Architecture, history & music

Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Transport: on foot, underground
Services: Interior tours of the music buildings possible
Languages: German, English, Hungarian, French, Italian
Group size: Max. 25 persons
Price: 680 EUR
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Starting from the medieval city centre of Pest, we discover already disappeared traces as well as outstanding buildings on the foundations of the past. We experience the city’s biggest building boom from the end of the 19th century, the beginning of modernity, politically motivated urban development from different eras and finally end up in the 21st century in a building that can only exist like this in Budapest. In the second part of this tour we are on the trail of music and architecture. The professionally renovated Opera House, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the House of Hungarian Music, inaugurated in 2022, provide different answers to the question of whether architecture is really “frozen music”.

Paris Courtyard (Henrik Schmahl, 1910 / Archikon, 2019)
Szervita Square (Béla Lajta, 1912 / DVM, 2021)
Cultural centre Akvárium (Firka Studio, 2002)
Central European University (Sheila O’Donnell & John Tuomey, 2017)
St Stephen’s Basilica with viewing platform (Miklós Ybl, 1906)
Hungarian State Opera House (Miklós Ybl, 1884 / Gábor Zoboki, 2022)
Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Flóris Korb & Kálmán Giergl, 1907 / Éva Magyari & Béla Pazár, 2013)
House of Hungarian Music (Sou Fujimoto, 2022)
Museum of Ethnography with city model (Napur Architect, 2022)

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