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Routes start

Stage 1

01 Kazinczy utca, 55

47.499833, 19.060351 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Image in the wall
Card suit
Hearts
09 Nagy Diófa utca, 30

47.498549, 19.063967 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bookshop.
Coming up with the name for the shop, its owners were inspired by a novel by a great Russian writer. What is his name?
Mikhail Bulgakov
11 Dob utca 48

47.500846, 19.064251 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Graffiti on the building firewall
Which floor is the cat on?
2nd floor (3 as well)
23 Erzsébet tér

47.497692, 19.051988 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Memorial tree in front of Kempinski Hotel
Musician, winner of 13 Grammy Awards
Michael Jackson
24 Teréz krt., 55  

47.510433, 19.057095 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Western Railway Station (Nyugati pályaudvar). Support to the right from the door of MÁV Nosztalgia office
City name on the plaque at the bottom of the support

Historical background Checkpoint picture 24

This station was built by Eiffel & Cie, a company not known at that time and owned by two young engineers, Gustave Eiffel and Théophile Seyrig. Despite the established myth, Eiffel himself was not involved in the construction of the Budapest Nyugati rail terminal: it was designed by Seyrig and August de Serres.
31 Teréz krt., 58

47.509229, 19.057462 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Old intercom at A staircase (A lépcső)
Maximum flat number on the III floor
6
34 Hajos utca, 25

47.504087, 19.057379 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Façade of a residential building. Name
French historical figure
Napoleon
36 Hold utca, 4

47.504335, 19.052401 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Hungarian Treasury Building
First letter of a mosaic inscription over the main entrance
M
38 Szabadság tér

47.503845, 19.05025 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Miniature sculpture on the kerb. Hint: look for it on the side of House No. 17 in Szabadság tér
Animal
Frog
41 Király utca, 15  

47.499344, 19.058711 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Plaque with tenants’ names
Copy the name of the tenant from flat No. 21
csukai józsef

Historical background Checkpoint picture 41

Look though the square peephole in the door. The stone wall in the end of the courtyard is the memorial Ghetto Wall. The Budapest ghetto was created on November 29, 1944, and soon it was surrounded by a high stone wall. The last remaining section of the ghetto wall was demolished here in 2006 but two years later it was restored as а memorial.
10 Szondi utca, 22

47.509364, 19.061885 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

3 Pajamas. Breakfast Club
Signature of an official

Stage 2

15 Horváth Mihály tér

47.489488, 19.074492 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Wooden signpost
Distance to Istanbul
1152 km
29 II. János Pál pápa tér

47.497379, 19.077389 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bust in the park
Copy the Hungarian name of the profession of the person the bust is dedicated to
fótoriportere
33 Izabella utca, 94

47.510877, 19.062873 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Lindenbaum's house (Lindenbaum ház)
Golden birds on the façade
peackocks
37 Entrance to Vörösmarty utca metro station (direction from the city centre)  

47.507287, 19.066612 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bench near the metro entrance
Musical instrument
Piano

Historical background Checkpoint picture 37

Opposite this checkpoint is one of the most famous museums of Budapest — the House of Terror (Terror Háza), the former Hungarian State Security Service. It contains exhibits related to the fascist and communist regimes in 20th-century Hungary and is also a memorial to their victims.
39 Public garden between Alsó erdősor utca and Izabella utca

47.502327, 19.074073 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Monument to a dog
Inscription on the collar
kutya
47 Dob utca, 85

47.503154, 19.069967 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

School. Mosaic above the ground floor
What game are the children in the middle of the mosaic playing?
Blind man's buff
52 Szövetség utca, 15

47.49952, 19.074054 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Mural painting beyond the wall
The sign on the roof of the painted house
BUDAPEST
55 Rózsák tere. Saint Elizabeth Church (Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet-plébániatemplom)  

47.500782, 19.076402 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Church garden. Small memorial plaque on the ground behind the church
Year in the first line of the inscription
1956

Historical background

St. Elisabeth Church in Rózsák tere was built against the design of Imre Steindl, the chief architect of the Hungarian Parliament. The stained glass windows were made by the famous artist Miksa Róth, while all the ironwork is the creation of Gyula Jungfer, and the pyrogranite decorative elements were manufactured in the famous Vilmos Zsolnay’s factory.
62 Víg utca, 26

47.493012, 19.073839 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bas-relief NOT above the entrance door to the building
Inscription on the snout of the ship
ATLANTIKA
20 Futó utca, 37

47.486199, 19.074485 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Cafe Frei on the second floor of Corvin Plaza shopping centre
Signature of an official

Stage 3

04 Bródy Sándor utca, 15

47.492697, 19.066359 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

House with a chimney sweep. A plaque over the gate to the yard
Copy the second word from the top line
Mozgas
07 Kazinczy utca, 3/a

47.495973, 19.064262 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Sign under the street nameplate
Copy the sign above the arrow
@
08 Puskin utca, 1

47.494639, 19.062636 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Memorial plaque dedicated to Aleksandr Pushkin
Copy Pushkin’s name in Hungarian from the plaque
Sándor ( или Sandor, Puskin Sandor, Puskin Sándor)
12 Horánszky utca, 20

47.491076, 19.067829 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Lampshades on the building
Top word on the left lampshade
loyola
14 Práter utca, 11  

47.48667, 19.072282 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Monument to the characters of “The Paul Street Boys” (“A Pál utcai fiúk”)
Year of the monument installation
2007

Historical background

First published in 1906, “The Paul Street Boys” by Ferenc Molnar became one of the most popular Hungarian children's books in the world. There is probably no Hungarian who has not read it. One of the novel's film adaptations was nominated for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1969.
19 Ferenczy István utca, 26

47.492849, 19.060104 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Remains of the medieval walls surrounding Pest
Number in the last line of the inscription on the memorial plaque
13
21 Ferenciek tere, 9

47.492957, 19.056205 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Memorial plaque to József Antall
Part of the body
Hands
22 Vitkovics Mihály utca, 3

47.49481, 19.056408 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Old signboard
Bird
Swan
42 Semmelweis utca, 19

47.495284, 19.057637 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Designer shop
Name of the flower
Rododendron
43 Papnövelde utca, 5-7

47.490884, 19.058018 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

University Church of St Mary the Virgin. “Historical Landmark” (Műemlék) memorial plaque
Third line from the bottom. Year
1776
51 Szabó Ervin tér  

47.489458, 19.063919 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Green second-hand book cart on the square
Cart number
5

Historical background Checkpoint picture 51

A fashionable building near to a green cart with second-hand books is the Erwin Sabo Central Library (Szabó Ervin tér 1). Once upon a time it was the well-known and loved by all the Budapest’s high society palace of the Wenkhein family. The marriage of Christina and Fridesh Wenkheim was scandalous. They were cousins and truly in love with each other, but all their relatives were against this misalliance. Christina was the heiress of a huge fortune and raised like a princess, but for everyone she was only a сhild of sin. Her dad was a Count, but her mother was a servant’s daughter. Like in fairytales, Christina and Arthur married against all the odds, and later all those people who were against this marriage became frequenters of their dancing routes in this building by architect Arthur Meinig. Now the Central Library is one of the best places in the city to spend some hours reading a book and having a cup of coffee in an outstanding, fairytale, almost Disney-ish environment.

Routes finish

99 Kazinczy utca, 14

47.496823, 19.063499 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Szimpla kert