Tour Facts
Meeting point
Start: Elisabeth (Erzsebet) square
Near Budapest Eye Ferris wheel.
End:
Matthias Church,
Fisherman’s Bastion area on Castle Hill.
(open in Google Maps)
Language
English
Duration
~ 2 – 2,5 hours
Price
FREE TO JOIN
Pay what you want at the end! 🙂
Explore Urban Budapest on this Free Walking Tour
Join us to discover the alternative face of Budapest. A city that is marked with an interesting past and exciting present.
Come with us and discover the colorfully painted walls of the Jewish quarter and how an innovation was created in the area during recent years by graffiti artists and the city.
On this 2-2.5 hour long tour we are going to guide you to the colorful Jewish quarter of Budapest with its different faces during the day and night. What we gonna explore on this tour are painted murals and street art of this astonishing area.
Since 2011 various firewalls or also called partition walls have become a canvas for artists in the Jewish Quarter. During this cozy walk, we will introduce you to the artistic face of the quarter and fulfilled with a short history as well, which is a perfect experience for curious travelers and explorers.
What you´ll get in this free tour
You will be shown around by a motivated, local guide.
Not only will you experience our picks for the top street art pieces in this part of the city, but also hidden gems and interesting stories.
Get to know awesome people from around the world. The maximum group size is limited so you can easily understand the guide.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Follow this Google Maps link. If you have arrived at the meeting point, your guide will be holding up the FREE BUDAPEST WALKING TOURS maps and leaflets and will be in uniform blue T-shirt.
You can book the tour by going to our booking page and entering your details in the form. Afterwards you will receive a confirmation email with the date and time of your booked tour. Thats it! If you want to book the tour for groups larger than 8 people, please contact us via our contact form.
Following sights will be included in your tour:
- Sissy
- Hungarian invention: Rubik’s cube
- Famous 6:3 football game played by Hungary and England
- Polish-Hungarian friendship
- Cover of Time magazine in 1957
- And many more…
You can join the tour without any admission fee. At the end of the tour you decide how much you would like to pay for the tour. If you are not happy with the quality provided, please give feedback to the guide after the tour has ended and tell him your concerns.
No absolutely not. Guides depend 100% on your generous tip after the tour. So please always talk to the guide if you were not happy with the quality of the tour, otherwise the guide can´t improve the tour.
It always depends on your happiness after the tour. We recommend between 8-15€, but there is no limit to the top! 😉
This tour will be provided in English.
We recommend always to book the tour in advance.
That can be easily done through our booking page.
Each tour starts on time so please try to be punctual. The tour leaves the meeting point in about 10-12 minutes after the start time out of respect for those who did arrive on time. Our logistic assistant however is waiting for the late comers for another 5-8 minutes after he tour has started.
If you are running late or missed the meeting point location, please contact us +36209605295
Yes, we have a scheduled toilet break during our 10.30AM & 2.30PM walking tours. We would recommend bringing a bottle of cold drink in the summer, that you can refill at the public drinking fountains while walking.
Free Budapest Walking Tours are held rain or shine. Wet weather gear is useful. We do some route adjusments to accommodate poor weather conditions.
By agreeing to participate in our tours, our guests accept that they are fully responsible for any injury, damage, loss or theft sustained by them during course of the tour, and by joining the tour, the customer waives all rights to make any claim against the tour guide and/or the operators of the Free Budapest Walking Tours in connection with any such events. Accordingly, the Free Budapest Walking Tours does not accept any responsibility nor does it assume any liability for any such events. The Free Budapest Walking Tours reserves the right to deny participation of any individual in the tour, for any reason whatsoever, should our guide feel this is necessary prior to or during course of the tour.
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