Budapest Hungary Photos

On the video it is ME Arpad Domonkos. I like wakeboarding and the weather is getting better in Hungary like Summer. If You like waterskiing or wakeboarding go to Omsz lake (Omszki tó) it is 15 Km far from Budapest only.

On the May 26, 2000, the largest aquarium in Central Europe, 3000 square meter known as the Tropicarium- Oceanarium, opened in Budapest, Hungary.

Ticket Prices:
Adults – HUF 1700
Adults over 62 years and children between 4-14. – HUF 1000

Tropicarium Budapest
Campona Shopping Center
1222 Budapest Nagytetenyi street 37-45
Tel: +36 1 424-3053
Web: www.tropicarium.hu

Parliament of Hungary from Buda bank of the Danube River

The Parliament Budapest is the largest building in Hungary the permanent site of the national assembly, Budapest Parliament sits on the Danube embankment with its entrance looking out over Kossuth Square. The neo-Gothic building is the work of architect Imre Steindl and was constructed between 1884-1904. The Parliament has 691 rooms, is 268 meters long and its cupola rises 96 meters into the air. The staircase is embellished with fine frescoes by Karoly Lotz and sculptures by Gyorgy Kiss. Parliament’s most important work of art the painting “The Conquest” by Mihaly Munkacsy, is in the Munkacsy Room next to the President’s office. Since 2000 the general public has been able to view the Hungarian coronation regalia here: Saint Stephen’s Crown, the scepter, orb and Renaissance sword.

Budapest Parliament tours:
Daily every 15 minutes, groups of minimum 5 people (weekdays 8 am – 6 pm Saturday 8 am – 4 pm, Sunday 8 am – 2 pm); assemble at Parliament Gate number 10.

Daily tours with foreign language guides: English 10 am, noon, 2 pm; German 11 am, 3 pm; French 2 pm; Hebrew 10.30 am, 1.30 pm; Russian 3 pm (Sunday 11 am); Italain and Spanish 11.30 am, 4 pm.

Admission: adults HUF 2300, students HUF 1150, International Student Card accepted, free for citizens of European Union (EU).

A photo about the Budapest Parliament on 23 October 2006 during the Budapest Demonstrations. The whole Kossuth Square was closed from the general public entry.

How to get to the Parliament Budapest by public transport?

line 2 (red one) subway Kossuth ter stop
bus number 15
trolley bus number 70 and 78
tram number 2

Address: Budapest district V. Kossuth Square 1-3
Information: + 36 1 441-4000
Web: www.parlament.hu

The Andrassy boulevard (ut) was the other place of the 50th anniversary of the Budapest revolution of 1956. Andrassy Street is a 2 kilometers long street in Budapest from the Deak Ferenc ter to the Heroes Square in the middle of it there is the Octagon (Oktogon).

Just to understand what was this event all about. 23 of October is one of the biggest national holiday in Hungary. 50 years ago the Hungarians tried to wipe out the communism and Soviet dictatorship from Hungary, but they’ve failed. They did not get any help from USA or other Western European nations. So we had to wait up to 1998 to do so.
Just imagine the suppression in the communism there were no rights to the citizens to speak and do things freely or just go to Western Europe for holiday. We had to wait years to buy a new paper car called Trabant and made in the DDR Eastern Germany.

But the Hungarians wanted to be free and we were the first old country in the socialism who quit from Russia (Soviet Union) and the other eastern block countries followed us. Maybe you see the movies called “The Wall” about the Berlin Wall you can get the picture over it.

So the event was held over a distance of several hundred meters, starting from the Oktogon in the direction of Heroes’ Square.

The 1956 numbers from candles on the street at the Oktogon.

Chajka old soviet limousine car

Chajka inside

Like in the real world. Here with actors and actress

Soldiers. Like a sculpture, they were alive but did not move.

A tank from the past on the Andrassy boulevard

Wall of the Heroes at the House of Terror Museum
Budapest 1956 Revolution events