|
Szent Istvan korut, running from Nyugati Station to the Danube, marks the end of the Lipotvaros - but there are a few sights further out worth a mention. Szent Istvan Park , opposite Margit sziget, is the social hub of a wealthy Jewish neighbourhood, with the finest flowerbeds in the city - an apt site for a monument to Raoul Wallenberg , who gave up a playboy life in neutral Sweden to help the Jews of Budapest in 1944. Armed with diplomatic status and money for bribing officials, Wallenberg and his assistants plucked thousands from the cattle trucks and lodged them in "safe houses", manoeuvring to buy time until the Russians arrived. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested as a spy and vanished into the Gulag, never to return. The monument itself was constructed in the 1950s but "exiled" to Debrecen before being stashed away for decades, only taking its rightful place in Budapest in 1999. Visitors with kids or an interest in science should enjoy the Palace of Miracles ( Csodak palotaja ; Jan to mid-April Tues-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; mid-April to Dec Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm; 500Ft) at Vaci ut 19, three blocks north of Lehel ter metro. This interactive playhouse was the brainchild of two Hungarian physicists and aims to explain scientific principles to 6- to 12-year-olds, using optical illusions, a bed of nails, a simulated low-gravity "moonwalk" and a "miracle bicycle" on a tightrope - though the scarcity of explanations in English may leave you none the wiser.
Your Tip for Beyond Lipotvaros
Help other backpackers! Write your own guides and backpacking tips to Beyond Lipotvaros - they will appear instantly on this page - Please only write a tip/guide to Beyond Lipotvaros - visit the main Beyond Lipotvaros forum to ask a question!
Please do not post links to your site here (they won't work) - please use the Beyond Lipotvaros webguide section below! Thanks.
| 
