KultUnio

KultUnio Cluster – The Multicultural Quarter of Budapest

In the heart of Budapest, only few steps from Deák Ferenc Square and Andrássy Street you can find the Multicultural Quarter of Budapest, where everything can be reached on foot. It shows the city’s most diversified and most authentic face day and night. This part of the city is exciting and exceptional by the Great Synagogue with the Jewish quarter, the Király Street laced by lots of gastro shops, the wonderful architectural heritage of the narrow winding streets, secret gardens and courtyards and the worldfamous ruin pubs of Budapest. Moreover, something always happens here: concerts, festivals, shopping nights, exhibitions are waiting for the visitors all year.

In numbers there are: 220 architectural monuments and cultural heritage, 618 restaurants and cafés, 50 ruin pubs, 86 hotels, hostels, apartments, more than 1000 airbnb, 15 galleries, 25 dentists and health services, 20 guarded parking lots.

Our Mission

To show people everyday values we live or where we'll go next to them. Show you how to fit it in peace with each other in the past and present of this historic town, which is alive to tourists.

Gallery

Sights

The Dohány Street synagogue, designed by Ludwig Förstel, was opened in 1859 and is still the largest in Europe.

The New York Palace, the 260-year-old New York Café, won the title of World's Most Beautiful Café for the first time in 2011 and still represents the world's most beautiful café.

The Klauzál Square Market Hall is one of the great Budapest market halls built during the Monarchy.

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre at 8 Nagymező utca aims to promote world-famous Hungarian photography.

The Ghetto Wall Memorial on Dohány Street, built along the line of the former ghetto wall to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust.

Interesting facts about the street

Pest's old Jewish quarter is one of the oldest and most exciting parts of the capital, and from the mid-19th century it became home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe.

Akácfa, Nagydiófa and Kisdiófa streets are named after the gardens and orchards of the citizens of Pest living within the city walls in earlier centuries.

The roads leading to the outskirts of the city were far apart, giving rise to the gateway houses typical of the area, such as the Gozsdu courtyard.

In recent years, a succession of ruin pubs have opened in the buildings condemned to demolition, a unique feature of the capital's cultural life

At 16 Kazinczy Street is the only mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in Hungary.