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Petőfi Literary Museum

Museum

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The Petőfi Literary Museum is a major Hungarian museum in Budapest. It was founded in 1954, as the successor organisation to Petőfi House and, today, is housed in the former Károlyi Palace. It was named to honour the memory of Sándor Petőfi. Petőfi Literary Museum is situated 150 metres southeast of ELTE University Library.

Peter of Alcantara Church, Budapest

Church

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Ferenciek tere metro station

Metro station

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Ferenciek tere is a station on the M3 line of the Budapest Metro located under the eponymous square in the Downtown. It is an important junction, as several bus lines from Buda pass through or terminate here.

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Belváros

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Belváros or Downtown is the V. District of Budapest. It consists of two historic neighbourhoods with well-defined borders within the V. District - Lipótváros in the north includes the Parliament and many governmental buildings, Szent István Basilica and some museums, while the southern part is mostly high-class accommodations, shops and nightlife area.

Pest

Suburb

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Pest is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the eastern bank of the Danube. Pest was administratively unified with Buda and Óbuda in 1873.

Budapest’s Palace District

Suburb

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Budapest's Palotanegyed forms an inner part of Pest, the eastern half of Budapest. Known until the communist period as the ‘Magnates’ Quarter’, it consists of the most westerly part of the city's Eighth District, or Józsefváros, which was named on 7 November 1777 after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, who reigned 1765-1790.

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