Discover Budapest

Budapest is the largest city and the capital of Hungary. It is located downstream of the Danube river between the Transdanubia massif and the Great Plains of Hungary.

History

The current city was created in 1873 by the merger of Buda - the former capital of Hungary. It originates from the site of Aquincum, a Celtic settlement that became the capital of Lower Pannonia during Roman times. 

The Magyars arrived in the region in the ninth century. The Mongols looted Their first settlement point in 1241-1242. The city was then rebuilt and became one of the humanist culture centers from the Renaissance until the 15th century. 

After nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, it continued to develop and reached its peak with the flourishing of the industrial era in the 18th and 19th centuries. Budapest reached the proportions and characteristics of a global city after the merger of 1873 and the city's accession to the rank of the second capital of Austria-Hungary. Marked by the various traces bequeathed by history, Budapest was notably the epicenter of the Hungarian revolution of 1848, of the Republic of the Hungarian councils of 1919, of the operation Panzerfaust in 1944, of the battle of Budapest of 1945 and the 1956 uprising.

The Pearl of the Danube

Considered one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and as the “pearl” of the Danube, Budapest's panorama, the Buda Castle district, Andrássy Avenue, and the Millennium Metropolitan are listed as World Heritage sites. As a major tourist destination, the city attracts more than 4.3 million visitors per year.

The largest city in the country, it is its main political, cultural, commercial, and industrial center. It houses the Hungarian Parliament, the ministerial buildings, the embassies of the country, and the head offices of the companies established in Hungary. Budapest is also the second most populous city in Central Europe, Berlin being the first. It is also considered from the point of view of economic exchanges as an important hub.