Budapest
Our dentist clinic is located in the heart of Budapest, which is one of Europe's most beautiful capitals. The city can be found on the two banks of the river Danube that separates and connects the hilly Buda mountains and the flat Pest side. The view of Buda is characterized by the royal castle, situated on the top of the hill in the Castle District.
Visitors are attracted by the gothic, baroque memorials and the picturesque alleys, streets.
At Pest side gorgeous shopping streets and the 19th . century's civilian buildings can be found. In the whole year Budapest is rich in international level cultural programs from the wide range of classic- and modern music concerts, interesting continual and periodic exhibitions.
It is also not by an accident that the Hungarian cousine is world famous. For the visitors it is a must to try the specialities of Hungarian food.
Weather:
Budapest has a temperate continental climate.
Usually December and January are the coldest, while the hottest months are July and Aug.
The mean temperature in the hottest mount could be 28-30 C, while in cold winter temperature may drop to -25 C.
The sunny hours in Hungary from April to September are more than 8 hours/day.
Time Zone
Current time zone is the Central-European time in Hungary: GMT + 1 hour
In Hungary has a summer time from March to end of October: GMT + 2 hour
Hungarian public holidays and special events
National holidays: 15 March., 20 Aug., 23 Oct., 1 May.
Public and catholic holiday: New Year day ( 1 Jan ). Eastern Sunday and Monday, Pentecost Sunday and Monday (50 days after Easter). All Saint Day ( 1 Nov )., and the Christmas.
Electrical standard
Hungary electrical current is 220 V/ 50 Hz and plug right under the European Union standard.
Phone
The public phones are coin or card operated.36 is the country code for Hungary after that area code needed and the last number the phone number.
Calling from Hungary first 00 number needed and the country code than the phone number.
Changing Money
Hungary is a member of the European Union, but they have not started with Euro yet.
The basic unit of currency is the forint ( HUF ) .Coins come in denominations 5, 10,20,50,100 ft, and the banknotes comes of 200,500,1000,10.000 and 20.000 ft.
Exchanging money in Hungary and in Budapest only permitted in licensed places, authorized change booth or bank.
Do not take a risk of changing money on the street, it is illegal! Most bank in Budapest have 24 hours banknote exchange ATMs. Besides this there are many credit card and cash card ATMs could be fined. Any bureau de change has to have the current money exchange rates clearly displayed.
Keep your exchange receipt in a safe place until you depart Hungary!
Taxi
Taxi cup plate number is yellow color, and top of the car fined a taxi sign. Taxi can be hailed in the street, they are for hire only if the Taxi sign is lit up. If you are ordering by phone ,give the address , your name, and the phone number. English is almost always understood.
The driver gives you the bill right away after the transfer. The tip is usually 10% of the transfer price.
Most famous sights
Fisherman's Bastion
Is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style on the Castle Hill in Budapest. It was designed and built between 1890-1905 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek. The Bastion takes its name from the guild of fishermen.
From the towers and the terrace a panoramic view exists of the city.
Matthias Church
The real name of the church is the " Church of the Blessed Virgin in Buda ", but it is universally known as the Matthias church.
It's popular name derives from the fact that the great Hungarian King Matthias held both of his weddings here. Originally it was the church of the German burgers.
The main eastern gate and the long apse are from the 13th century. The central part of the church was built around 1400.
Turkish times all the furnishings were removed and all the decorated walls whitewashed. Lather it was converted into a Baroque church and by the middle of the 19th century it looked rather miserable.
Buda castle/Royal palace
Buda castle or called Royal palace one of the most important symbol of the Hungarian history. After the Turkish time it was the residence of the Habsburg dynasty. They never lived only stayed here when they visited Buda. Between the 13th and 20th century the building was destroyed different times, but always had been rebuilt. The present neo-Baroque appearance of the Palace is from the late 19th century, it was built after World war II. There are fined today Historic Museum of Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, and the National Library.
Váci street
The heart of Budapest is Vaci street between Vörösmarty Square and Elizabeth Bridge until the Vámház boulevard. The street gained its status in the mid-19th century when the original small buildings and shops were replaced by neo-classical and electrical apartments, department- store, internationale trade center and hotel located here, making Vaci street another Symbol of Budapest. It is important Vaci út and Vaci utca is two different street.
Dunakorzó
When viewed from the river in the second half of the 19th century, neo-classical Pest was hidden large hotels.
Here, on the river bank stood the Carlton, the Bristol, The the Hungaria and the Ritz.
The korzó became popular for promenading until tram tracks were laid along the old walk.
Chain Bridge
The bridge was built between 1842-49.It was by far the best engineering achievement. The bridge is connected the Buda castle and the Pest side of the river, witch was middle of the political life.
The bridge destroyed in the World War II, but the 100 years anniversary of the bridge
was rebuilt. These symbol of the city since 1999 lighting better than ever. With behind the Buda castle most beautiful monument giving appealing vision to visitors.
Cable-car (sikló)
With track almost 100 meter long, and a gradient 48 %.The cable car was opened for service in 1870.
The idea was to provide cheap transport for clerks working in the castle district.
From the Cable car you can admire most beautiful view of the city.
Basilica
The largest church in the city, it can hold 8.500 people.
The dome is 96 meter high. There can find the Holy Dexter, the right hand of St. Stephen King of Hungarians (1000-1038) is the most revered relic of the Hungarian Catholic Church.
Parlament
Work on the Parlament started in 1885 and an average of thousand people per year worked on it for 17 years. House of Parlament is 268 meter long and 118 meter wide. The spire reaches 96 meter above the ground. There are 691 rooms, and the length of all the stairs together is about 20 kilometeres.
It is the workplace of Hungarian Govorement.
Margaret Island
The Island, now one of Europe's finest parks. There are more than 10.000 trees on the island, most of them plane trees.
Length of 2,5 kilometer a width of 500 meter at the widest point, it can be strolled through in about 2 hours at a leisurely pace. It is well worth spending half a day here.
The present name was given in honour of Princes Margit , daughter of King Béla IV, she lived in the nunnery on the island.
There are various amenities on the island: a swimming pool, a lido, tennis courts, an open- air theatre a smelly collection of rose, a Japanese and a sculpture garden. There is the famous old Grand Hotel.
Everything which makes the island worth visiting.
Gellert-hill
The beautiful location of Budapest is largely due to a 140 meter high dolomite rock witch descends steeply into the riverbed. From the St Gellért Munument takes 20-25 minutes to climb to the top of the hill, were built the Citadella.
Here fined the 14 meter tall statue of the women holding a palm leaf in her hand is the Statue of Liberty, and commemorates liberation from Fascist rule. Liberty can be seen from all parts of the city.
The Gellért Bath complex containing water from Gellért Hill's mineral hot springs.The bath can be fined the right bank of the Danube close to the Liberty Bridge.
Synagogue
It is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second one in the world. The building has a length of more than 53 meters while its width has 26.5 meters. The style of the Dohány Street Synagogue is Moorish but its design also features a mixture of Byzantine, Romantic and Gothic elements. Two onion-shaped domes sit on the twin octogonal towers at 43 m height. A rose stained-glass window sits over the main entrance. Beside of that could be fined the Jewish museum.
State Opera House
This is the most important building on this walk and one of the most important buildings in the history of Hungarian architecture. Both inside and out, the building is decorated with hundreds of statues and paintings. In the niche to the right of the carriage entrance is a statue of Ferenc Liszt , to the left one of Ferenc Erkel , the father of Hungarian opera. In the niches at the corner of the building at the first -floor level are statues of the muses of opera. The opera Houses is quickly became one of the leading musical center of Europe.
Millennary Monument
Erected in 1896 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the arrival on the Danube plain of the Hungarian invaders from Central Asia. On 36- metre pillar , exactly on the axis of Andrássy street, stands the Archangel Gabriel, who, according to legend ,appeared in a dream to King Stephen , founder of the Hungarian state, and offered him to crown.
The colonnade has two semicircles and is 85 metres wide and 25 metres deep.Notice the symbolic figures on top of the corner pillars. The figures around the pedestal are the legendary " Seven Chieftains " who led their tribes on the conquest of present-day Hungary.
Vajdahunyad Castle
Built the City park with the aim displaying architectural styles of the past, this is a group of faithfully detailed copies of parts of famous buildings of historic Hungary.
Originally it was made from cardboard and wood for the millennial exhibition in 1896 but it became so popular that it was rebuilt from stone and brick. The complex consists of four main parts the Romanesque, the Gothic, the Transitional and the Renaissance/Baroque.
Széchenyi-bath
One of the largest bath complex in Europe.
The baths preserve many bathing traditions. The spacious and light pool halls evoke the bathing culture of the Romans, the tub- baths that of the Greeks.
The sweet rooms, cold baths and saunas found in the various sections evoke the bathing culture of the north.
The bath has two-million visitors in a year.
