Budapest again looks more like the “Shopping Mecca” of 100 years ago that an ex-communist country. Except for the first half of the ’50s, food always available here, but budapestinos and visitors for decades esquiciteses be dispensed with in life.
Nowadays there are two typical trends: “big is beautiful” and “small is beautiful”, it has built huge malls that fundamentally changed the daily habits of purchasing budapestinos. Among these malls the largest and perhaps most interesting from an architectural point of view is the WestEnd Shopping Center .
At the same time, with surprising rapidity were created refined style stores that offer luxury, which sells anything from old materials be they construction, picture frames, specialty cheese, of snuff pipe, of a book from the time of Newton, rare bakelite disc, from a manuscript of Wagner or an old pocket watch. True emotions in Budapest offer visits to major food markets and the flea market Ecseri street. There is also a good range of luxury hotels available in Budapest for those on a luxury travel budget.
It is also worth going to call the antique street, Falk Miksa Street, in existence since 1990 in the city center, which – as in Paris and Rome – offers its products in a concentrated form.
SIX MAJOR FOOD MARKETS
Great Market (district V. avda.Vámház, no. 1-3) is located near the Danube. Formerly ship brought here from the Danube food by underground tunnels. Buy products “craft” in this area is not always good business.
Hold Market Street (District V, c / Hold, no. 13) A beautiful jewelry box in the center of town, near the Parliament.
Rákóczi Market Square (District VIII, Rákóczi square, no. 7-9) The Budapest daily, not tourists.
Hunyadi Market Square (District VI, Hunyadi Square) The single market is not renewed since 1990, opened in 1997 in a grocery sore known for gourmans.
Klauzál Market Square (district VII, Square Klauzál) In the center of the old Jewish quarter.
Batthyány Market Square (District I, square Batthyány, no. 5). A beautifully renovated Market in 2003. The first floor has coffee shops and a very pleasant, with excellent view over one of the most beautiful squares of Budapest and the Parliament.
FLEA MARKET AND ANTIQUE SHOPS
Flea Ecseri (1194 c / Nagyk?rösi 156)
Visit this truly is an excellent trail metropolitan programana for foreigners and nationals as well. Since the mid-19th century it was increasingly moving out of town. In mid 1960 he moved from the street Ecseri definitely the current site, but even today is still called “Trail Ecseri.
Its other popular name is “Tango”. The total area of Ecseri Rastro is 16,500 meters square. Over most of this area there is a protective roof against the rain, so when bad weather also worth visiting. Hours Monday through Friday: 08:00 to 16:00, Saturdays: from 06.00 to 15.00, Sundays from 08.00 to 13.00. Collectors are really serious on Saturday morning early, when the tourists are still sleeping. Public transport: bus no. Boráros 54 from the square. Journey time 22 minutes, off peak hours.
Market Spikes Budapest, Pet?fi past the Colosseum (1146 c / Zichy Mihály, no. 14) All Saturdays and Sundays from 8.00 to 14.00. Among the hundreds of sellers are few professionals. Most are amateur or poor man. It is the true cross section of society marginalized in Budapest. But serious collectors can find some treasures there not recognized
Pintér (district V. c / Falk Miksa, no.10) One of the interesting shops of Falk Miksa Street with two modest windows facing the street. But inside is a whole universe: paintings, furniture, lamps, all in 1800 square meters.
Nagyházi Gallery (Budapest V. district, c / Balaton, no. 8, esq. C / Falk Miksa). A very large shop, with paintings, furniture and folk textiles. They also organize auctions.
Avda Múzeum – street of antique shops (district V. Avda. Múzeum, from Astoria to the Plaza Hotel Kalvin). More than a dozen shops, from used books to specialties true. Printed very ancient manuscripts, postcards. Hours generally weekday: from 10:00 to 18:00, Saturdays from 10.00 to 14.00.
HUNGARIAN souvenirs SIX GIFTS
Tokaj Wine - As is known, in the Tokaj region are only white grape species, but these grapes are many types of wines, from dry wines to sweet dessert wine called “aszú”, the more valuable the higher is its “number of hod. This wine region has been completely renovated, large investments were made after the 1990s, especially the French companies.
Unicum – Loving more than 200 years are traditionally marketed in a spherical bottle – cold drink. It is sold in all sizes.
Pimientra red cloth sacks – Although it is of American origin, ground pepper is a Hungarian tradition and it is imperative to prepare the real Hungarian dishes.
Modern printing a photo of the 30s. Many great minds in the history of photography emigrated from Hungary. His contemporaries were left in Hungary. Their negatives can buy cheap printed incredible beauty in the library Manó Mai House .
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