Buda
Buda is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the western bank of the Danube. Historically, "Buda" referred only to the royal walled city on Castle Hill, which was constructed by Béla IV between 1247 and 1249 and subsequently served as the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1361 to 1873.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: western part of Budapest, Hungary, former independent city
- Also known as: “Ofen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matthias Church and Hospital in the Rock.
Matthias Church
Church
Photo: Thaler Tamas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle, more commonly known as the Matthias Church and more rarely as the Coronation Church of Buda, is a Catholic church in Holy Trinity Square, Budapest, Hungary, in front of the Fisherman's Bastion at the heart of Buda's Castle District.
Hospital in the Rock
Museum
The Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum is the name given to a hospital created in the caverns under Buda Castle in Budapest in the 1930s, in preparation for the Second World War.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Budavár and Víziváros.
Budavár
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Budavár, Vár or Várnegyed is in Budapest, located on Castle Hill. It is the highlight of the 1st district. You can walk around the old romantic streets of the hill or see a great view of Pest from there.
Víziváros
Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Víziváros is in Budapest. This article describes the outer part of the 1st district, which includes parts of Gellérthegy, Krisztinaváros, Tabán and Víziváros.
Tabán
Suburb
The Tabán usually refers to an area within the 1st district of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It lies on the Buda side of the Danube, to the south of György Dózsa Square, on the northern side of Elisabeth Bridge and to the east of Naphegy.
Buda
- Category: city
- Location: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Buda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Boeda”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Akouinkon”
- Arabic: “بودا”
- Arabic: “بودين”
- Aragonese: “Buda”
- Aragonese: “Pest”
- Armenian: “Բուդա”
- Asturian: “Buda”
- Azerbaijani: “Buda”
- Azerbaijani: “Budin”
- Basque: “Buda”
- Belarusian: “Буда”
- Bosnian: “Budim”
- Bulgarian: “Budim”
- Bulgarian: “Буда”
- Bulgarian: “Обуда”
- Catalan: “Buda”
- Chechen: “Буда”
- Chinese: “布达”
- Chinese: “布達”
- Croatian: “Budim”
- Czech: “Budín”
- Danish: “Buda”
- Dutch: “Boeda”
- Dutch: “Ofen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بودا”
- Esperanto: “Aquincum”
- Esperanto: “Buda”
- Esperanto: “Budao”
- Esperanto: “Budim”
- Esperanto: “Ofen”
- Estonian: “Buda”
- Finnish: “Buda”
- French: “Buda”
- Galician: “Buda”
- Georgian: “ბუდა”
- German: “Altofen”
- German: “Aquincum”
- German: “Buda”
- German: “Budim”
- German: “Ofen”
- Greek: “Βούδα”
- Hebrew: “אופן”
- Hebrew: “בודה”
- Hungarian: “Buda”
- Ido: “Buda”
- Indonesian: “Buda, Hungaria”
- Irish: “Buda”
- Italian: “Buda”
- Japanese: “ブーダ”
- Japanese: “ブダ”
- Kazakh: “Bwda”
- Kazakh: “Буда”
- Kazakh: “بۋدا”
- Korean: “부더”
- Kurdish: “Buda, Budapeşt”
- Kurdish: “Buda”
- Kurdish: “بودا”
- Latin: “Aquincum”
- Latin: “Buda”
- Latin: “Budae”
- Lithuanian: “Buda (Vengrija)”
- Lithuanian: “Buda”
- Macedonian: “Budim”
- Macedonian: “Буда”
- Macedonian: “Будим”
- Malay: “Buda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buda”
- Ossetian: “Будæ”
- Ossetian: “Офен”
- Persian: “بودا”
- Polish: “Buda”
- Portuguese: “Buda”
- Romanian: “Buda”
- Romanian: “Cetatea Buda”
- Russian: “Буда”
- Russian: “Офен”
- Rusyn: “Будин”
- Scots: “Buda”
- Serbian: “Budim”
- Serbian: “Будим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Budim”
- Slovak: “Budín”
- Slovenian: “Buda”
- Slovenian: “Budim”
- Spanish: “Buda”
- Swedish: “Buda”
- Thai: “Buda”
- Thai: “Ofen”
- Thai: “บูดอ”
- Thai: “บูดา”
- Thai: “เมืองบูดา”
- Turkish: “Budin”
- Ukrainian: “Буда”
- Uzbek: “Buda”
- Vietnamese: “Buda”
- Welsh: “Buda”
- Western Armenian: “Պուտա”
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