The city of Budapest is quite rightly renowned as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The city was born in the late 19th century from the merging of three major towns – Buda, Pest and Obuda, and the river Danube flows right through the center, dividing it still into two unequal city-halves: the hilly Buda and flat landed Pest.
Budapest is full of history – the Magyar conquest in 896, destruction and rapid recovery from Mongol invaders in 1241 and Ottoman rule throughout the majority of the 16th century have all contributed to what Budapest is today – a grand, thriving, cultural city with so much to see, do and experience.