Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
City Park Art Nouveau Buildings
Two of the most extravagant Art Nouveau (Secessionist)
buildings are near the park: the National Institute for the Blind and Ödön Lechner's Institute
of Geology.
Traditional Coffee Houses
New York Café
The city's most extravagant cafe dates from 1894; it has been turned into an
opulent hang-out for tourists and the haves of Pest.
Művész Kávéház
Still homey and down-to-earth after all these years (since 1898!), the 'Artist
Coffeehouse' is the best cafe in town for people watching.
Gerbeaud
Budapest's most fashionable cafe is also its most expensive, but you get what you
pay for: the cakes here are sublime.
Ruszwurm Cukrászda
The city's oldest cafe (1827) and also its tiniest is a positive delight - if
you can manage to get inside the door.
Centrál Kávéház
The
grande dame
of traditional cafes, dating back to 1887, has reclaimed
her title as the place to sit and look intellectual in Pest.
Jewish Heritage
Synagogues
There are three synagogues in what many still call the Ghetto of Erz-
sébetváros: the
Great Synagogue
,
the
Orthodox Synagogue
and the
Rumbach Sebestyén
Sebestyén utca 11; admission 600Ft;
10am-5.30pm Sun-Thu, to 3pm Fri;
M2 Astoria,
4,6); visit the first two.
Hungarian Jewish Museum Rich collection of Judaica dating back to the 3rd century AD,
along with a harrowing exhibit devoted to the Hungarian Holocaust.
Ghetto Wall
A 30m fragment of the original ghetto wall can now be seen at the back of a
courtyard at VI Király utca 15. (
Click here
)
Spinoza Café
If you want to hear live
klezmer
(traditional Jewish music), this is one of the
best places to go.
Fröhlich Cukrászda
This time-warp kosher cake shop and cafe makes and sells old Jewish
sweets like
flódni
(three-layer cake with apple, walnut and poppy-seed fillings).
