The residents call it (Budapest Metro 1 or yellow line) just “Little Underground”, was built in 1896 as the second underground in Europe after London, it was thus the first on the continent. The opening ceremony was in connection with the 1000 years anniversary of the...
If you get off the train at the Deák Ferenc tér station on metro line 3, you can discover strange and colorful tiles, a kind of tessellation on the middle wall of the station. Although each day many people walk by this mosaic, really nobody knows the meaning of the...
The F4 Object or Rákosi bunker is a formerly secret nuclear shelter under the downtown of Budapest. It is located 39 meters below the surface, approximately in a “H” shape between Kossuth tér and Szabadság tér. It has a direct connection to the Line 2 of the Budapest...
The super secret military hospital and atom shelter was know all through the darkest years of the 20th century. Having survived the revolution of 1956 and the Cold War, the museum beneath the Buda Castle has a more gentle name now, it is called the Hospital in the...
The Castle Hill of Buda is an the average 50-60 meters over the level of the Danube, its main mass is built from marl, and it is covered by so called fresh-water limestone. This limestone strata has a 5 kilometer long cave system, what was established in the middle...
Budapest as the “Capital City of Bathes” is known and certified all over the world. It is a unique natural quality of the city, there are 123 hot water springs along the rupture at the feet of the Buda Hills. These springs are not just giving hot water for the bathes...