Basilica Budapest
Posted in Budapest Info by arpiboy on October 14th, 2006 
St. Stephen’s Basilica Budapest
The Stephen’s Basilica is largest church in Budapest. Its 96 meter high dome affords a view of over virtually the entire Budapest.
Building started in 1851 and then in 1867 the work was taken over by Miklos Ybl the greatest architect of the day and finally concluded in 1905 by Jozsef Kauser. The neo-Classical building holds the greatest reliquary of the Hungarian People: the mummified arm, the Holly Right, of King Saint Stephen after whom the Basilica is named. Among the church’s famous works of art and sculptures by Alajos Strobl and a painting by Gyula Benczur: St Stephan dedicating the country to the Virgin Mary.
Weekday guided tours in English: 9:30-11 am, 2-3:30pm (registration: +36 20 527-5329 cell phone)
Guided tours including visits to the tower: adults HUF 1600, students/pensioners: HUF 800.
Admission of the Tower for a 360 panorama of Budapest: adults HUF 500, students/pensioners: HUF 400.
Address: Budapest downtown 5th district Szent Istvan square (ter)
Tel: +36 1 317-2859
Open: daily 9am- 5pm (no visitors from noon on Saturdays due to weddings, and until 1pm on Sundays due to mass) No charge to visit the Basilica Budapest.
