Budapest - City Woodland Park

(Local Name: Városliget) The Városliget (City Woodland Park) with its pretty lake, situated to the north-east of the inner city, is one of the most popular recreation sites for local people and visitors alike. Extending over more than 1sqkm/0.8sqmi, and originally marshland, the park was laid out in the 19th C to designs by the French landscape gardener Nebbion. The broad Károly-Kós Promenade, which is open to traffic, passes through the northern part of the park. Numerous cultural and recreational facilities have developed here over the years - two large art museums, the Zoological-Botanical Garden, a pleasure park, the Civic Circus, the Széchenyi Baths, Vajdahunyad Castle, a garden for the blind, sports halls and games and sports grounds.