GreenWalks Budapest - Around the City

23/07/2024

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17/11/2023

Budapest, the heart of Hungary, is celebrating its 150th birthday in grand style. In honor of this milestone, the Budapest Transport Center (BKK) is offering a one-day ticket at a throwback price of 150 forints on November 17th. This golden ticket, available exclusively through the BudapestGO app, allows unlimited travel on BKK’s lines within the city’s administrative boundaries.

Budapest celebrates its 150th birthday with grand city-wide celebrations, including special transport tickets, unique exhibitions, thermal baths, and party trams.

07/07/2023

"There was only one engineer who firmly stated that a bridge could be built and was even willing to design it, and that engineer was none other than William Tierney Clark."

A travel report that changed the history of Pest and Buda, as well as Hungary. The little book contributed to the change of half a thousand years of legal customs and the implementation of an investment of unprecedented size and technical quality. This book was The Bridge Report [Hídjelentés in Hu...

07/06/2023

The ranking is based on the number of five-star ratings for each World Heritage site on TripAdvisor and the number of positive Twitter posts.

27/05/2023

Don't miss this funny & extremely beautiful film if you want to know everthing around an oak. No language barrier as there are only animal voices and music.

Trailer: https://www.cinemacity.hu/films/a-tolgy-az-erdo-szive/5307s2r

17/05/2023

The legendary Zugliget tram line was shut down 46 years ago and the two iconic trams No. 58 were finally removed yesterday. :( From 1983, the two trams were used as the reception and food truck of the Zugliget camping.

One of the most popular tram lines, the last of which was the iconic tram 58, was discontinued 45 years ago, on 17 January 1977. One of the first tram lines on the Buda side was the one in Zugliget, which started in 1896, the year of the millennium, and although it was replaced by the 58V replacemen...

11/05/2023

Started on the Buda side, ended up at the Basilica, what a feeling to look back and around! :)

09/05/2023

Moonrise in Tabán

04/05/2023

01/05/2023

Kissing trees. Eternal love. 💘

29/04/2023

With Zsolt Debreczy, renowned research botanist, explorer and traveler, founding member of the International Dendrological Foundation.

24/04/2023

One more photo from yesterday as I was telling the story of the small Úti Madonna Chapel and the "meditation path" on Széchenyi Hill.

16/04/2023

Hiking with children, discovering nature. :)

09/04/2023

In this Easter article, we would like to show what are the traditional Hungarian Easter customs and what this holiday means for the Christian world.

07/04/2023

Ecce Homo. This statue was erected in 1885 as a gift of gratitude by a local family (Budakeszi) for surviving the epidemic.

04/04/2023

The cogwheel railway restarted on 1 April, the track was renovated during the winter break. It is a novelty that this summer the open nostalgia train will run several times between Városmajor and the Széchenyi Hill terminus.

The cogwheel railway will start again on 1 April, the track was renovated during the winter break. It is a novelty that this summer the open nostalgia train will run several times between Városmajor and the Széchenyi Hill terminus.

03/04/2023

Teambuilding with an extremely enthusiastic outdoorsy company. A great adventure again! :D

01/04/2023

Spring is here! :)

26/03/2023

Harangvölgy, here we come! :)

23/03/2023

Sunset at Hunyad-orom, Zugliget with the Elisabeth Lookout Tower in the background.

21/03/2023

Healthy forests for healthy people! Today is the International Day of Forests! :)

20/03/2023

Yesterday's photo at the Svábhegy Water Tower. I was trying to explain how water goes uphill. :)

14/03/2023

In the spirit of the Petőfi 200 commemorative year, the programs in the Buda Castle Garden Bazaar will be based around the legendary hero János Vitéz (John the Valiant), a figure in the national poet Sándor Petőfi’s epic poem. An open-air exhibition will feature a selection of visual artworks by art students, showing excerpts from the poem of the hero from the perspective of today’s youth.

Exhibitions, history re-enactment, craft activities and interactive children's games will await visitors in the renewed Buda Castle.

08/03/2023

For the International Women's Day: Everything is possible! Baronesses Rolanda and Ilona Eötvös, Baron Lorand Eötvös's daughters, climbing in long skirt. 💃

Photo: collection of Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum

05/03/2023

Following Pauline monks' paths.