TOP 5 most unique attractions in Budapest that are unrivalled in Europe – PHOTOS
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If you are looking for a special experience when visiting the Hungarian capital, you should not miss these unique attractions that you will not find anywhere else in Europe. Are you ready for the visual journey?! 😉
Hungarian Railway Museum
Few may know that the Hungarian capital gives home to Europe’s largest open-air railway entertainment park. The Hungarian Railway Museum is awaiting visitors from Tuesday to Sunday in Budapest’s 14th district. The park offers 100 railway curiosities on 70,000 m2. Among them are steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, passenger cars, and construction machinery. In addition, visitors can also take part in interactive activities on the nostalgic diesel locomotives.
The Railway Historical Park will be open to visitors free of charge on the following days in 2022: 30 April, 1 May, 19 June, 27 July, 20 August, 11 September, 23 October, and 1 November. Accordingly, it is an ideal programme for the upcoming weekend. On the other days of the year, adult tickets are HUF 2,000, and children’s tickets are HUF 1,000.
Budapest Pinball Museum
As Hungarian news portal Funzine reports, the Pinball Museum in Budapest’s 13th district is one of the top favourites of foreign tourists visiting the country. The largest permanent interactive museum in Europe opened in 2014. Here, we can find slot machines from the 19th century, as well as modern pinball machines of all periods, covering almost 400 square metres.
In addition to watching the slot machines, you can also touch and try them for an even more perfect guest experience. Budapest’s Pinball Museum awaits visitors from Wednesday to Sunday. In addition to daily visits, the gallery can also be rented for private events.
Museum of Sweets and Selfies
Besides nostalgic exhibitions, the Hungarian capital hosts modern themes as well. Europe’s first interactive selfie museum is located in Budapest. Since its inauguration in 2018, the museum is particularly popular with foreigners. Thanks to the great success, one year later, another candy and selfie museum, Bubbles, was opened nearby.
Westminster Hall, an integral part of the UK Parliament building dates from 1094. The gothic revival building known as the UK Parliament building but more properly called The Palace of Westminster was begun in 1840 and finally finished around 1870. It is often thought that Imre Steindl was heavily influenced by the design of the Palace Westminster, designed by Barry and Putin. So the Hungarian parliament building is not that old and some might say, a ‘copy’. Just like the Chain Bridge is a scaled up version of an identical bridge built in Marlow, in the UK – designed by the same person, William Tierney Clark – that opened in 1832, 8 years before construction even started on the Chain Bridge.
Apologies: Typo: PUGIN, not ‘Putin’. But whatever, Budapest is a late c19th and early 20th Disneyworld. Everything is fake. Nothing is that old, it is just made to look that way.
“Pevsner”s acrid comments about one of Europe’s oldest and magnificent cities shows how envious some are. Maybe his home town doesn’t live up to the grandeur of Budapest!