Themed city walks on both Buda and Pest are back on a guaranteed schedule with Imagine, taking you inside Budapest’s most beautiful landmarks and wildest tales. Expect playful storytelling, architectural deep dives, culinary detours, and access to special locations—perfect for locals who think they’ve seen it all and visitors who want the city under their skin. Family-friendly discovery walks run citywide, and companies can book team-building tours too. Dates are firm, but organizers reserve the right to change programs and times.
Palaces, Passageways, Legends
The Adria Palace (Adria-palota) – Atlantis Above Ground tour peels back the layers of a grand downtown palace, while the Paris Court (Párisi Udvar) – Luxury Dream tour revels in the jaw-dropping arcade where Neo-Gothic meets Art Nouveau under a cascade of glass and ceramic. Palace stories ripple along Andrássy Avenue (Andrássy út) in Urban Codebreaking – Palace Tales, a gamified walk that decodes façades, symbols, and old gossip on the city’s grandest boulevard. Over on Liberty Square (Szabadság tér), From Stock Exchange Palace to TV Headquarters opens the monumental No. 17 building—once the powerhouse of finance, later a broadcast citadel.
Stages, Baths, and Rebirths
B, mint balett, W, mint W Budapest tracks the rebirth of an iconic building: from a temple of ballet to the W Budapest hotel’s sleek reinvention—heritage preserved, atmosphere transformed. The Legendary Gellért cracks open the intertwined past of the famous hotel and bath, mixing architectural marvels with sparkling anecdotes from the Danube’s edge. These tours return across January and early February with multiple time slots to snag.
Hidden Lives and Bold Voices
Intimate Secrets at the Turn of the Century dives into women’s everyday lives in old Budapest—fashion, etiquette, constraints, and rebellions included. Diva and Nightingale asks, what is a woman worth when the stage lights glare and society sets the rules? These evening tours bring the fin-de-siècle’s smoky rooms and sharp edges to life.
Food, Sweetness, and Story
Édes élet – The Sweet Life traces Budapest’s dessert heritage, from coffeehouse cakes to candy legends. Literary Gastro Walk (Irodalmi gasztroséta) on the Lágymányos “pampas” blends literature with bites—more than food for thought. Tasting from Italy (Kóstoló Olaszországból) serves Italian flavors at Pomo D’Oro with stories from the past, turning a tasting into a time machine. And the big Gundel story plates up the secrets of hospitality—recipes, rituals, and how a restaurant became an institution.
Jewish Quarter, Millennium, and the Yellow House
Stories from the Synagogue Triangle guides you through the Pest Jewish Quarter’s sacred geometry and street-level memories. Once Upon a Millennium, hosted on select evenings with historian Csaba Katona (Katona Csaba), revives the age when Budapest dressed for a world’s fair, and the city remade itself in stone and steel. Once There Was a Yellow House recounts the haunting history of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology—Budapest’s vanished mental hospital, a place of scientific ambition and deep stigma.
Aristocrats at Home
Inside the Csekonics Palace, the Aristocratic Lifestyle on the Table tour lays out how the elite lived: interiors, dining, etiquette, and everyday pageantry. Slots stack up on January 17 with rolling entries from morning to early evening, making it one of the hottest tickets in this lineup.
Crime, Clues, and City Myths
People talk… and the city remembers. Crime Stories and Gossip in Budapest threads through whispers and headlines, from con artists to unresolved mysteries. Urban Codebreaking returns at the end of the month to turn Andrássy Avenue (Andrássy út) into a puzzle box again—perfect for those who like their architecture with riddles attached.
Dates You Can Grab Now
Highlights run from January 11 to February 8, 2026:
– Jan 11: Adria Palace; Urban Codebreaking; B/W Budapest in multiple slots; Paris Court.
– Jan 13–15: Intimate Secrets; Diva and Nightingale; Paris Court; Legendary Gellért.
– Jan 17–18: A marathon of Csekonics Palace entries; Stock Exchange to TV House tours all day; Sweet Life; B/W Budapest; Synagogue Triangle; Literary Gastro Walk; Adria Palace; multiple Paris Court sessions.
– Jan 20–22: Once Upon a Millennium; Paris Court; Budapest Quiz Station (quiz night).
– Jan 24–25: Adria Palace; B/W Budapest; Paris Court; heavy rotation at Liberty Square 17; Sweet Life; Gundel story.
– Jan 28–31: Yellow House; more Paris Court; Stock Exchange to TV House; Urban Codebreaking; Adria Palace; Once Upon a Millennium returns.
– Feb 1–8: Dense runs inside Liberty Square 17; Paris Court; Legendary Gellért; Italian tasting at Pomo D’Oro; Yellow House encore.
How to Choose
– Love interiors and restoration? Go for Paris Court, Adria Palace, Csekonics Palace, and B/W Budapest.
– Into city power and big stones? Book the Stock Exchange to TV House walk on Liberty Square.
– Craving stories with bite? Pick Sweet Life, the Literary Gastro Walk, the Italian tasting, or the Gundel saga.
– Drawn to social history? Intimate Secrets, Diva and Nightingale, Yellow House, Synagogue Triangle, and Once Upon a Millennium will keep you rapt.
– Fancy a game? Urban Codebreaking on Andrássy Avenue is your move.
Plan, Book, Go
These are guided, family-friendly, English-friendly experiences with guaranteed start times and the kind of access that turns a stroll into a story. Slots repeat, but the best ones evaporate fast. Check your preferred date and hour, lace up, and meet Budapest where it sings—under vaulted glass, behind palace doors, inside steam-filled legends. Organizers reserve the right to change dates and programs.
