This tour takes you through Pest, the busy and lively centre of Budapest on the east bank of the river Danube. In the second half of the 19th century, Budapest become the opulent political, financial and religious centre of the newborn Hungarian nation.
This ornate synagogue is the second largest in the world and a testament to the vitality of Budapest's Jewish community in the 19th Century.
The monumental Parliament at Kossuth Square, the most expensive structure ever built in Hungary at its inauguration, is the symbol of Budapest’s rise in the 19th century.
Built between 1851 and 1905, this revered neoclassical church accommodates 8,500 people and and contains Hungary's most revered Catholic relic: the mummified right hand of the church’s patron, King St Stephen.
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Your tour guides are professors, doctoral students, historians, journalists, art critics, and published authors.