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Castle Bus
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The funicular railway
takes passengers from
the Chain Bridge to
Buda Castle. Stepping
out from the funicular,
there is the impressive
building of the Sándor
palace, the headquarters of the Offices of the President of the
Republic and a neo-baroque wrought-iron gate with a sculpture
of the Hungarian national bird, the turul. Budapest Card discount
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Dísz Square is the
Southern gate of the
citizen’s quarter of
the Buda Castle district.
The name of the
square comes from the
parades (in Hungarian:
“díszfelvonulás”),
which were held by the military command, the headquarters
of which were here after 1686.
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Szentháromság
Square is the main
square of the Castle
District. Several historic
buildings and
monuments can be
found here: the Buda
City Hall, the Fishermen’s
Bastion, the Mathias Church and the Hungarian Culture
Foundation.
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From here, the
Museum of Military
History is just a few
steps away, introducing
Hungarian military
history through displays
of collections of
several hundred thousands
of arms, uniforms, coins, flags and other artefacts.
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To can be found
near the square is
the Heart of Jesus
Church of Városmajor,
an extraordinary
piece of Hungarian
church architecture
and an excellent example of the Bauhaus style, which was
characteristic of the period between the two world wars. The
upper part of the bell tower consists of aerial cubicles, which
can also be well seen from Moszkva Square.
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Városmajor Open Air Stage
Clark Ádám tér
Donáti utca
Dísz tér
Szentháromság
tér
Bécsi kapu
tér
Ostrom utca
Moszkva tér