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“Pays like a Csekonics,” people still say of someone who has no trouble spending money lavishly. The Károlyi-Csekonics Palace, a jewel of Budapest’s former Magnate Quarter, offers an authentic glimpse into what life in aristocratic circles may have been like towards the end of the 19th century.

With Szonja Stella, on the relationship between literature and the city.

On 21 February, International Tourist Guide Day was marked in an unusual way at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Budapest’s Inner City. This time, the church did not welcome and celebrate visitors, but rather the tour guides who have done, and continue to do, so much to promote the church’s cultural and ecclesiastical treasures.

Zsófia Czakó, tour guide at Imagine Budapest, is a guest on pontjókor!, where we discuss one of the most fascinating stops on today’s popular urban walks. András Saxlehner rose from being a cloth merchant from Kőszeg to becoming a Budapest-based bitter-water manufacturer and the owner of one of the most beautiful palaces on Andrássy Avenue. What brought him international success? How did he work his way into one of turn-of-the-century Budapest’s wealthiest families? And what was happening on the first floor of the Saxlehner Palace, among works by Endre Thék, Károly Lotz and Gyula Jungfer? These questions, too, are answered.

There was plenty of makaó and nasi-vasi going on — but not only that. Naked can-can dancers, a bloody murder in the Castle District, cunning jewel thieves: Budapest, what a wild place you were! It is hard to believe what went on here. Police Chief Elek Thaisz, who only added to the city’s moral decay; famous Hungarian criminal gangs wanted all across Europe; silk-clad ladies who stole their way down Andrássy Avenue — and we have not even mentioned “Count Sticky Fingers,” who toured Europe under that name, knowing no one would understand it anyway, while making off with countless purses and gold jewels.

Music exists to support prayer, says the cantor, who can even get the elderly ladies to sing in tempo. The conversation focuses on our district’s most important church organs — and on the question of what is worth more: a Ferrari or a restored organ. The latest episode of Csakugyan features Gyula Lendvai.

Intense passions ending in scandal, offended artists marching in protest, sobbing head waiters, a burning department store, sharp-tongued heiresses — the hidden stories of an avenue from a time when Józsefváros was still considered the outskirts, its streets crossed by streams and gullies, and when at the Two Pistols, the occasional outsider might be killed.

Do you have a favourite building? Do you know what colour your neighbour’s house is? Do you ever pause to admire beautiful façades and inviting entrance halls? Is there a public building you know inside and out? Is there a building you would love to peek into, or gladly explore from top to bottom? In October, during Architecture Month and around World Architecture Day, many places offer opportunities for building tours and urban walks. But what if, regardless of all that, we looked at our immediate surroundings differently this year — lifted our gaze and observed familiar buildings with the curiosity of explorers?

We have long been keeping an eye on this building on Dózsa György Road, which was originally built as a synagogue but is now used by the fencing division of Budapest Honvéd. Today, the domed space is — or has been — a training ground for Olympic and world championship medallists such as Gergely Siklósi, Géza Imre and Tímea Nagy.

October is Architecture Month, when special building tours become available in Budapest. Visitors can gain access to places that are usually closed to the public — and even to listed historic buildings where the tour is led by the architect personally.

On Architecture Month.

During Architecture Month, you can gain access to buildings that are normally closed to the general public, including a fencing hall converted from a synagogue.

During Architecture Month in October, Imagine’s urban walks offer access to a former synagogue turned fencing hall, a Baroque library, and a secret palace on Andrássy Avenue. We would grab the opportunity as soon as possible to explore these remarkable buildings.

This October, Imagine welcomes lovers of urban walks to its Architecture Month building tours for the fifth time. During this unconventional campaign, the architectural curiosities of Budapest and Pécs are presented to the general public.

Many of us have our fixed routes and favourite haunts, with the rest of the streets serving merely as scenery. But who doesn’t love spin-offs and expanded universes? Perhaps that is exactly what an urban walk is.

For the fifth time, Imagine is welcoming those curious about architectural curiosities this October. As part of the Architecture Month campaign, unconventional urban walks and building tours will be held on a limited number of occasions in Budapest and Pécs.

Is horse manure the bigger problem, or petrol fumes? Coach, fiacre, carriage, taxi — which would you choose? And where exactly was the “Spitting Place”? The more-than-cunning history of Bérkocsis Street and its surroundings can now be heard on Csakugyan. An extraordinary account of the district, bringing neighbourhood life in the 19th and 20th centuries vividly to life: coachmen, carters, widows, carriages, fiacres, a stone bridge on Mária Street, starving writers creating period documents when they meant to write novels, the Two Pistols Inn, appalling housing conditions, brewery parties — unmissable.

One year ago, in July 2023, the W Budapest Hotel opened in one of Budapest’s most iconic buildings, the former Ballet Institute. Since May 2024, visitors have also been able to admire the stunning building as part of a programme by Imagine, a company specialising in themed urban walks.

Gastronomy tours, literary excursions, exclusive building visits, and architectural wanderings: the Imagine team shows participants a slice of popular Hungarian cities — Budapest, Veszprém, Pécs and Debrecen — through a special lens. We spoke with Mariann Nagy, Communications Manager at Imagine, who offered a glimpse behind the scenes of their exciting projects.

The sercli is the easiest part of a loaf of bread to get hold of — and the best one, too. The walk was likewise designed to showcase the very best of the capital’s mills and bakeries. Tour guide Rita Tillai did everything she could to make sure that, on this hot summer day, we enjoyed the three-hour urban walk while imagining the millers, bakers and women bread sellers of the past — and, of course, tasting along the way, because such a lively history calls for a little sustenance.

The building in question is located in downtown Budapest and is fascinating not only as an architectural monument. Our article reveals why shells decorate its façade, what lies behind the striking stained-glass window visible from the outside, and what connection Hungarian sea-going ships had to the Titanic.

The gastronomy walks continued this year as well at the Hungarian National Archives’ palace on Bécsi kapu Square, where four groups are being welcomed over two weekends this March. Once again, the events are attracting strong interest.

To truly get to know a city, flavours must be part of the experience. Budapest’s atmosphere is inseparable from its restaurants and cafés, legendary confectioneries, renowned breweries and famous hotels. Then there are the city’s larders: market halls, markets, lángos stalls and strudel shops — along with all the other places where something delicious was once served, or can still be tasted today.

On Szabadság Square, in the heart of the city centre, stands an imposing yet abandoned palace at first glance — one that many pass by every day without knowing what kind of life once unfolded there. The Adria Palace, which has certainly seen better days, was, surprisingly enough, once the centre of maritime shipping. The eventful history, former residents, atmosphere and flavours of this remarkable building come to life on Imagine’s newest walk.

Starting from the idea that everyone loves to eat, a gastronomy walk along the Gerbeaud–Onyx axis is perhaps the simplest way in the genre to guide smiling people along the generously buttered path of their own happiness.

Crossing the Erzsébet Bridge, I have admired the ornate buildings rising on either side countless times: the Klotild and Matild Palaces. Recently, I had the chance to peek inside the latter — and even discover its hidden secrets. I recommend everyone do the same.

Imagine Budapest has been leading urban walks for 15 years, primarily in Budapest, but in recent years in major cities outside the capital as well. To mark the milestone anniversary of one of the longest-running and most successful businesses in this field, the company treated the press to a special walk. We were able to see Budapest from an angle few people get to experience — all the more reason to register early for the Architecture Month walks.

The Imagine team invites visitors to a special programme as one of the October events of Architecture Month.

Imagine, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, is launching its campaign focusing on architecture, architectural trends and the most popular architectural styles for the third time.

The 15-year-old Imagine team, which organises sightseeing tours, takes the public to places they would otherwise not be able to enter. One such place is the inner balcony on the third floor of the Central Seminary, offering a truly exclusive view of the statues on the pediment of the University Church.

With Imagine, we were able to explore the former industrial-architectural gem, recently beautifully renovated and operating as a five-star hotel for the past two years. From the truly unique roof ornaments and the imposing staircase to the terrace with its incredible panorama, we could see how the building, empty for many long years, was brought back to life.

We have been covering Józsefváros quite a lot lately, but it is one of our most diverse districts, so it is well worth delving deeper into its history. The romantic, castle-like building of the telephone exchange, which stood empty for many long years, had always intrigued us. Recently, we had the chance to go behind its walls and explore the building, now reopened as a five-star hotel. Designed by Rezső Ray, the Józsefváros Telephone Exchange was equipped with the most modern technology of its time. It was the first state-owned reinforced concrete construction in the country, and during the renovation, a mirrored pole-dancing room was even discovered in the tower building.

October is approaching, and with it Architecture Month, when we can join the Imagine team for special building tours. We can gain access to places that are normally closed to visitors — and even to listed historic buildings where, as an extra feature, the architect personally leads the tour. We would grab the opportunity as soon as possible to get inside these remarkable buildings.

Imagine Budapest’s walks often reveal something entirely new in familiar places, or open up locations and buildings that are closed to the general public. This October, during Architecture Month, visitors will be able to explore a former telephone exchange, a beautiful Art Nouveau villa, a closed seminary, a Bauhaus villa and a palace on Andrássy Avenue.

Thanks to Imagine Budapest’s themed walks, everyone can now discover Budapest from a wide variety of perspectives — including numerous buildings in Józsefváros.

Why is there a rabbit statue in Károlyi Garden? Who might have rested beneath the 150-year-old mulberry tree? Is there really a courtyard in downtown Budapest where wine sometimes flows from the fountain? Was the stable of Kincsem, the unbeatable wonder mare, truly behind the former Pioneer Department Store? A remarkable Budapest walk revealed the answers to all these questions, offering a glimpse into genuinely hidden gardens and the dark and luminous mysteries of secret courtyards.

The recently and spectacularly renovated, fairytale-like Krausz Palace has attracted enormous interest. Now, the gates of the building complex on Andrássy Avenue are opening to the public for one guided walk only.

Even some ELTE students may be surprised to learn that an observatory is hidden inside the Faculty of Humanities building on Múzeum Boulevard, designed by Imre Steindl. The observatory has been closed to visitors for years, but thanks to the Imagine team, which organises sightseeing tours, we were able to peek behind doors that are never opened.

We viewed the city from the rooftops of three remarkable Budapest buildings, discovering a Budapest that feels entirely different from the one we know at pavement level.

Just as today’s science documentaries often move between genres, drawing on the tools of feature films as much as those of documentaries, this walk also blends two forms: the knowledge-sharing of guided tours with theatrical techniques. This not only helps immersion and evokes the atmosphere of the place and period for participants, but also gives the more than two-hour walk an excellent rhythm, allowing time for the information to settle. Erika Manyasz, Roland Mangold and Tamás Rábavölgyi handle their roles superbly. In the very short time available to them, they are able to bring characters and relationships to life, and, with the help of costumes and a few small props, vividly evoke the era. Their presence and scenes are what make this walk truly entertaining and meaningful.

Epreskert is a “jewel box” in the heart of the city that is still unknown to many, welcoming visitors with a variety of walks and cultural programmes. The garden holds nearly 150 years of art-historical heritage. We visited it ourselves to find out, among other things, what exactly “walking theatre” is, and what hidden treasures from the past the site has to offer.

Cities have many faces. Those who know nothing about a city’s history see streets, buildings — some of which are interesting simply to look at, of course — shops, museums and the urban landscape. But this is only the outermost layer of the onion. Anyone who knows what happened in the city in the Middle Ages, during the Second World War, or fifty years ago; which scientist, painter, military leader or actor’s life was connected to it; or which films were shot in its streets, is guaranteed to see something entirely different from someone simply looking for the nearest fast-food restaurant or railway station.

The Imagine team invites visitors to another special urban programme titled Here Come the Girls of Pécs!. What could a convicted counterfeiter, a Zsolnay girl, a confectioner and a nun possibly have in common? Naturally, the fact that they were all important women in the life of Pécs.

Spring arrives at Imagine Budapest with a dozen gastronomy-themed urban walks. There will also be a brewery visit, a walk through the history of drinks, and a gastronomy-focused exhibition tour.

Imagine Budapest isn’t your typical tour company. It offers real insider tours that reveal the exciting, hidden face of the city. Want to see the most important sights in downtown Pest, see lovely internal courtyards and find out who made the oldest graffiti in town? All this is possible.

Which of our kings called for the construction of the Church of the Assumption in Buda Castle, and are there still any parts of it that have survived from the Middle Ages? Which saint’s relic is kept in the altar, and who was crowned in the church? On Imagine’s late-evening walk, we were able to access parts of one of the city’s best-known churches that are normally closed to visitors.

Everyone loves secrets, forgotten urban legends and mysterious downtown courtyards — and, of course, we also love tasting local flavours. On its themed urban walks, the Imagine team explores all of these, now through new topics. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Imagine is becoming increasingly popular beyond its familiar Budapest walks as well, among locals, visitors and tourists in cities outside the capital.

Imagine was among the first to organise urban walks in Budapest, and this year marks its 15th anniversary. What has changed over the past decade and a half? How are the trends evolving? Why do people go on urban walks, and who are they?

If you have always been interested in food styling as a profession, have often wondered about learning the ins and outs of designing dishes yourself, or are simply curious about how someone can become devoted to this wonderful vocation, then our next video report is for you. Food stylist Ági László talks about the defining milestones of her professional and personal life at BOOOK Kitchen, in cooperation with Imagine Budapest, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.

The Imagine team is launching an urban walk on wine and sparkling wine culture titled Wine, Intoxication, Pécs. After all, everyone has secrets — even the Pécs wine region.

Do you ever wonder how many secrets and exciting stories are hidden in your own neighbourhood? What people and events shaped the place where you live? History is still with us today, simply waiting for us to discover its secrets. There is no better or more enjoyable way to do this than on a guided walk on a pleasant spring day. Here are the most exciting ones for the coming period.

At a special press event this week, Imagine, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, presented its March programme series. The event introducing Gastronomy Month, enriched with unconventional walks, began at the former Calf Market Hall and ended with an interactive food-styling and photography session.

Urban walks are an increasingly popular trend, but as we learned, people also appreciate having an extra experience along the way.

We love taking part in different urban walks because we always learn something secret, something new, and get to discover an entirely different face of Budapest. Over the past 15 years, Imagine has taken us into the most hidden places, and this March, they are exploring the capital’s gastronomy through a series of themed walks.

We had long dreamed of gaining access to one of Budapest’s most secret and secluded places: the Pauline Library, which captured our imagination not only with its centuries-old books, but also with its hand-carved Baroque furniture. On Imagine’s special walk, we explored not only the library but also the spaces of the Inner City Parish Church, where we listened to the sound of the harmonium and learned that an organ costs more than a Ferrari.

On Imagine’s walk, we explored the palace of the former owner of the Athenaeum Printing House. Its former elegance still shines through, even though visitors stepping through the huge wrought-iron gate are now greeted by heavily worn railings, crumbling plaster and eroded reliefs.

On rare occasions, in the chapel sacristy, visitors can view the register entry that records the departed strictly in order of arrival — whether a homeless woman who died of cholera or Hungary’s first prime minister.

So what can we find in an institution dedicated to Hungarian architecture? Oceans of blueprints, models, watercolour renderings and architects’ estates, containing everything from BKV passes and opera tickets to entire wall units. We gained access to the institution for a few hours on an Imagine walk, and among the treasures and boxes waiting to be discovered, we could easily have spent an entire day.

For those with a little more experience, however, it is worth exploring the garden with an expert guide. They will show you where the stepping stones have deliberately been placed so that you have to pay attention to your steps and are jolted out of scrolling on your phone, or which lantern was designed for snowy weather. What appears to be a little stream suddenly becomes the whole of human life, beginning with the waterfall of childhood and flowing all the way to the ocean of disappearance. It is the best place in the city to realise that there is something beyond Sunday schnitzel and your BKV pass.

Naphegy, stretching between two of the city’s most elegant areas — the Castle District and Gellért Hill — receives undeservedly little attention compared to its better-known neighbours. Yet if we take a closer look, it is easy to find the old-world atmosphere that made the area an elegant home for celebrities and artists around the turn of the century. Thanks to Imagine’s twilight walk titled Silence, Greenery, Inspiration, we were able to discover the secrets of the wonderful villas in the neighbourhood.

On Imagine’s walk, with fogged-up glasses, in the heat and accompanied by the sulphurous scents so familiar from the baths, we explored the tunnel system beneath the Gellért Baths, visited the machine room and found the original spring.

We are living in emotional times. The world events of recent months and years have moved even the most hardened hearts. Amid so many difficulties, it is no bad thing to realise that we are capable of compassion, empathy and love — but also fear, anger and worry. Feelings are part of our lives. Even the experience of an urban walk can bring dormant emotions and memories to the surface.

While exploring the bath’s spaces on an Imagine Budapest walk, we also learned that being a pasha in Buda was hardly life insurance, how the Turks used the baths, that everyone was obsessed with hair removal, and that the bath’s name does not refer to a ruler at all.

Hidden in one of Budapest’s inner districts lies a mysterious, peaceful green island wrapped in timelessness, where buildings, statues and sculptural fragments are shielded from curious eyes by trees and bushes. But how did they end up in the heart of Terézváros — and, most importantly, what works of art are hidden here, in a place where trumpet music and the cheerful rhythms of dance parties once rang out? We discovered the secrets of Epreskert on Imagine’s walk titled Epreskert Tales.

For the first time, our Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest is announcing a themed walk in partnership with the Imagine Budapest team, inviting visitors on an organ tour in the city centre. The three-hour programme promises a true concert experience: at every stop, participants can enjoy uplifting live music.

October is Architecture Month, and ImagineBudapest is preparing a series of special urban walks this year.

October is Architecture Month, and ImagineBudapest is preparing special urban walks this year.

Since 2008, ImagineBudapest has introduced tens of thousands of visitors each year to the mysteries of architecture and the city, both in Budapest and in other parts of Hungary. During the two- to three-hour walks and building tours, in-depth knowledge is enriched with engaging stories, exclusive access, and art-historical and historical perspectives. In October, however, visitors can look forward to even more special experiences.

On this walk, the city, nature and history take centre stage. Among many other places, we visited the tiny courtyard of a downtown apartment building transformed into a green oasis, said hello to the rabbit of Károlyi Garden, and stopped by a quiet monastery garden in the middle of the noisy city.

Something happened on Imagine Budapest’s Urban Codebreaking themed programme that is rare even on walks like these. Perhaps the evening timing also played a part, since Pest is much more magical at night — but it was certainly thanks to tour guide Elza Morcsányi that the stories told could almost be seen.

On 10 July, the Night of Walks returns, when from the afternoon until late at night you can lose yourself behind Budapest gateways that are otherwise closed, and discover the unknown side of the capital.

On 10 July, the Night of Walks returns, offering the chance to wander from afternoon until late at night behind gateways that are otherwise closed, and to discover the unknown side of the city.

On 10 July, the Night of Walks returns, offering the chance to wander from afternoon until late at night behind gateways that are otherwise closed, and to discover the unknown side of the city.

The newly established partnership with the walking-tour company ImagineBudapest targets local visitors and domestic tourists. As part of the collaboration, three themed walks are being developed with the involvement of churches belonging to the Archdiocese.

We present culture-builders who remained uniquely successful even under COVID conditions. They have almost turned the genre of urban walks into a Hungarikum, while using words that also guide us: tradition, heritage, community, creativity, achievement and organic development.

In our everyday lives, we may not even notice how many wonders and secrets surround us. This is what ImagineBudapest’s latest video draws attention to, introducing the story of both a renovated building and a new one.

In our everyday lives, we may not even notice how many wonders and secrets surround us. This is what ImagineBudapest’s series draws attention to, beginning with the façades of the Palace Quarter.

You can find out from ImagineBudapest’s latest video, in which their newest short film presents three renovated buildings.

Companies organising urban walks may not be winners of the pandemic, but their market has been shaken by the coronavirus far less than almost anyone else’s in the tourism sector. Their turnover has not fallen significantly compared with the previous year, and they are entering 2021 with high hopes as well. They told us why.

The backbone of the event was provided by programmes from already familiar groups: building spatial installations (Bartók Workshop, KÉK), model-making (Húsznegyven), guided themed urban walks (ImagineBudapest, kultúrAktív, Deák17), interactive urban games and board games (kultúrAktív), and LEGO modelling (KÉK).

Themed walks are thriving across the capital: by their very nature, they are environmentally conscious programmes that allow us to become tourists in our own city. But for a truly green walking experience, ImagineBudapest’s Small Footprint in Újbuda walk is the perfect choice. We spoke with environmental journalist Viki Doró and company director Emese Káldi about the spirit of the green walk, and about how a programme like this can provide the initial push towards change.

Until the late 1700s, instead of public lighting, a silence ordinance was in force in Pest. Then, one after another, new lamps and professions arrived to serve the cause of light: candelabras, lamplighters, lighting calendars, candle service and light painters. In search of them, visitors can join an extraordinary walk organised by Imagine Budapest this November.

With ImagineBudapest, we can now discover Budapest’s most closely guarded secrets, right down to the last ornate door handle. Their themed city tours are not primarily aimed at attracting foreign tourists, but rather at drawing the attention of today’s residents to the small wonders that surround us in different corners of the city.

On a sunny autumn afternoon, we had the opportunity to join a joint sightseeing walk in Óbuda organised by Esernyős and Imagine Budapest, during which we took a closer look at the adventurous history of an iconic building on the cobbled Fő Square.

If you would like to see it for yourself and get a glimpse behind the scenes, it is worth planning well in advance — very, very far in advance — because the announced dates fill up at lightning speed. We recommend subscribing to the newsletter, so no one is disappointed. The walk lasts roughly an hour and a half, and not only introduces the building’s winding past, but also takes participants to special locations that, in theory, only hotel guests would be able to see.

Esernyős is located on the picture-perfect Fő Square in Óbuda. It is a multifunctional cultural and community space where visitors can enjoy concerts, literary evenings, exhibitions and many other events throughout the year. The venue crowned its 5th birthday with a week-long programme series, and we attended one of its days. We took a walk, then admired the light painting accompanied by great music.

Exciting urban walks, unique programmes, special locations, entertaining guided tours, in-depth content — and the City itself.

At the request of the U.S. Embassy, Imagine Budapest is organising a sightseeing tour titled Walk of Change ’89, from the Cold War to 1989.

As we have already written, music plays throughout the walk, so from Várkert Bazár you can stroll over to Clark Ádám Square while listening to the iconic lyrics of Ne írjon fel, rendőr bácsi. There, the discussion turns to the 1956 Revolution, Radio Free Europe and the arrival of jazz — in a period when listening to free, Western music was dangerous, yet “music knows no borders, and over, between and under the wires, it found its way here.”

Today — 30 years after the regime change — it is hard to imagine what it was like to secretly listen to Radio Free Europe to keep up with the latest Western music, to be devastated as an Illés fan when the band was banned from performing at home after a London interview with the BBC, or to get involved in the underground punk movement and distribute samizdat in the 1980s. On the 10 free walks organised by the U.S. Embassy and Imagine Budapest, participants follow the trail of the American dream and the longing for freedom, while “the song plays on a Mambo tape recorder.”

The walk titled Walk of Change ’89 – The Rhythm of Freedom connects culture, foreign policy and economic policy through Hungarian and American popular music. It takes participants on an exciting adventure in the heart of Budapest, inviting them to reflect on what freedom means to them as Hungarians and as Americans.

From the very first moment, we felt like insiders, as we arrived at Kincsem Park not through the renovated main entrance shown above, but through the service entrance. The tour guide led us through the history of Hungarian horse racing, from its beginnings to the present day, but perhaps the most exciting part was that we also reached areas of the Park where entry is usually forbidden.

“Keep your head up” could even be the motto of Imagine Budapest’s sightseeing tour, where the past comes to life during the two-hour walk, and secrets locked in stone are revealed.

Imagine Budapest’s walk titled Budapest Guide to Spirits mainly explores the drinking history of the 19th century, taking visitors into the city centre’s boozy past every two weeks. One thing is certain: Pest did not function without beer even back then.

A new form of urban tourism is attracting large crowds — already tens of thousands of people each year — in Budapest, where numerous companies offer themed walks for those who want to experience the capital’s lesser-known side up close.

There is a Baroque residential building in the Castle District, on Úri Street, that looks almost entirely unremarkable from the outside — apart, perhaps, from a few more chimneys on its roof than one might expect. But what secrets could it be hiding? The real story lies deep underground. Built on medieval foundations, with walls that still preserve the arches to this day, the house itself is only the tip of the iceberg. On an ImagineBudapest walk led by certified civil engineer Balázs Szabó, we descended more than 30 metres underground to discover who built the most modern bunker of its time in the cave system rediscovered at the end of the 19th century, why they did so, how hundreds survived the siege there, and what later became of the complex.

Over the past five years, themed sightseeing tours and the specialised teams organising them have also become widespread in Budapest. Among them, one of the best-known and most popular is Imagine Budapest, whose team puts no small amount of energy into decoding the capital’s secrets. For them, however, this is a great joy — and it shows in everything connected to them. We spoke with Emese Káldi.

Surprisingly, our walk titled Mysterious Art Deco, organised as part of the Spring Festival, began at a location where not a single building represents the style. Yet it was no coincidence that the Imagine Budapest #HeadsUpBudapest series tour started from Szabadság Square, in front of the former Hungarian Television building.

Imagine Budapest is organising a free urban walk in Budapest for visually impaired visitors, covering several sites connected to the 1956 Revolution. The two-hour programme is primarily intended for visually impaired participants, but companions and other interested visitors are also welcome.

On Imagine Budapest’s walk, sighted and visually impaired participants explored the key sites of the 1956 Revolution together.