Pest - VI

District VI, the 6th district on the Pest side, is probably one of the nicest districts in Budapest with its cozy alleys and beautiful buildings. The whole Andrássy Avenue goes through this district the whole way from the Heroes Square to the 5th district. Budapest's largest train station, Nyugati, is also in the 6th district.

Nyugati Station (Western Railway Station), the first thing we saw of Budapest after arriving by train from Krakow (the one on the picture) via Czech Republic and Slovakia. The night train took 11 hours.
It is the largest and most famous train station in Budapest and was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same man that designed the Eiffel Tower. Be sure to avoid the toilets! Many homeless people and beggars hang around around the station plus we got cheated by the taxi driver, so our first impressions of Budapest wasn't very good. We didn't go to the area around the station more than once.

On Benczúr utca and other streets around Andrássy, there are many nice alleys like this with huge trees and beautiful buildings hosting exclusive residences and offices around it. Probably some of the nicest streets in Budapest.

Andrássy út, the most famous avenue in Budapest.
This picture was taken somewhere on the northeastern part of Andrássy.

House of Terror. A neorenaissance mansion that was used as a torture center by both Hungarian facists and communist Soviets.
Notice the sign "Terror" on the roof!

The "terror" sign was added when it became a museum in 2002, made by the designer Attila F Kovács.

Oktogon. A square with 8 edges. We had a small diner at the Burger King below the Mc Donalds sign (!), but except for that we tried to eat only Hungarian, or at least not on fastfood restaurants.

Further on it is narrower and has beautiful trees that covers the top. That is the nicest part of the avenue. What I think is nice is that the avenue has both an exclusive feeling with brand stores and a more bohemian young atmosphere.

Hungarian State Opera House at Andrássy. This Renaissance building was completed in 1884 during Austria-Hungary and reconstructed in 1984.

Another grandiose building on Andrássy.