Free Budapest Walking Tours
A great series of Free Budapest Walking Tours complete with very informative guides. Entertaining tours run daily and range from General, to Communist, to Jewish themed walking tours.
The goal of these walking tours is to discover and experience Budapest through the eyes of the insiders, to learn about history, society, architecture and culture, to bring to life streets, bridges and statues and of course to have fun. Things are told by someone who has experienced it. Guides are not just read about they are talking about in a textbook and tours are more than showing the sights and famous places but help to get a real feel of what Budapest really is and what Hungarians are actually like. Guides work for their tips only, that is why they are motivated, enthusiastic and critical.
Free Budapest Walking Tour is an informative and entertaining daily walk around the best sights Buda and Pest has to offer, including all academically relevant and practically inevitable information that tourists could not find out on their own. Daily at 10.30AM
No guidebook has insider stories written by people who actually lived in the Communism and experienced it. During the Free Communist Walking Tour history politics, ideology, economy, mentality, suppress of the Communist decades are explained, along with the chronology of the key events, brainwash process, social conditions, human rights, secret agents and cult of the party bosses behind the Iron Curtain. Sights of this interactive adventure include the 1956 uprising areas, the bronze bullet memorial, the flag with the hole and the eternal flame, the secret entrance of a military bunker, the last Communist memorial in the inner city and other symbols of "Soviet friendship". The tour ends at a typical Communist building where the most interesting relics of the "good old times" can be seen and touched too, such as Communist propaganda board games, propaganda posters and postcards, school report books, employer books, party membership book, pioneer membership book, the famous red and blue passports, some Communist high tech items and many more. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 3.30 PM.
The Free Jewish Quarter and the Best Pubs Walking Tour shows not only the religious traditions of the Hungarian Jews but the mutuality with the Hungarian history and evolution. It covers the history of the largest synagogue in Europe, leads through the cemetery and the memorial garden, 3 other precious places of worship and the hidden Jewish symbols of the neighborhood such as the last Ritual Bath in Budapest and a cool Kosher Pizzeria. The Jewish Quarter is also famous for the authentic ruined pubs and cultural centers which are the top meeting points for locals and foreigners too. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3.30 PM.
Walk this way!
Tours starts from Vörösmarty square (tér) M1 metro line outside the Gerbeaud cafe at the fountain.
