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Budapest - City Woodland Park 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.

Must-see attractions nearby:
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.
Transit
Buses 1, 4, 4A, 20, 30, 55

Related Attractions

Széchenyi Baths
Széchenyi baths (Széchenyi-fürdo) in the northern part of Városliget comprises an open-air bath and a covered bath in Neo-Baroque style with steam and normal baths; it is one of the largest buildings of its kind in Europe. The warm water (over 70°C (158°F) comes from a spring discovered in the previous century. The baths are visited by up to two million people a year.
Budapest Tivoli (Pleasure Park)
Every year thousands of visitors come to this pleasure park in the northern corner of the Városliget. It has a giant wheel, a big dipper, an enchanted castle, roundabouts and much more.
Address
Vidám Park
Allatkerti körút 14-16
Budapest, Pest 1146
Hungary
Hours
March 1 to March 31
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open12:0012:0012:0012:0012:0010:0010:00
Close18:0018:0018:0018:0018:0019:0019:00
April 1 to April 30
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open12:0012:0012:0012:0012:0010:0010:00
Close19:0019:0019:0019:0019:0019:3019:30
May 1 to June 30
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open11:0011:0011:0011:0011:0010:0010:00
Close19:0019:0019:0019:0019:0022:0020:00
July 1 to July 31
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Close20:0020:0020:0020:0022:0022:0020:00
September 1 to September 30
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open12:0012:0012:0012:0012:0010:0010:00
Close19:0019:0019:0019:0019:0019:3019:30
October 1 to October 31
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Open12:0012:0012:0012:0012:0010:0010:00
Close18:0018:0018:0018:0018:0019:0019:00
Cost
Admission CostFt 300.00
ChildFREE
All values are in Hungary Forint
Tips
Additional charge for rides.
Transit
Buses 72, 74, 75
Civic Circus
The new building of the Civic Circus, opened in 1971, is situated on the eastern edge of the zoo area, opposite the Széchenyi Baths; it is one of the most popular institutions of its kind in Europe. All the well-known circuses of the world have performed and still perform here.
Kerepesi Cemetery (Pantheon Cemetery)
The Kerepesi Cemetery (Kerepesi temeto; Pantheon Cemetery) just south of East Station is one of the largest in Budapest. Since the 1950s it has been a cemetery of honor in which notable people are buried. The Munkásmozgalmi Pantheon (Pantheon of the Workers' Movement) is a monumental building by József Körner, with artistic details by Zoltán Kiss. The mausoleums of Lajos Kossuth, Lajos Batthyány and Ferenc Deák have places of honor; they were designed by Gerstl and Stróbl, Schickedanz and Gerstner respectively.
Transport Museum
Railway locomotive models unique in Europe, old cars, motorcycle, trams, and models of ships show the development of transportation in Hungary.
Address
Közlekedési Múzeum
Városligeti krt. 11
Budapest, Pest 1146
Hungary
Hours
May 1 to September 30
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Close17:0017:0017:0017:0017:0018:0018:00
October 1 to April 30
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Close16:0016:0016:0016:0016:0017:0017:00
The Szechenyii spa in Városliget, Budapest.
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