Running City Budapest 2017

Stage 1

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

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

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

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.

64 Ferdínand híd

47.51383, 19.06198 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Lock on the railing of the bridge overlooking West End shopping centre

Word on the lock

vasutas

65 Falk Miksa utca

47.512615, 19.048848 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Statue of Peter Falk's iconic TV Detective Columbo

What is drawn on Columbo's tie?

House (small town, Runcity logo)

10 Szondi utca, 22

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

3 Pajamas. Breakfast Club

Signature of an official

Bonus checkpoints

03 Pedestrian walkway in Margitsziget park  

47.518954, 19.043781 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Memorial stone by a tree between the musical fountain and children's
playground

Kind of sport indicated on the stone

Bonus time 60 minutes

Penthatlon

Historical background

You can't have a car ride on this island - it's closed for the private transport. But you cant still use a bus or any of the eco-friendly bikes and electrocars here. The Margit island is a little archipelago consisting of three little islands. It was even drifting downstream. Now it's not: the northern side of the island was strenghteden. And it also was raised on 2 meteres not to let the floods bog it up. It's modern name Margaret's Island got in XIV сentury after the Dominican order monastery built here by the king Bela IV for her daughter Margareth. The Turks in 1541 occupied the monastery and used the buiding for the Pasha's Harem. You can still see what's rest from the walls and the church not far away from another beautiflu landmark, the Margaret Island Water Tower. In 1796 József Habsburg, a fan of parks and gardens, arranged here a cozy villa for his young russian wife Alexandra Pavlovna. To take care of the island's plants, trees and flowers he invited a man from Schönbrunn gardeners' dynasty. The first brahcny plane-trees you see on the island were planted here in József 's period. Margaret Island with it's rose and Japanese gardens, thermal baths and the biggest beach in the city is one the best places in Budapest to spend some hours or even a weekend.

13 Szent István park  

47.519132, 19.050947 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Monument To Raoul Wallenberg

How many human ears are there on the sculpture and the pedestal altogether?

Bonus time 30 minutes

3

Historical background

Here stands a monument to Raoul Wallenber — a legend man, who saved thousands of hungarian jews in 1944th. Born in a wealthy Swedish aristocratic family, Raoul got the superioir edication, he spoke several european languages and travelled the world. HIs powerfull granddad wanted him to be a banker or a business person, but Raoul didn't see himself as a moneymaker. During the World War II he emerged in Budapest with the mission to save lives of jewish people. He was always surrounded by wide range of of military men of all sorts, spies, Nazis, politicians and opportunists, dealers and fortune hunters. To accomplish his mission he used all means from bribery to pseudo-official Sweden documents for people from ghetto. He even bought and rented up to 30 houses in Budapest and declared them an Embassy compounds so that jews could live there. In 1945 he disappeared somewhere in Moscow prisons and believed to be killed in 1947th.

32 Hermina utca 18

47.511871, 19.095479 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Plaque with the story about the building

Architectural style referred to in the first line

Bonus time 45 minutes

Neobarokk

49 Vajdahunyad vár

47.51461, 19.08345 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bust at the southeast corner of Vajdahunyad castle

First digit on the pedestal

Bonus time 15 minutes

1

60 Orczy út, 37

47.48665, 19.092532 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Figurine of a mechanic on the fence

Woman's name written in black marker

Bonus time 30 minutes

Margrarita

Stage 2

15 Horváth Mihály tér

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

Wooden signpost

Distance to Istanbul

1152 km

17 Tent camp in Varosliget park by "Olaf Palme setany" trolley bus stop

47.512576, 19.084087 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Banner with the slogan dedicated to trees to the right of the monument

Copy the slogan

Don't cut all the trees, также зачитывается ответ ligetben ligetvédök

27 The Timewheel (Időkerék)  

47.512684, 19.080327 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Plaques with descriptions of the monument to the right of the hourglass. Quote used in the description

Author of the quote

Agoston

Historical background

The Timewheel (Időkerék) is one of the world's largest hourglasses: sand trickles down from the top to the bottom through a small opening in the glass. At the end of each year the wheel is supposed to be turned 180 degrees, which must be done by manual power using steel cables and it takes roughly 45 minutes. Since 2011 (circa) The Timewheel is broken.

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

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

48 Andrassy út, 124

47.51368, 19.07574 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Phone booth

Phone number written above the door to the booth

269-4603

53 Munkácsy Mihály utсa, 23  

47.514149, 19.071577 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Oval plaque on the wall to the right of the entrance to the building

Which party is mentioned on the plaque?

magyar demokrata fórum, democratic party

Historical background

This nice art nouveau building faces on the Epreskert Art Colony. The hungarian name, Epreskerti művésztelep, can't be more romantic. It means "Mulberry Garden". It was an artists' colony in Budapest in the last decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The colony occupied an oblong shaped block bounded by Bajza, Lendvay, Epreskert (after 1900 Munkácsy Mihály) and Kmety Street. The Epreskert was a municipal garden of mulberry trees on the outskirts of Pest which remained in agricultural usage until the 1870s. After the opening of Andrássy Avenue in 1871 the commercial value of the plot went up and urbanization began. In 1879 the municipal council donated a parcel on the corner of Bajza and Lendvay Streets to Adolf Huszár, a renowned sculptor who worked on prestigious municipal projects but was in need of a suitable workshop. Two years later Huszár built an atelier in fashionable Neo-Renaissance style and became the first artist to live there. In 1886 the block was divided into ten lots for ateliers. The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (now Hungarian University of Fine Arts) established its campus on the other side of Kmety Street. Normally now only the art students have access to this area. If you happen to be in Budapest during the Museum or Art night, you shoud use the rare opportunity to take a romantic walk among the high old trees and ateliers, and see the nicely renovated Calvary building from the 18th century and the remaining stones of the Church of Mary. For a really unusual sight these days, look for the Lenin statue on the Bajza utca side of the garden.

58 Intersection of Szif and Nemeth Laszlo  

47.507799, 19.070762 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Crossed-out and current address plaques on the building

Redraw or write down the name of the sign which distinguishes the house numbers on the plaques

/ или стрелочка

Historical background

There is a local law obliging keeping old adrress plates on the buildings for at least two years after the renaming. The old ones should be crossed with a thick red line. We, city guests and explorers, can only thank the city managers for beeing that kind!

59 Dembinszky utca, 12  

47.505954, 19.076622 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Mirror in one of the showcases overlooking Ligetváros Remiz Sétány

Text NOT inverted in the mirror

Try a new view

Historical background

Ligetváros Remiz Sétány is a former tram depot. It was built in 1897 to serve the tram line connecting the Keleti station with the Városliget. After the World War II, the tramway rails were removed and this place became a trolleybus depot. In the nineties, it was closed, and the vacant premises were sold to a private developer.

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

05 Apáczai Csere János utca, 7

47.494897, 19.050057 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Sign with the water level mark during one of Budapest floods

Which year was this flood in?

1838

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)

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

30 Underground section of Fővám tér transfer hub  

47.485849, 19.057846 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Board with a legend to exit D

Transport number with a letter shown on the board

979 / 979A

Historical background

The Fővám tér (The Customs Sqaure) is well-known for the gorgeous Budapests' Market. The building had a truly complicated bio. There was a fire during construction, there were the bombings of the World War II as well, and the reconstruction it the 90ies, and we can't tell you what was the most imporntant and contributed mostly to the building's look. This huge and shiny mastodont has several levels, with fruits and veggies, with refrigiratios filled with meat and fish, and with cafes and traditional hungarian souvenirs. The other significant landmark here is the M4 station. The Fővám tér and the Szent Gellért tér stations created by Spora Architects got several designer awards for their modern look and symbolic post-modern meaning. The architects call these stations the Ungergroung City Social Utopia.

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

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.

61 Baross utca

47.488948, 19.080935 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Muzsikus cigányok parkja

How many fiddlesticks are the on the musicians’ commemorative stelae?

5