
Budapest is Hungary's capital on the River Danube, created in 1873 by uniting hilly Buda and Óbuda with low-lying Pest.
The Danube divides the city between the castle hill on the Buda bank and the boulevards of Pest, with the riverfront, Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue jointly inscribed by UNESCO. Visitors climb to Fisherman's Bastion, tour the neo-Gothic Hungarian Parliament Building and bathe in thermal spas such as Széchenyi and Gellért, fed by the city's hot springs.