Budapest: the Belváros
The Belváros – or Inner City – is the hub of Pest with many shops and cafés. We passed through it several times on our way to and from other places, so the pictures that follow are highlights taken on different days.
Vörösmarty tér
This square, seen above, is the hub of the hub, if you like. It’s dominated by the statue of Mihály Vörösmarty (1800-55), a poet renowned for his hymn to Magyar identity, the first line of which is carved on the pedestal: Be faithful to your land forever, oh Hungarians.
Decorated buildings
I can’t now remember where many of the buildings and monuments depicted in the rest of the post were! This beauty has panels depicting the four seasons.
This gorgeous art deco panel of Our Lady, Patron of Hungary, is on Szervita tér.
These are on Váci utca.
And this is the Great Market Hall.
Churches
There were many churches in the area, but we only seem to have pictures of these two, the Protestant Church and the Servite Church.
Statues and fountains
As usual in Budapest, we found many delightful examples.
And, finally, that is the end of my Budapest diary. Since we were there in March we have been accumulating many Scottish photographs so the next few posts will be closer to home.
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Budapest is such a fantastic city to explore…love it.
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We loved it too.
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Beautiful. Everythign is beautiful, but I particularly like the plaza. It looks like such a scenographic place.
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It’s quite hard, looking back, to name everything when you have heaps of photos. You obviously had a good time though. 🙂 :0
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Yes, an amazing time.
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I’m glad you enjoyed our capital!
If you don’t mind, I would like to correct one tiny mistake: it’s belváros, not belvarós 🙂 . I hope you’re not mad at me for correcting you, and that you will come visit again in the future.
Thank you for sharing your trip!
Petra
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Oops! Thank you for pointing that out. I’ll go back and correct it shortly.
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Now sorted! Thanks again.
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You’re welcome!
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It’s enjoyable going to places where you don’t know much about the history as it’s a fresh slate then with everything new to discover.
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Exactly! And still more to discover.
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What a wonderful trip you both have . . can’t believe it was March when you went feels like only last week you said you were going!
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I know, where has this year gone? I can’t believe that was March either.
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It was a wonderful tour of Budapest, thank you. So many places to see, so little time….
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Thanks Jemima, glad you enjoyed it.
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Budapest seems magnificent, Anabel! This is a very motivational post!
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Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for visiting.
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That four seasons mosaic is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve said it before, but I really think I do need to take another trip to Budapest – I clearly missed so much!
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I’m sure there are lots of quirky museums for you to write about!
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Thanks for sharing your trip to Budapest. I don’t travel nearly as much as I want to, so I really do appreciate posts that show what other countries and cities are like. For now, it will have to do!
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Thanks Ann, so glad you have enjoyed some travel by proxy!
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