Budapest Historical Sightseeing - Free Walking Tour
Description
This walking tour covers all the major historical sites and attractions of Budapest. Explore and gain a historical understanding which covers 50 points of historical interest. The tour will give you the chance to view, explore, and gain a historical and cultural understanding of the country. The tour covers 50 points of interest. The tour gives an introduction to the arrival of the first Magyar tribes, the Ottomans, the Hapsburg Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, WW1, WW2, The Soviet Occupation, and life in current-day Hungary. Complete with recommendations for the best bars, restaurants, spas, and cultural spots in the city. You can tip the guides as little or much as you wish depending on the experience. There is a booking fee payable to trip adviser. Our tours are fast-moving and our guides are professional historians. We also keep our tour groups small, below 25 people, to allow you to hear and see the guide easily and to have plenty of time to ask questions.
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Itinerary
Stand in the gardens of the National Museum: -See the statue of the mythical turul bird. -Learn about the museum, its collections, and its founder. -Hear about the 1948 uprising. -Discover the secrets of the notorious viii district, once home to grand palaces.
Meet the your guide at 12 Kalvin ter. Our guides are dressed in yellow. The square is French Protestant Reformer John Calvin. the area has places to sit and shelter from the elements.
Stand in the courtyard of Miklós Ybl's unique creation of mixing many styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Moorish, Renaissance, and Romantic elements, all make up the glory of this fading palace.
See the Budapest eye, learn about the history of the square and the location of some of Budapest coolest bars and nightlife.
Pass by this grand building in a French Empire style. Elegant both inside and out, the Astoria Budapest, with its cosmopolitan atmosphere, attracted numerous international stars and cinematic productions, inculding the Josephine Baker Story, directoed by Brian Gibson.
The tour travels through the Jewish quarter and allows participants to learn about the history of the district. From the home to a vibrant Jewish community to a ghetto in the Second World War, in more recent years it has become home to artists and students to bustling tourist areas, filled with independent shops, designers, and bars.
Stand outside this wonderful building and learn why it is named after Hungary's first king!
Spend some time at the Szabadság tér/Liberty Square and see the communist memorial!
The 50000 m2 palace is the largest privately owned historic landmark in Budapest
Find out why Regan is walking away from the parliament looking so happy, and also discover why Bush (statue) is stood waiting for hi.
Stand outside of the building and let yourself be amazed by the outside of the electric/neo-gothic historical building and by the beautiful view of the Danube! Learn about the other buildings of importance on the square including the chocolate museum, the former ministry of Justice, and the agricultural museum.
See the castle and fishermans Baiston, from the Pest side of the river. Learn about the areas history. See St Maytas church with its stunning colored tiled roof and the Hungarian National Palace from afar on the Pest side of the river. See St Margits Island the Gellert Hill from afar on the Pest side and discover their history.
See the chain bridge, learn about the history of the bridge and its reconstruction.
See this incredibly simple and haunting monument of 60 pairs of shoes dedicated dot the holocaust victims who were lined up and shot on the banks.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Not recommended for travelers whom are unable to walk 3 miles.
- We suggets bringing water to drink and sunscreen, umbrellas or warm jackets depending on the weather.
- The tour is best enjoyed by adults and children over the age of 12 years. Younger children are welcome.
- Dogs are not permitted on this tour. However guide dogs are permitted the owner must carry the dogs offical papers with them.
- Metro and bus to Kalvin ter have wheelchair access.
- Please inform us in advance if you need wheelchair access, the guide needs to make 2 slight adjustments to their route to accommodate you.
- We do not offer a hearing induction loop.
Reviews(1,466)
This walking tour was excellent and very informative. I would highly recommend it. We all learned s great deal.
Our guide was Peter, he spoke perfect English, he really engaging, funny and knowledgable answering all of our questions. The tour was very interesting and we saw more of the city than we expected.
Our guide Atilla had great knowledge of the city and got to see all the highlights. Would highly recommend
Brilliant tour, the tour guide (sorry I cannot remember his name) brilliant! Very informative and happy to ask any questions that any of us had. Local knowledge of the areas covered was also given.
Attila was a great guide. He had maps, illustrations and a depth of knowledge about the history of Hungary. We appreciated the pace of the tour and the recommendations for restaurants, cafes and things to do outside of Budapest.
Fully recommend these walking tours as they give a great orientation and overview of a city, before you go off and explore for yourself. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable about Budapest, we felt privileged to have the knowledge of a university lecturer. Information given was clear and concise, with enough extra thrown in. We enjoyed the quirkiness of our guide, but others were shot down when they asked questions. Budapest is AMAZING! We enjoyed ourselves and learnt a lot.
The guide is always very happy to answer relevant questions about Hungary. However the guest asked "Why is Hungary poor when it has George Soros"? The guide did not want to get into an extended political debate which isnt relevant to seeing the city. George Soros is a Hungarian billionaire living in the USA. The USA has many million and billionaire yet it continues to have many people in poverty. Its unfair on the guides. Guests often complain if they guides talk to much about politics and yet it is the guests who constantly want to ask political questions. What ever the guides do it is always wrong. Guide is always trapped.
The tour was very informative, moved at a great pace and the guide was engaging. I have nothing bad to say about this tour. It was a great way to get our bearings in Budapest on our first full day. Would highly recommend this tour. I just wish I could remember our guide’s name. He was lovely.
Excellent! Hands down one of the best tours we’ve ever had, and we have traveled all over the world!
A very informative tour. Victoria, our guide was very knowledgeable and made the tour enjoyable and interesting.
She is really knowledgeable and the tours is really great and becomes better the longer the tours goes on. I learned so much important information about Hungary and Budapest that I have now been sharing with friends since! I thing to keep in mind: Victoria walks and talks fast, of course she will wait for you if you walk slower and you can ask questions if you missed something etc. But if you want a really slow tour and walk really slowly maybe this tour isn't for you
We advertise it as a fast moving tour. In the past guets have complained guides move too slow. The guide keeps her tour on time as advertised 2.5 hours. Victoria is a native English speaker... She is actually speaking slower than she would at home. But to none natives it seems fast.
