Fabulous Budapest

city park (városliget, lit. city's grove, medieval: ökör-d?l?, meaning "oxmeadow", german: stadtwäldchen ), xivi. (its main entrance is at heroes' square (h'sök tere), metro 1 ). this is a public park close to the centre. - sights: - the vajdahunyad castle, presenting the major art styles and housing the agricultural museum today (first built in 1896, in its present state finished in 1907), - the széchenyi medicinal baths and swimming pool (széchenyi gyógyfürd? és uszoda, address: xiv. állatkerti krt. 11), one of europe's largest bath complexes built in 1913, - the municipal zoological and botanical garden (f?városi állat- és növénykert, address: xiv. állatkerti krt. 6-12) founded in 1866, built in its present state in 1912, expanded and improved since several times), - the budapest circus (f?városi nagycirkusz, 1971, xiv. állatkerti krt. 12/a.), - the budapest amusement park (vidám park, xiv. állatkerti krt. 14-16) with a separate amusement park for small children include a roller coaster, (hullámvasút), built in 1922 after the plans of ervin dragon, is 17 m in height and travels 980 m in five minutes. it is one of the ten remaining side friction roller coasters in the world also here the merry-go-round was built in 1906 and its cave railway in 1912. along with the roller coaster these are considered to be historic monuments; - the salon (millennium szalon) in olof palme house (1885); - the transport museum of budapest (közlekedési múzeum 1899, address: xiv. városligeti krt. 11.); - the aviation museum of budapest; - city park pond (városligeti-tó), used as an ice rink in winter, the largest outdoor skating-rink officially ice rink of the city park (f?városi önkormányzat városligeti m?jégpálya, address: xiv. olof palme sétány 5.) in central europe (1926), with a hall built in 1894; - the pet?fi hall (pet?fi csarnok f?városi ifjúsági szabadid? központ, address: xiv. zichy mihály út 14 ), a youth leisure centre (1985); - the time wheel (id?kerék, janáky i. herner j., 2004; behind the palace of art); - the monument of the 1956 revolution, completed in 2006 for the 50th anniversary of the historic event; - a spacious procession square (used for several purposes); - sports grounds, playgrounds, meadows, esplanades (e.g. one named after olof palme), several statues (among others, of george washington and winston churchill see more down), a memorial for anna lindh, a botanical garden and a transport park for children. - restaurants in the park: - the gundel restaurant, one of hungary's most famous, founded in 1879, residing in its present building since 1894 (address: xiv. állatkerti út 2); - robinson restaurant (xiv., city park lake), széchenyi garden restaurant (széchenyi étterem kertvendégl?, xiv. állatkerti krt. 9-11.) - anonymous restaurant (anonymus étterem. xiv. kós károly sétány 1.)