Museum in Budapest

Museum of Military History
I. Szent Gyorgy ter Wing A of the Royal Palace Budapest
Phone.: 356-9522
Open: Jun-Sep Tue-Sun 10-18h, Oct-Mar Tue-Sun 10-16h
Hungarian National Gallery
I. Szent Gyorgy ter, Wing B,C&D of the Royal Palace Budapest
Phone.: 224-3700
Open: Tue-Sun 10-18h
Statue Park
XXII. Balatoni ut Budapest Hungary
Phone.: 227-7446
Open: 10-night (more…)

Events in Budapest - 2005

Budapest Event January 2005
Ice Skating (October 2004 – February 2005)
R.E.M Concert – Budapest Sport Arena (22nd January 2005)
Urban Portraits Exhibition (30th November 2004 – 3rd April 2005)
Budapest Event February 2005
Anastacia Concert – Budapest Sport Arena (17th February 2005)
Andrea Bocelli Concert – Budapest Sport Arena (26 February 2005)
Budapest Event March 2005
Budapest Spring Festival (18th March – 3rd April)
Revolution Day (15th March)
Titanic International Film Festival 2005 (31st March – 10th April) (more…)

Castle Hill

It’s with good reason that many guidebooks on Budapest open with a chapter on the Castle District. The majority of Buda’s principal tourist sights – which include the Royal Palace, Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias Church – are situated here. You can see here the Buda Royal Castle. This castle has a long history. The first castle was almost completely destroyed in 1686, in the war to recover the city of Buda from the Turks. In 1715 a modest Baroque palace was constructed to replace the Gothic one. The Castle was expanded in the following century, and in 1790 the Palace was almost completed—minor extensions were made later. (more…)

Gellert Hill

Approached from beside the Hotel Gellert on the Buda side of Szabadság Bridge (Map Ref. B6), the Gellert hill, named after Hungary’s first Christian martyr who was rolled down it in a barrel lined with spikes, is crisscrossed by secluded paths with turret-like lookout posts which provide dramatic views of Pest. A point of interest near at the start of your walk is the Cave chapel where the anti-Communist cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty preached to thousands of followers before being arrested and imprisoned in 1948 by the authorities. In 1951 the cave chapel was bricked up and was not reopened until 1989. All paths lead to the summit from where the Statue of Liberty watches over the city. Behind the Statue of Liberty is the Citadella (see Essential Budapest for more).
The hill is named after the priest where he was martyred. The Citadel is a small rounded military castle, built by the Austrians between, 1850 and 1854, which is among the attractions on this hill. The impressive monuments, and the Gellert Baths, are worth a visit. Gellert Hill, Hungary is worth to see!

Budapest Statue Park

The Park of Statues, installed in the suburbs of Budapest, has been presenting since August 1995 a collection of monumental statues, formerly placed in the public places of Budapest according to the instructions and needs of the communist policy.
Totalitarian regimes have always attached importance to dominating and controlling the image of their territories and of the life of their subjects in a total way. For this purpose, one of the best ways is to control history and memory, that is, the past..
Too often history was manipulated, rewritten so as to legitimate existing power and to give it an image that wanted to be positive, while destroying the other history, erasing any trace of a dissenting memory parallel with the official one. In order to exert this absolute control on collective memory, it was forbidden to remember and commemorate anything other than this official memory: “the ideologists of the Communist Parties of Eastern Europe (…) tried to throw a black veil on history, so that the present time of socialism can take more glareâ€? (Miklós Sulyok). (more…)