Castle District - first walk
Playing time: 55 min. 8 sec.
Spend a couple of quiet hours in the streets of the Buda Castle District. Old houses, churches and the Buda Castle Palace evoke the atmosphere of the 18th -19th centuries, with a little taste of the medieval ambience and town life thrown in. Fancy restaurants and cafés await you.
Price: 5 EuroContent
You may enter the Buda Castle District through the Vienna Gate (Bécsi Kapu) right where the soldiers of the Turkish Empire infiltrated the Castle to take the royal seat of Hungarian kings without a fight.
In the first part of our walk, we go to Vienna Gate Square (Bécsi Kapu Square) and Kapisztrán Square to get the touch of the atmosphere of the castle. You get a great panoramic view from the Tóth Árpád Alley over the less frequently visited part of Budapest.
We can get to know how the Maria Magdolna church got to be a catholic to and a protestant church at the same time. Later it was transformed into a mosque.
We get acquainted with medieval houses in Parliament Street (Orszaghaz utca), walk through Hess András Square, named after one of the first Hungarian printers of Italian origin, and finally arrive at one of Budapest's most emblematic buildings, the Mother Mary Church, or Matthew Church, which witnessed almost the whole of Hungarian history from the top of Castle Hill.
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