Its violent history has left Budapest with some Europe’s grandest buildings.  Let us show you: Heroes’ Square, the magnificent Opera House, St Stephen’s Basilica and its bizarre relic, the beautiful main Synagogue, the bustling Central Market and the city’s most important squares before you arrive in historic Buda.

From the Eastern Hordes to the Ottoman Turks and the Hapsburgs to the Soviets, Budapest is a city with a history of repression and foreign rule.  But this has left it with a range a remarkable architecture.  Heroes’ Square was laid out in 896 as part of Hungary’s millennium celebrations and this tour will point over the significance of the statues which line it and tell you about the buildings around it.

We’ll then lead you down Andrassy Avenue, Budapest’s Champs Elysées and tell you about the Opera House and it’s curious Masonic significance.  The next stop is St Stephen’s Basilica where you’ll hear about the right hand of St Stephen and find out what disaster struck this beautiful building just after it was completed.

Budapest has Europe’s largest synagogue and recall its poignant history and tell you what to look out for during your visit.  We then move onto the great museum where you’ll hear about the moving speech by Budapest’s greatest poet Sandor Petoffi.  After an introduction to the city’s vast food market (chicken feet, anyone?) we’ll lead you through the elegant Vorosmarty and Roosevelt Squares, over the famous Chain Bridge which was built by English and Scottish engineers up to historic Buda.