First stop Budapest Parliament which was made during the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and far greater than needed. Today the parliament occupies about 10% of the building. We stopped at the kids favorite museum so far, the Pin Ball Museum!

Hungarian Parliament (Országház) The Parliament was built from 1885 to 1902 to celebrate the Hungarian millennium year of 1896 (see sidebar on here). Its elegant, frilly spires and riverside location were inspired by its counterpart in London (where the architect studied). When completed, the Parliament was a striking and cutting-edge example of the mix-and-match Historicist style of the day. Like the Hungarian people, this building is at once grandly ambitious and a somewhat motley hodgepodge of various influences—a Neo-Gothic palace topped with a Neo-Renaissance dome, which once had a huge, red communist star on top of the tallest spire.

Attila József (1905-1937)
This beloved modern poet lived a tumultuous, productive, and short life before he killed himself by jumping in front of a train at age 32.
József’s poems of life, love, and death-mostly written in the 1920s and 1930s are considered the high point of Hungarian literature. His birthday (April 11) is celebrated as National Hungarian Poetry Day.

Holocaust Monument Consisting of 50 pairs of bronze shoes, this monument commemorates the Jews who were killed when the Nazis’ puppet government, the Arrow Cross, came to power in Hungary in 1944. While many Jews were sent to concentration camps, the Arrow Cross massacred some of them right here, shooting them and letting their bodies fall into the Danube. Famous Chain Bridge that connects Buda to Pest and the Buda Castle up on the hill.

Continuing on the Pest side we solved a mystery in a Harry Potter themed escape room and a cruise down the Danube River.