Budapest is a lively city and starting with its busy airport it is a place of great emotion and beauty that attracts many tourists from all around the world. It has about two million inhabitants, and the main attraction points are all to be found in the centre.

Budapest was named “The Pearl of the Danube” because of its high buildings and of the magnificence of its numerous bridges.

It is divided in two parts by the Danube River: on one hand you will find the Buda side and on the other the Pest side. Buda is the old town, its buildings are all a little decadent, but it preserves a great charm. Pest is the new modern part, with its elegant streets, its shops and its fashionable cafés; everything looks like a big city from the beginning of the 20st century (around 1900). The best way to start your journey is to go to Buda taking the lovely funicular that goes up the hill to the neighborhood of the fortress, one of the most romantic districts of the capital. From this height you will enjoy a fantastic scenic view over the Danube and the whole city. A little further south is the Royal Palace, which includes the National Gallery where the major Hungarian pieces of art can be found.

Budapest is also known for its spas and its many hot springs, which date back to the Roman times. The most important one is in the Gellert Hotel, built in Liberty style, with its rooms covered with mosaics (symbol of the city). However, if you want to enjoy the atmosphere of a Turkish bath, we suggest you to go to the Kiraly baths, dating back from the mid 1500’s!

Another interesting itinerary includes the famous Pastry Shop Gerbeaud, furnished with original furniture from the eighteenth century. It is the oldest and most famous pastry shop in town. On a sunny day you must sit in the sunny terrace and enjoy the concerts and acts performed in the street.

Budapest has a lot of nightclubs, bars and clubs for all tastes: from the most characteristic such as pubs and taverns to quirky bistros where you can drink the best beers, or taste the delicious Hungarian cuisine. In addition, there are discos and nightclubs for house music lovers. You can for instance visit the Bahnhof, a large and popular disco for both locals and tourists.

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Budapest is an intriguing city, rich in culture and virtuosity. Famous for its many medicinal springs, this great European capital hides another treasure: an enviable cultural life. Thanks to its geographical position and its historical origins, it has a rich variety of arts and cultural buildings. Moreover, the culture in Budapest is not just reserved for a small group of elite people, it’s in everyday life: art, music, literature… Everybody enjoys it.

The Hungarian capital has its own Museum Mile, like many large American cities. On both sides of the Danube River there are long avenues where you’ll find very important things to do with the cultural life in Budapest. The Andrássy Avenue stretches from the Royal Palace to the Municipal Park.

Many of the most beautiful monuments and palaces have become the seat of important museums, concert halls or theatres. In Hungary there are about 1,300 art galleries, museums and private collections, of which 225 are in Budapest.

Budapest possesses a great musical history that ranges from the Ferenc Erkel’s operas, the Franz Liszt piano pieces (very admired in Hungary), up to the folk songs of Béla Bartók (1881-1945) and Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). Today the city hosts one of the most famous classical music festivals in the world: the Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Autumn Festival.

Besides the classic music, in the city it is possible to enjoy a rich offering of cultural programs such as theatre, dance or opera in the Opera of Budapest or in the Erkel Theatre. You can also see the popular operettas and the Kálmán, Lehár and Ábrahám musicals in the Operetta Theatre; or the foreign languages representations in the Merlin Theatre.

Lovers of arts and museums will need more than a day to visit the delights that the city offers. The Museum of Fine Arts is the most representative as it is recorded among the most important museums of Europe. It has an important collection of international art, including the Spanish collection, paying special attention to the Greco paintings and the Flemish, Dutch and graphics collections.

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Budapest acquired the title of “Spa City” in 1934 due to the large number of thermal and curative waters and springs it has: 118 wells and springs which gush 70 million litres of water per day at temperatures between 21 and 80 ° C. The concentration of minerals and elements of these healing waters is perfect for healing ailments.

Budapest baths date back to Roman times, but it was not until the twentieth century when they became popular for treatment of diseases. During the Turkish period (from 1541 to 1686) there were important spas constructed that continue still today.

But the Budapest spas are not just wellness centres. Some of them organize aquatic night parties called “Cinetrip Parties” or “Magic Baths”, where hundreds of young people dance and listen to the best music inside the swimming pools. This way, the spas are turned into spectacular nightclubs full of lights, screens and gogo dancers.

Aside from these parties, most of the public baths are not mixed. Many of them reserve a few days for men and then a few days for women, although there are also some spas in which both sexes can be mixed.

The most famous Budapest Spa Resorts

Gellért Spa (District 4. Kelenhegyi Street, 4)

Timetable: weekdays: from 6.00 to 19.00, weekends: from 6.00 to 17.00

This is one of the oldest and most beautiful spas of Budapest thanks to its spectacular marble columns, its colourful Zsolnay mosaics, its statues, its beautiful stained glass windows and it modernist furniture although the star of the centre is a 700m square atrium with a beautiful glass roof. The spa (located inside the Gellért hotel) has 9 therapeutic pools, an outdoor wave pool, a thermal water pool, a children’s pool and a covered effervescent pool. It also has a sauna and massage services. The composition of its waters includes calcium, magnesium, sulphates and other minerals. There are some references to the use of medicinal waters of Gellért since medieval times, but it was not until 1918 that this construction was completed.
Széchenyi Spa (District 14. Állatkerti Avenue, 11)
Timetable: weekdays from 6.00 to 22.00
This is one of the largest spas in Europe thanks to its 15 pools, 3 large outdoor pools and 12 small covered pools. It was inaugurated in 1913 and it is of Neogothic style. Besides the pools, this resort has some Turkish baths, saunas, massage service and diving pools. One of the main attractions are the chess matches that are disputed in the warmer outdoor pool (37 ° C), where tourists and locals challenge each other to games and spend a pleasant time.

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Along with the arrival of spring, one of the most important festivals of Hungary and one of the most transcendent of Europe comes to Budapest: the Budapest Spring Festival. From March 20th to April 5th, 200 cultural events of various forms and in fifty different stages will take place. Apart from the traditional classic music and jazz concerts, a varied range of theatre programs, film projections, outdoor shows, dance representations, folklore music concerts and other great international events of fine reputation will be added. Don’t miss it! Rent the best Apartments in Budapest and enjoy your time there.

Budapest Spring Festival Program

Friday 20.03.2009
19.00 Emmerich Kálmán: Die Bajadere – Operetta in two parts – Budapest Operetta Theatre
19.00 Botho Strauß: The Park – Hungarian Première – International Theatre Festival – National Theatre
19.30 Joshua Bell and the Camerata Salzburg – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
19.30 Capricious Express Joint Concert of the Capriccio Chamber Orchestra and CimbaliBand – Crossover – Millenáris Teátrum

Saturday 21.03.2009
15.00 Music-Dance-ABC Performance by Tamás Vásáry (piano) and Henriett Tunyogi (dance) Through Children’s Eyes – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
15.00 “Haydn and the Time” – Exhibitions – Museum of Applied Arts
19.00 Emmerich Kálmán: Die Bajadere – Operetta – Musical – Budapest Operetta Theatre
19.30 Oleg Maisenberg and the Kremerata Baltica – Orchestral concerts – Academy of Music
20.00 Orchestra Baobab – Special treats – Millenáris Teátrum

Sunday 22.03.2009
15.00 Let’s go to Rio! Performance by Csaba Méhes and the Brass in the Five wind quintet (première) -Through Children’s Eyes – Millenáris Teátrum
19.00 Puccini: Turandot – Opera – Hungarian State Opera House
19.30 Bartók Evening – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
19.30 Kodály Quartet – Chamber evenings – Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ceremonial Hall, Roosevelt tér

Monday 23.03.2009
19.30 Telekom Orchestra Hungary – Orchestral concerts – Academy of Music
20.00 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester – Special treats – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Tuesday 24.03.2009
19.00 Trey McIntyre Project Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 Music of a Lost World – Special treats – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Wednesday 25.03.2009
19.00 Trey McIntyre Project Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 An Evening with the Hungarian National Philharmonic on the Anniversary of Bartók’s Birth – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
20.00 Budapest Tomkins Vocal Ensemble – Church concerts – Matthias Church

Thursday 26.03.2009
19.00 Trey McIntyre Project Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Friday 27.03.2009
19.30 Szabadi 50 – Orchestral concerts – Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ceremonial Hall, Roosevelt tér

Saturday 28.03.2009
19.00 Puccini: Turandot – Opera – Hungarian State Opera House
19.30 French Melodies with Philippe Jaroussky – Chamber evenings – Academy of Music
20.00 Napoleon ante portas! Church concerts Matthias Church

Sunday 29.03.2009
19.00 Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice, or The Soul of the Philosopher – première – Opera – Hungarian State Opera House
19.30 Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Monday 30.03.2009
19.30 Mahler Chamber Orchestra – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Tuesday 31.03.2009
19.00 The National Theatre Ballet in Prague – Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.00 Haydn: Orfeo ed Euridice, or The Soul of the Philosopher – Opera – Hungarian State Opera House
19.30 Miklós Perényi (cello) and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra – Orchestral concerts – Academy of Music
19.30 Piano Recital by Mika Teranagane, Most Successful Participant of the Franz Liszt Seminar – Sapporo Chamber evenings – Marble Hall of the Hungarian Radio

Wednesday 01.04.2009
19.00 The National Theatre Ballet in Prague – Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 Haydn: The Seasons – Orchestral concerts – Academy of Music
19.30 100-Member Gypsy Orchestra – Folk music, folk dance – Thália Theatre

Thursday 02.04.2009
20.00 Nigel Kennedy Quintet – Special treats – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.

Friday 03.04.2009
19.00 Bangarra Dance Theatre – Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 Cimbalom Recital by Ágnes Szakály “Hommage à Haydn” – Chamber evenings – Festetics Palace, Hall of Mirrors
19.45 Budapest Festival Orchestra – Orchestral concerts – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Saturday 04.04.2009
10.00 28th National Dance House Gathering and Arts and Crafts Fair – Folk music, folk dance – Papp László Budapest Sportarena
19.00 Bangarra Dance Theatre – Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.30 Susan Graham and the Ensemble Matheus – Orchestral concerts – Academy of Music
20.00 Before Palm Sunday In memoriam Gabor Baross – Church concerts – Matthias Church

Sunday 05.04.2009
10.00 28th National Dance House Gathering and Arts and Crafts Fair – Folk music, folk dance – Papp László Budapest Sportarena
11.00 Let’s Set Out to See the World! – Through Children’s Eyes – Kunsthalle
19.00 Bangarra Dance Theatre – Dance – Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre
19.00 Vienna State Opera Mozart: Don Giovanni – concert performance – Opera – Palace of Arts – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

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