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"The Castle Museum, a part of the diverse Budapest History Museum, unfolds the city's 2000-year history across four floors. Accessible from a two-level basement, restored palace rooms from the 15th century open to visitors, featuring three vaulted halls. One hall boasts a splendid Renaissance door frame in red marble displaying the seals of Queen Beatrix and King Matthias Corvinus. This leads to the Gothic and Renaissance Halls, King's Cellar (1480), and the 14th-century Tower Chapel. The ground floor displays highlight Budapest during the Middle Ages, showcasing Gothic statues discovered in 1974 and artifacts from a well dating back to Turkish times, including a 14th-century tapestry of the Hungarian coat of arms. The first floor features an engaging exhibit called 'Light & Shadow: 1000 Years of a Capital,' tracing Budapest's history through multimedia sections, examining housing, ethnic diversity, religion, and other themes over the centuries. On the second floor, exhibits stretch back to prehistoric times, covering Budapest's history until the end of the Avar period in the late 8th century. A comprehensive audio guide is available for 1200Ft."
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"If you like history, the Budapest History Museum (Budapest Torteneti Muzeum) is an ideal place to visit in the Buda Castle on the Castle Hill. The Budapest History Museum focus on the turbulent history of the 2000 years of the city. Here you get a glimpse into life before 1873 when Buda and Pest were united as well as life during the Habsburg monarchy. Opening hours: every day 10am to 6pm (closed on mondays) Price: 3,800 HUF / €10"
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"12:30 PM - Quite a large museum where you can explore the palace grounds and learn some history. I thought it was worth the visit! "

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A merger of two old cities in 1873 - Buda and Pest, separated by the Danube River - the capital of Hungary seems like a place out of a fairy tale. 🏰 With some castles here and some other majestic buildings there, I found it to be an elegant, chic and romantic city, with different cultural influences (such as Roman, Ottoman, Slavic, Jewish and Austrian). Known as the “Paris of the East” or the “Pearl of the Danube”, the city is also designated as the “City of SPAs”, therefore this guide includes a list of some famous thermal baths and SPAs, alongside dining/drinking and shopping venues. Of course, all the major tourist attractions are included, as well. ✨Must Do: go on an evening sightseeing cruise along the Danube! 🌶️Hungarian cuisine is synonymous with paprika. Few cuisines are quite so intertwined with a single ingredient as Hungary’s is with paprika — the spice that gives some of the country’s best-known dishes their intense orange colour and characteristic peppery flavour. Paprika is made from the dried ground pods of several types of capsicum annuum pepper, and it comes in a range of heat levels from édes (sweet) to csipos (hot) and different levels of coarseness. In Budapest it’s sold everywhere, from small grocery stores to local food markets, where small-scale producers sell it by the kilogram in unlabelled plastic bags. For the highest quality, seek reputable family producers such as Hódi or PaprikaMolnár.
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