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  • Budapest to Extend Car-Free Access Along Danube

    Budapest to Extend Car-Free Access Along Danube

    22 May 2026

    Starting on Tuesday 26 May, Budapest will expand car-free access along the Pest lower embankment, giving pedestrians, runners and cyclists more space to enjoy the Danube waterfront not only at weekends, but on weekday evenings as well. More >>

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  • E-Ticket Insights: Contactless Payment Success on Budapest Metro in 1st Month

    E-Ticket Insights: Contactless Payment Success on Budapest Metro in 1st Month

    • 20 May 2026 5:47 PM

    Over 110,000 tickets have been sold by contactless payment across Budapest's metro lines since the option was extended to the metro on April 22, Budapest public transport company BKK said on Wednesday.

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  • Train Insight: MAV Finds Solution to Cope with Summer Traffic to Balaton

    Train Insight: MAV Finds Solution to Cope with Summer Traffic to Balaton

    • 20 May 2026 5:35 AM

    Hungarian state railways MAV will lease ten InterCity carriages from the Austrian railways for the summer, David Vitézy, the minister for investment and transportation, said on Facebook.

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  • Multi-Million Euro Makeover Starts on One of Budapest’s ‘Gloomiest’ Streets

    Multi-Million Euro Makeover Starts on One of Budapest’s ‘Gloomiest’ Streets

    • 18 May 2026 1:36 PM

    The renovation of Budapest's Mester Street is set to get under way, the city's mayor announced at a press conference held with representatives of transport authority BKK, Budapest City Hall and the 9th district local council on Friday.

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  • Budapest Ranked One of Europe’s Best Cities for Solo Travelers

    Budapest Ranked One of Europe’s Best Cities for Solo Travelers

    • 8 May 2026 9:38 AM

    Budapest has been named one of Europe’s top destinations for solo travellers in a new ranking published by Quotezone.

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  • Budapest100: Step Behind the Scenes of the City's Secrets, 9 - 10 May

    Budapest100: Step Behind the Scenes of the City's Secrets, 9 - 10 May

    • 5 May 2026 5:43 PM

    For one weekend every spring, the heavy oak doors and wrought-iron gates of Budapest’s private courtyards swing open to the public. Budapest100 — the city’s premier architecture and community festival — is back on May 9–10, 2026, and this year marks a special "homecoming" for the event.

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  • Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum: The True Face of Lifesaving

    Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum: The True Face of Lifesaving

    • 5 May 2026 12:44 PM

    The more than 2,300-square-metre Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum is located beneath Buda Castle. Deep under the castle hill, a roughly 10-kilometre cave and cellar system winds its way through the rock, and its passages were reinforced on the eve of World War II so that it could serve as an air-raid shelter during potential bombings.

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