Palace Quarter

The Palace District is the pulsating heart of Budapest’s 8th District and a direct extension of the Pest city center; over the years, the intersection of Mikszáth Square and Gyula Krúdy Street has evolved into a genuine gastronomic and cultural hub. Their goal is to showcase the diversity that this area represents. The district has since expanded to include Baross Street, Sándor Bródy Street, and Lőrincz Pap Square.

Why Visit?

The atmosphere is welcoming and family-friendly; you can enjoy great food and drinks while being entertained. Every month, they organize a mini-festival showcasing a culinary specialty or a specific national cuisine. In the summer, you can also occasionally find an open-air cinema in the square.

Our Mission

Become a gastronomic and cultural hub, where all the young people and families having fun in a friendly atmosphere and intimate setting

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Sights

The Hungarian National Museum is the largest museum in Hungary, with a huge amount of historical artefacts collected over the 200 years since its foundation, and the Museum Garden is a popular relaxation garden on weekdays. (photo: TelekomSpot)

The pillared balcony of the Adam's Palace at 4 Bródy Sándor Street is decorated with beautiful original frescoes by Károly Lotz, restored a few years ago. (photo: Bako Bettina)

Designed by Miklós Ybl, the Count Festetics Palace at 3 Pollack Mihály Square - now Andrássy University - was modelled on Italian palaces and is one of the most beautiful in Budapest. (photo: WeLoveBp_RockstarsPhotographers)

The Wenckheim Palace has been home to the Szabó Ervin Library of Budapest for almost 100 years, and its period rooms and salons, now converted into reading rooms, are used by students and researchers. (photo: Wikimedia.org)

The Jesuit Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands on the atmospheric Lőrinc Priest Square, a distinctive red-brick building with Gothic elements built in the late 1800s from public donations. (photo: Wikimedia.org)

Interesting facts about the street

Mikszáth Kálmán Square is named after the famous writer, who spent his last years in one of the houses on the square.

The name "Palotanegyed" comes from the fact that in the second half of the 19th century, when the National Museum and the House of Representatives - now the Italian Institute of Culture - were built, all the important aristocratic families in the area had a palace built.

The area was also known as the 'Little Vatican' because of the Jesuit order that settled here at the end of the 19th century.

The Emich Palace at 16 Horánszky Street, still under renovation, is often used as a location for film shoots because of its ancient staircases, fascinating stained glass windows and Venetian terrazzino floors, which sometimes feature mythical creatures.

The small pavilion in the garden of the National Museum now houses a pastry shop named after Countess Geraldine Apponyi, who worked in the museum kiosk in the 1930s and later became the wife of the Albanian King Zogu I.