In central Pest, this Goliath has everything you could possibly want or need, with 400 shops, telecom outlets, large indoor fountains and the 230-room Hilton Budapest West End.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

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1. Nyugati Train Station

0.16 MILES

The large iron-and-glass structure on Nyugati tér is the 'Western' train station, built in 1877 by the Paris-based Eiffel Company. In the early 1970s a…

2. Lindenbaum House

0.23 MILES

The first Hungarian architect to look to art nouveau for inspiration was Frigyes Spiegel, who designed this block at the northern end of VI Izabella utca…

3. Pinball Museum

0.25 MILES

This quirky museum housed in a basement is one of Budapest's hidden attractions. It’s home to 140 vintage pinball museums – yes, you can play all but the…

4. Lehel Church

0.32 MILES

On Lehel tér you’ll see the twin spires of this 1933 copy of a celebrated 13th-century Romanesque church now in ruins at Zsámbék, 33km west of Budapest.

5. Lehel Market

0.42 MILES

This is a great traditional market housed in a hideous boatlike postmodern structure designed by László Rajk, son of the communist minister of the…

6. House of Terror

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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…

7. Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum

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This wonderful little museum is housed in the Old Music Academy, where the great composer Liszt lived in a 1st-floor apartment for five years until his…

8. Szent István Park

0.57 MILES

St Stephen's Park is home to a Raoul Wallenberg memorial portraying a warrior doing battle with a snake (evil). Erected in 1999 and titled Kígyóölő …