This become more or less just a list of places and things. Usually these are the places what I recommend to collegues and friends visiting Budapest.

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Eating and drinking

Streetfood

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The mother of all ruin bars in Budapest. During the early 2000's a set of new places opened in the unused building of the inner city and they lighted the vibrant nightlife of the district. This was the first bar like that and it is still a classic. There are lots of tourists here as this place is also advertised heavily in tourist magazines.

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Seeing

Places, buildings

Parliament

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It is nice to see it from close and from far. If you would like to make this kind of a picture you need to go to the other side of Danube, to Batthyány square

St. Stephen's Basilica

.https://maps.app.goo.gl/uzfqMy8wKvBxyMPr7

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I would recommend to take the time and walk to the top of it. The view is nice there.

Castle district

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/PEL6g7ft4DKdkaUr7

There are lots of things here, like the Matthias Church (that stripped roof in the picture), the Fisherman's Bastion (from where this picture was made) and the actual castle. 

From the conference place the best way to get there is to cross the Danube on the Széchenyi Chain Bridge and either walk up in the stairs or take the funicular.

Yes, Budapest has a funicular also.

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Citadel lookout

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/GmewcBWVNhyvBpWh7

This is the place to make this panorama of the city. Pro tipp: you can walk up from the Buda side of the Erzsébet Bridge.

(Now Google maps tells me that the place is temporarly closed, what is difficult to interpret as this is a public space)

Doing

• Bath culture. Have thermal bath and different type of sounas in a classic bath
  • https://www.szechenyifurdo.hu/ - this is the most classic, but with the most tourists
  • https://www.rudasfurdo.hu/ - a bit more hidden and have a very nice view to the river
  • https://www.lukacsfurdo.hu - hidden most local
• The bridges - it worth to walk through some of them, they provide a nice view to the city
  • Szabadság - This is the best to walk, it is anyways between the Vásárcsarnok and the Gellért square, where the Gellért tér is
  • Széchenyi chain bridge - Again between two places worth to check, district V. on the Pert side and the castle district in the Buda side.
  • Margit - This is more interesting from architecture point of view as it has a 45 degree curve in the middle of it where it attaches to the Margit island