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Budapest


This chain of pawn and second-hand shops, with a number of branches around town, is a fun place to browse for trinkets and treasures, especially if you don’t have time to get to the Ecseri Piac flea market. Check out this branch for china, textiles, artwork and furniture.


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1. Margaret Bridge

0.29 MILES

Renovated Margaret Bridge introduces the Big Ring Rd to Buda. It's unique in that it doglegs in order to stand at right angles to the Danube where it…

2. Pinball Museum

0.29 MILES

This quirky museum housed in a basement is one of Budapest's hidden attractions. It’s home to 140 vintage pinball museums – yes, you can play all but the…

3. Parliament Visitors' Centre

0.31 MILES

The underground Parliament Visitors' Centre to the north of the Parliament building has reams of information and sells tour tickets. There's also a large…

4. Kossuth Lajos tér Lapidary

0.35 MILES

Assorted sculptures and other stones from the Parliament building on display in a lapidary below VI Kossuth Lajos tér.

5. Kossuth Lajos tér

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Northwest of Szabadság tér, this square is the site of Parliament, Budapest’s most photographed building. The square reopened in 2014 after being restored…

6. Parliament

0.41 MILES

The Eclectic-style Parliament, designed by Imre Steindl and completed in 1902, has 691 sumptuously decorated rooms. You’ll get to see several of these and…

7. Nyugati Train Station

0.42 MILES

The large iron-and-glass structure on Nyugati tér is the 'Western' train station, built in 1877 by the Paris-based Eiffel Company. In the early 1970s a…

8. Szent István Park

0.42 MILES

St Stephen's Park is home to a Raoul Wallenberg memorial portraying a warrior doing battle with a snake (evil). Erected in 1999 and titled Kígyóölő …