace and the Academy of Sciences face the bridge. 10 min
The first permanent bridge over the Danube in Hungary, opened in 1849 and designed by William Tierney Clark. Blown up in January 1945, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1949.
Concert hall of 1865; the 6th-floor terrace faces the castle. 15 min
A concert and ball hall designed by Frigyes Feszl, opened in 1865 on the Danube. Liszt, Wagner, Brahms and Bartók played here; the building was reopened in 1980 after war damage.
Pest's oldest church with an Ottoman mihrab. 15 min
The main parish church of Pest, next to the Elisabeth Bridge, with Romanesque origins; St Gellért was buried here in 1046. It served as a mosque under Ottoman rule, and a mihrab…
Paprika, salami and lángos under the Zsolnay roof. 45 min
The largest and oldest indoor market in Budapest, opened in 1897 and designed by Samu Pecz, with a Zsolnay tile roof. Locals still shop here for paprika, salami, Tokaji and…
