Browse highlights from my Budapest private tours gallery and Budapest walking tours — real moments with travellers around Heroes’ Square, the Basilica, the Parliament and the Buda Castle District. I’m Julia, a licensed guide (EN/FR). Enjoy the photos, read reviews, and discover ideas for your own day in Budapest.
Great tour of the Jewish Quarter – Julia was a wonderful tour guide. She is full of knowledge and enthusiasm, and gave us a fascinating tour all around the Jewish Quarter. We highly recommend her.
We met Julia for a four hour tour of Budapest and it flew by. It’s great to have the perspective of a born and bred local. What I loved about the tour was how Julia connected the sights to history over many eras. The history of Budapest through the years is fascinating and Julia has a broad knowledge of history and pulled it all together for us in an interesting narrative. We happened to visit on a national holiday and she explained the significance of it as it relates to current events. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with her and highly recommend her as a guide. She’s one of the best guides we’ve ever had and we travel frequently.
Great overall guide to Budapest. My husband and I just spent a fun & lovely afternoon with Julia who showed extensively around the Buda castle area, the Heroes monument & City Park. She shared much about the history and current perspectives in Hungary. Would highly recommend her for helping acquaint you to Budapest. she also helped us with other items on our itinerary here and in the Czech Republic- she is a very thoughtful person.
I’m Julia Kravianszky, a licensed private guide in Budapest offering tailored tours in English and French — history, architecture, cafés and panoramic viewpoints at your pace.
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Just north of Budapest, the Danube makes one of its most beautiful turns, winding between forested hills, medieval castles and historic towns. This is the Danube Bend, one of Hungary’s most spectacular landscapes and a wonderful destination for a day trip from Budapest. One river. Endless stories. Imagine admiring breathtaking views from a mountain lookout,
On 23 October 1956, the people of Budapest took to the streets to demand freedom, democracy and an end to Soviet domination. What began as a peaceful student demonstration became the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, one of the most important events in Hungary’s modern history. Seventy years later, Budapest still remembers. October 1956: A City
Budapest has a secret signature. And once you begin exploring Ödön Lechner, you’ll start recognising his style everywhere: in the curve of a window, the shape of a roof, a colourful ceramic tile or an unusual pattern decorating a façade. You can find it in the curve of a window, the shape of a roof,
One of the questions I am often asked on my tours is why Buda and Pest feel so different. The difference between Buda and Pest becomes surprisingly obvious once you cross the Danube. Buda is the hilly western side of the Danube; Pest is the flatter eastern side. On the Buda side, streets climb into
The Matthias Church roof is one of those Budapest sights I thought I knew very well. I have walked past it hundreds of times, shown it to countless guests and photographed it from almost every direction. Then, the other day, I started looking at the tiles. Not the roof. The individual tiles. And suddenly one
Once you start looking up in Budapest, certain details become impossible to ignore. Budapest balconies come in every imaginable shape and size, but one particular type always catches my eye: a large façade with rows and rows of windows — and just one balcony. Sometimes it is delicate wrought iron. Sometimes it is supported by
