Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Budapest, Hungary

Erdélyi Bastion is a bastion at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. It is sometimes called in English the Transylvanian bastion.

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Lutheran Church of Budavár is the oldest Lutheran church of Buda. It was built in 1895 at Vienna Gate Square in the 1st District of Budapest. The first church for the Lutherans of Buda was built by Maria Dorothea, third wife of Palatine Joseph, in 1846, at hu:Dísz tér. The site was taken over by the Ministry of Defence, so a new church was built near Vienna Gate.

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The Vienna Gate is located at the Vienna Gate Square, Buda Castle, in 1st District, Budapest, Hungary. As the name suggests, it was the port connecting the Castle with the highway to Vienna.

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Vienna Gate Square is a public space located in Budapest I. district, in the Buda Castle District, at the junction of Ostrom Street, Táncsics Mihály Street and Nándor Street.

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The Church of Mary Magdalene is one of the oldest churches in the Buda Castle. It was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style. Today, only the tower of the church remains.

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Institute and Museum of Military History. The museum will be closed from May 21, 2023. The Military History Archives and the Military History Library remain open to researchers.

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Ferenc Koszorús is a Hungarian soldier. His best-known military act was the prevention of the so-called "gendarmerie coup" on July 6, 1944, which made it possible to stop the deportation of Budapest's Jews. On March 15, 1991, President Árpád Göncz posthumously promoted him to colonel general.

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Tamás Cseh was a Hungarian composer, singer and actor. He won the Kossuth Prize and also the Liszt Ferenc prize.

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The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle, more commonly known as the Matthias Church, more rarely the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Catholic church located in the Holy Trinity Square, Budapest, Hungary, in front of the Fisherman's Bastion at the heart of Buda's Castle District. According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015, although few references exist. The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was extensively restored in the late 19th century. It was the second largest church of medieval Buda and the seventh largest church of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom.

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The St. Nicholas Dominican monastery stood in the Buda Castle. Its remains can be found with the Nicholas Tower on András Hess Square, integrated into the Hilton hotel building as a Dominican court.

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The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is one of the best known monuments in Budapest, located near the Buda Castle, in the 1st district of Budapest. It is one of the most important tourist attractions due to the unique panorama of Budapest from the Neo-Romanesque lookout terraces. The Fishermen's Bastion's main façade, parallel to the Danube, is approximately 140 meters long, of which the southern aisle is about 40 meters long, the north is 65 meters long, and the ornate central parapet is 35 meters long. Its seven high-pitched stone towers symbolize the seven chieftains of the Hungarians who founded Hungary in 895.

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The parish church of St. Anna in Budapest-Felsővízváros is one of the Roman Catholic churches of the first district of Budapest, the parish church of the northern part of the Buda Watertown, one of the most significant buildings of Batthyány Square, a characteristic element of the view of the Danube bank in Buda. Its construction was started by Kristóf Hamon, master builder from Buda, in 1740, and completed by Máté Nöpauer in 1761.

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The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Pentangle Puzzles in the UK in 1978, and then by Ideal Toy Corp in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer. The cube was released internationally in 1980 and became one of the most recognized icons in popular culture. It won the 1980 German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle. As of January 2024, around 500 million cubes had been sold worldwide, making it the world's bestselling puzzle game and bestselling toy. The Rubik's Cube was inducted into the US National Toy Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Szilágyi Dezső Square Reformed Church is a Protestant church in Budapest. It was built by Samu Pecz from 1893 to 1896.

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The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. The memorial represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

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SMS Leitha or Lajta Monitor Museumship was the first river monitor in Europe and the oldest and also the only remaining, fully restored warship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Currently it is moored on the Danube in Budapest near the Hungarian Parliament Building as a museum ship.

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The headquarters was built between 1888 and 1890 through the intercession of Ferenc Székely and according to the plans of Samu Pecz on its own plot donated by the Capital for the Budapest Unitarian Church. The building also includes the church and the pastoral office of the Budapest Unitarian Parish. The temple was dedicated on October 26, 1890.

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Batthyány's sanctuary lamp is a national monument, located at the corner of Báthory Street and Hold Street in Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary. It sits on the former location of the courtyard of the New Building, where Count Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), the first Prime Minister of Hungary, was executed on 6th October 1849.

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The Muppet Show is a British-American variety sketch comedy television series created by Jim Henson and starring the Muppets. The series originated as two pilot episodes produced by Henson for ABC in 1974 and 1975. While neither episode was moved forward as a series and other networks in the United States rejected Henson's proposals, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet Show for the British station ATV. Five seasons, totalling 120 episodes, were broadcast on ATV and other ITV franchises in the United Kingdom and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1976 to 1981. The programme was produced and recorded at the ATV Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

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Liberty Square is a public square located in the Lipótváros neighborhood of Budapest, Hungary.

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Budapest World Heritage sites are the view of the Danube bank, the Buda Castle District and Andrássy Avenue.

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Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts is an art museum in Budapest, Hungary.

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The Post Museum is the name of the Hungarian museum presenting the history and operation of the post office, which has filiales in the capital, in large cities and in the countryside. The exhibition spaces are maintained by the Postakürt Foundation.

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The Budapest Hall of Art or Palace of Art,, is a contemporary art museum and a historic building located in Budapest, Hungary.

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The Hungarian Agricultural Museum, from its foundation until 1950, is one of the most important museums of the Hungarian Royal Agricultural Museum Budapest, a national specialized museum, located in the XIV. district of the capital, in the City Park, with hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. According to some sources, it is the largest collection of agricultural history in Europe and probably the first agricultural museum in the world.

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The Chapel of Jak, precisely known as St. Ladislaus Chapel of Jak, is a building originally built in the 20th century for non-religious purposes in Budapest, imitating a church. The Chapel of Jaki is part of the Castle of Vajdahunyad and belongs to the Hungarian Agricultural Museum. At the same time, it is administered by the Hungarian Catholic Church and belongs to the church on Kassai Square in district XIV, the Holy Spirit Parish of Budapest-Herminamező.

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The City Park Roller Coaster is one of the oldest working wooden roller coasters in the world. It was built in 1922 and was originally called Mountain Railway. It was the biggest stunt of the English Park and later the Budapest Amusement Park.

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The Museum of Fine Arts is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art.

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Szend Family Church is a church building in Budapest.

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Epreskert Art Colony was an artists' colony in Budapest in the last decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Among the artists who worked and lived there the most important were sculptors György Zala and Adolf Huszár, and painter Árpád Feszty.

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