The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Castle Hill
Budapest
- 1
Buda Castle
Hilltop royal palace district with museums and sweeping Danube views. The medieval royal seat was rebuilt after Ottoman and Habsburg periods and now anchors Budapest's UNESCO riverfront.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Fisherman's Bastion
Fairytale terrace and lookout above the Danube beside Matthias Church. Built in the late nineteenth century as a decorative monument, it frames one of Budapest's classic panoramas.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current operator pricing
- Start time
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Parliament and basilica
Budapest
- 1
Hungarian Parliament Building
Neo-Gothic riverside parliament and one of Hungary's defining landmarks. Completed at the turn of the twentieth century, it symbolised the restored Hungarian state within the Austro-Hungarian era.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
St. Stephen's Basilica
Grand city basilica with a panoramic dome terrace and important national relics. Built between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became one of Budapest's central ceremonial churches.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Entry may be free for worship, with charges for towers, museums or special areas
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Szentendre and Visegrád
Danube Bend
- 1
Szentendre Historic Centre
Colourful baroque riverside town known for galleries, lanes and small museums. Serbian, merchant and artist communities helped shape Szentendre's distinctive townscape after the Ottoman period.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Visegrád Citadel
Hilltop fortress with commanding views over the Danube Bend. The stronghold guarded an important royal and strategic corridor from the Middle Ages onward.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
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Northern heritage
Eger
- 1
Castle of Eger
Historic hilltop fortress closely tied to Hungary's defence against the Ottomans. The 1552 siege became a national legend and the castle remains one of Hungary's key patriotic sites.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
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- 2
Eger Historic Centre
Compact baroque centre with church towers, squares and a laid-back spa-town feel. Eger's urban fabric reflects rebuilding after Ottoman rule and the rise of the bishopric and wine trade.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Entry may be free for worship, with charges for towers, museums or special areas
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Caves and valley scenery
Miskolc area
- 1
Miskolctapolca Cave Bath
Thermal bathing complex set within natural cave chambers. Its unusual cave environment makes it one of Hungary's most distinctive spa experiences.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission charged
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Lillafüred and Hámori Lake
Picturesque resort valley with palace hotel, hanging gardens and a long forest lake. Developed as a mountain retreat in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lillafüred remains a classic excursion area.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
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Wine region
Tokaj
- 1
Tokaj Historic Wine Region
Cellars, vineyard hills and wine culture in Hungary's best-known historic wine area. Tokaj's noble sweet wines gave the region world fame and UNESCO recognition as a continuing cultural landscape.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
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- Start time
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Puszta and city
Debrecen / Hortobágy
- 1
Hortobágy National Park
Hungary's iconic puszta landscape of grasslands, wetlands and pastoral traditions. UNESCO recognises Hortobágy as a cultural landscape shaped by centuries of low-intensity grazing and wetland use.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Usually free or low-cost, though parking or special services may charge
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Debrecen Great Reformed Church
Defining church and civic symbol in Hungary's second city. Debrecen's identity as a major Reformed centre is closely tied to the Great Church and surrounding square.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Entry may be free for worship, with charges for towers, museums or special areas
- Start time
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Abbey and shore
Lake Balaton
- 1
Tihany Abbey
Benedictine abbey and hilltop village with one of Lake Balaton's signature panoramas. Founded in the eleventh century, the abbey is central to both Hungarian monastic history and Balaton identity.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Entry may be free for worship, with charges for towers, museums or special areas
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Balatonfüred Historic Centre
Classic lakeside resort quarter with promenade, villas and marina atmosphere. Balatonfüred became a fashionable nineteenth-century spa and social centre around its mineral springs and lakefront.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission charged
- Start time
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Southern city culture
Pécs
- 1
Pécs Cathedral and Old Town
Southern Hungarian city centre with cathedral, mosque heritage and Mediterranean feel. Pécs reflects Roman, medieval, Ottoman and modern layers in one of Hungary's richest urban ensembles.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Entry may be free for worship, with charges for towers, museums or special areas
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Zsolnay Cultural Quarter
Creative quarter in former ceramic factory buildings with exhibitions and design heritage. It reuses the industrial legacy of the Zsolnay family, whose ceramics became internationally famous.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
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Return via spa or palace
Budapest
- 1
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Historic thermal bath complex famous for outdoor pools and yellow Neo-Baroque architecture. Opened in the early twentieth century, it helped define Budapest's international reputation as a spa capital.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission charged
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Royal Palace of Gödöllő
Elegant baroque palace associated with Empress Elisabeth and landscaped grounds. Built in the eighteenth century, it later became one of the favourite Hungarian residences of the imperial couple.
- Duration
- 120 minutes suggested
- Price
- Admission normally charged for the main visit
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.