This purpose-built 12,500-seat arena named after a local boxing great is where big local and international acts like Lady Gaga, Rod Stewart and Metallica perform.
László Papp Budapest Sportaréna
Budapest
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3.44 MILES
Castle Hill is a kilometre-long limestone plateau towering 170m above the Danube. It contains some of Budapest’s most important medieval monuments and…
26.81 MILES
The largest church in Hungary sits on Castle Hill, and its 72m-high central dome can be seen for many kilometres around. The building of the present…
2.14 MILES
Budapest's stunning Great Synagogue is the world's largest Jewish house of worship outside New York City. Built in 1859, the synagogue has both Romantic…
7.22 MILES
Home to more than 40 statues, busts and plaques of Lenin, Marx, Béla Kun and others whose likenesses have ended up on trash heaps elsewhere, Memento Park,…
2.43 MILES
Budapest’s neoclassical cathedral is the most sacred Catholic church in all of Hungary and contains its most revered relic: the mummified right hand of…
1.92 MILES
The headquarters of the dreaded ÁVH secret police houses the disturbing House of Terror, focusing on the crimes and atrocities of Hungary's fascist and…
2.83 MILES
The Eclectic-style Parliament, designed by Imre Steindl and completed in 1902, has 691 sumptuously decorated rooms. You’ll get to see several of these and…
2.13 MILES
The Hungarian National Museum houses the nation’s most important collection of historical relics in an impressive neoclassical building, purpose built in…
Nearby Budapest attractions
1. Hungarian Institute of Geology
0.47 MILES
To the south of City Park is the Hungarian Institute of Geology, designed by Ödön Lechner (1845–1914) in 1899 and probably his best-preserved work. Check…
2. Salgótarján St Jewish Cemetery
0.82 MILES
To the southeast of Kerepes Cemetery is this five-hectare cemetery established for the city's Jews in 1874. It was full by the turn of the 20th century.
3. National Institute for the Blind
0.96 MILES
One of the most extravagant art nouveau buildings in Budapest is within easy walking distance of City Park. To the southeast of the park is the National…
1.02 MILES
This small museum in the northwestern corner of Kerepesi Cemetery and very close to the entrance offers insights into the city's and nation's approach to…
1.06 MILES
Also known as the Fiume St Graveyard (Fiumei uti sírkert), this is Budapest’s equivalent of London's Highgate or Père Lachaise in Paris. Established in…
1.15 MILES
This fabulous museum exhibits the work of the eponymous art nouveau stained-glass maker Róth (1865–1944) over two floors of the house and workshop where…
7. 1956 Hungarian Revolution Monument
1.31 MILES
This monolithic assembly of gleaming metal and rusting steel columns erected in 2006 to mark the 50th anniversary of the abortive uprising stands on the…
1.31 MILES
City Park is Pest’s green lung, an open space measuring almost a square kilometre that hosted most of the events during Hungary’s 1000th anniversary…