Attractions: Sights

This section contains information about Budapest sights: historical and famous buildings, monuments, squares, churches, palaces and castles.

Children's Railway (Gyermek Vasút) is called so because it is operated by children. The kids surely do not drive the locomotive, but they check the tickets, make announcements at the stations and solemnly greet the train full of excited travelers. Children's Railway is a narrow-gauge forest railway with the old locomotive and three carriages. The train goes slowly through the woods up and down Buda hills and stops at the highest point of Budapest, János-hegy (526 m).

The chair lift (Libegő) located at XII. Zugligeti út 93 takes you up János Hill, the highest point of Budapest (526 m). At the top of the hill there is Erzsébet Lookout Tower (Kilátó), built in the beginning of XXth century, offering magnificent view of the city. Char lift operates from 10:00 to 16:00.
X. Nepliget
Tel: 265 0725

The Parliament Building located on the eastern bank of Danube between Lanchíd (Chain Bridge) and Margit híd (Margaret Bridge) was constructed between 1884 and 1902 and it was modeled on the Houses of Parliament in London.

It is easy to find Gellért Hill because it is a hill with a hefty woman on its top seen from almost any point of the city. Actually, Gellért Hill is a huge and not very well groomed park, representing the whole variety of local flora (including even fig trees!). Climbing up the hill, you will (a) know your actual physical condition; (b) get a bird's-eye view of the city and (c) sooner or later, one way or another, reach the Citadella, 1944 Waxworks
Museum and a restaurant.





