It is a tour full of contrasts and surprises.

Duration

3 hours

About

We run this tour in English 🇬🇧 Dutch🇳🇱 and German 🇩🇪

What are we going to see?

Join us and dive into a time (not so) long bygone and and certainly not forgotten, when one couldn’t easily take pictures without consequences and the concept of bike paths was still entirely foreign.

Let us show you some of the remarkable reminders of communism spread throughout Budapest: old monuments, prefabricated buildings, and old industries that were widespread and popular in the times of communism. This tour will show you both sides of the Danube, Margaret Island and all the central bridges with amazing views.

To freshen up at the end of the tour, the price includes a refreshment at a cute retro café.

Tour highlights

• St. Stephens Basilica: History and Puskas, best soccer player in communism

• Szabadság Tér: The 1956 Revolution, Soviet Monument

• Parliament and Kossuth Square, where the 1956 Revolution against Communist rule started

• Margaret island: Communist monument, Palatinus pools – built to relax the working class

• Obuda prefabricated buildings: destruction of old buildings, biggest socialist style prefab building of Hungary

• Ganz Industrial Museum

• Millenáris Park: steel industry until 1989, now a vivid cultural centre

• Batthány ter: HEV local train station with historic East German railcars

• The Gellért Bath and the Cave Church, which was closed down by the communists

• Great Market Hall and former Karl Marx University

• Vaci utca: only pedestrian shopping area during communism

• Deak Square with the Central Bus Station in Communism, now the Design Terminal