Matthias Church (Mátyás Templom) Address: Szentháromság tér 2. Budapest I. ker. Phone: 00-36-1-355-5657 Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9am – 5pm, Sat 9am – 1pm, Sun 1-5pm Prices: from 300 to 1000 HUF See the Matthias Church on the Budapest Tourist Map: the church is indicated with a red balloon icon in the middle. Click to View [...]
St Stephen’s Basilica (Szent István-bazilika) was built between 1850 and 1905 in neoclassical style based on the plans of József Hild, who could not see the complete church as he died in 1867. Miklós Ybl took over overseeing the works, who could not see the completion either, as he died in 1891. Eventually it was [...]
Music, love and Budapest folded in a nice Yiddish tune performed by Karsten Troyke. Here is the lyrics and the video under the lyrics. As one user on YouTube remarked “There is whole line in Polish language sung : “Ja cię kocham a ty śpisz !” /I love you and you fall asleep !/.” Now, [...]
If you are a Bartok fan and you like time travel in a beautiful environment in the tranquil part of Budapest, you must see Bela Bartok’s house turned into a museum, now called the Bela Bartok Memorial House. The good thing is that it is more than a museum: in 1981, there was a concert [...]
There is a wide range of traditional Hungarian musical instruments, from simple ones like the ‘doromb‘ to more complicated ones like the concert cimbalom (or cymbalom) and the Hungarian bagpipe called Magyar Pipe. See these instruments in action in the following song performed by Bea Palya and her Quintet – the host of the show [...]