Lonely Planet Pocket Budapest

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788685535
• Print ISBN:
  9781786578457

Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

This neighbourhood takes in Erzsébetváros (Elizabeth Town) and most of Terézváros, including well- and high-heeled Andrássy út, the long, dramatic and very chic boulevard that slices through Terézváros. It hosts a large percentage of Budapest’s accommodation at all levels, restaurants serving everything from Chinese and Indian vegetarian to French and Serbian, and the city’s hottest nightspots.

Pipe organ at Liszt Music Academy | POSZTOS / SHUTTERSTOCK ©

The Short List

AGreat Synagogue Marvelling at the exotic architecture of what is the largest Jewish house of worship in Europe.

ALiszt Music Academy Attending a concert at the city’s most important (and beautiful) classical-music venue.

AAndrássy út Strolling along this gracious tree-, shop- and sight-lined boulevard, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Getting There & Around

m M1/2/3 Deák Ferenc tér, M1 Oktogon, M2/4 Blaha Lujza tér and Keleti pályaudvar, M2 Astoria.

j VII Erzsébet körút for 4 or 6 to Buda or the rest of Pest’s Big Ring Road; 47 and 49 are for western Erzsébetváros.

g VII Wesselényi utca and Dohány utca for 74 to the Little Ring Road or City Park.

Top SightGreat Synagogue

Budapest’s Great Synagogue, with its red-and-yellow brick facade and two enormous Moorish-style towers, is the largest Jewish house of worship in the world outside New York City, seating 3000 worshippers. Built in 1859, the Neolog (or Conserva...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Budapest
• Top Sights
• Eating
• Four Perfect Days
• Need to Know
• Budapest Neighbourhoods
• Castle District
• Gellért Hill & Tabán
• Memento Park
• Óbuda
• Aquincum
• Touring the Buda Hills
• Belváros
• Parliament & Around
• Margaret Island & Northern Pest
• Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter
• Southern Pest
• City Park
• Survival Guide
• Language
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writer