1st DAY Arrival at
Budapest
First walk in
the quart Buda for the visit to discover the legends that are bounded to this
magical city.
We will start
from the Buda’s Castle, one of the city’s symbols, which seems to observe the
city from a highness with its elegance and
majesty.
According to the
people’s believes, the castle is one of the most haunted places in the city.
It seems in fact
that every night the spirits of the past kings start to circle in the halls and
the cortiles of the palace, that the ghosts of the warriors are making duels
and are drinking in the streets of the quart and those of court ladies wander
in search of the lost loves.
After that we
will go inside the cortile where there are some museums and the National
Hungarian Gallery, right inside this court there is the Mattia’s fountain, one
monumental creation, realized between the 1800 and 1900 and represents one of
the love most tragic legends bounded to the Hungarian crown, the history of the
“beautiful Ilona”.
Ilona was a very
beautiful girl, from humble origins who one day, during a walk in the forest,
ran into a charming man, engaged in a hunting trip; both of them fall in love
on first side in each other. Only after short time the girl discovered that
this man was in fact the King Mattia, and she ran away realizing that their was
an impossible love, so she let herself die... a truth or a legend the statue of the beautiful Ilona is right
there on the right side of the fountain...
Accommodation in
a hotel
Dinner and
overnight
2nd
DAY
Breakfast in a hotel
A meeting with
the guide for a nice walk in the city’s
park of Varosliget, inside we will see some of the city’s attractions, the zoo
and the botanic garden, the Szechenys Baths, between tho most famous thermal
waters in the city and the Castle of Vajdahunyad.
Inside of the
castle’s walls there is a statue from one of the city’s legends, the one of
Anonymous, according to the legend who will touch the writer’s pen will be a
famous writer...
We will proceed
after that the visit moving to Cafè Gerbeaude for a break, one of the
most antique coffee shops and bakeries of the city. Its delicious and magical
cakes and its elegant furniture makes it a place to must visit.
According to one metropolitan legend this wasn’t in the
past a place where you can make only Hungarian sweets, it seems in fact that it
was a meeting point for the bourgeois of a certain age, single or widows, who
were looking for a “company”. According to the word of mouth if one young gay
was interested he needed to make two signs: put the fork or the spoon upside
down after finishing the cake Dobos and make an order for a sparkling water.
Free lunch
3rd DAY
Breakfast
Time at disposal for the individual visits.