House of Terror
60 Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
The building at 60 Andrássy Avenue has been a place of terror under two different regimes, and now it is a museum about both.
Hungarian Parliament Building
1-3 Kossuth Lajos tér, District V, Budapest, 1055, Hungary
This building took seventeen years to construct, used forty million bricks, half a million precious stones, and forty kilograms of gold — and the architect who designed it never saw it finished.
Liberty Square
Szabadság tér, District V, Budapest, 1054, Hungary
Liberty Square is one of the most politically charged public spaces in Europe, and most tourists walk right past it.
Memento Park
Balatoni út, District XXII, Budapest, 1223, Hungary
When the Communist regime fell in 1989, Hungarian cities were left with a practical problem: what do you do with forty-two giant bronze and stone statues of Lenin, Marx, Engels, and assorted Communist heroes? Most Eastern European countries melted them down or smashed them.
Explore politics in Budapest
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