ELTE Fűvészkert
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Ready-made walk · Budapest

Palace District to Kerepesi Cemetery

5 stops · ~3 hr 15 min · 5.1 km

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A longer walk through Józsefváros, starting at the Neoclassical Hungarian National Museum and the Wenckheim Palace, now a grand public library. See Ödön Lechner’s Museum of Applied Arts, find calm in Hungary’s first botanical garden, and finish among the monuments of Kerepesi, Budapest’s most famous cemetery.

The stops, in walking order

  1. ELTE Fűvészkert
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    Stop 1: ELTE Fűvészkert

    ~3 min here

    ELTE Fűvészkert is Hungary’s first botanical garden, now operating as a special educational unit of Eötvös Loránd University in Józsefváros.

  2. Iparművészeti Múzeum
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    Stop 2: Iparművészeti Múzeum

    ~1 hr here

    The Museum of Applied Arts is the building before you, created for a national collection of decorative objects and design.

  3. Wenckheim-palota
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    Stop 3: Wenckheim-palota

    ~3 min here

    Wenckheim Palace is a historic building that now houses the central library of the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library, on Szabó Ervin Square in Budapest VIII District.

  4. Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum
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    Stop 4: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum

    ~1 hr here

    The Hungarian National Museum is the grand building before you, created to preserve Hungary’s history, art, and archaeology.

  5. Fiumei úti sírkert
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    Stop 5: Fiumei úti sírkert

    ~3 min here

    Fiumei úti sírkert is a vast historic cemetery, known in everyday speech as Kerepesi Cemetery.

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