Saturday night's weather forecast in Budapest calls for clouds, and the temperature will clock in at an expected late-December level of freezing, approximately, but that will matter very little to the ...

Visitors enjoy a thermal bath in the open air pool at the Szechenyi Thermal Bath in Budapest, Hungary on Jan. 16, 2026.

It was cold outside in Budapest on the day I visited Széchenyi Bath (or fürdő in Hungarian), a Neo-baroque-style bathhouse built in 1913. Snow flurries were intermittent and wondrous, the chill broken ...

Centuries ago, the towns of Buda and Pest, the leading cities of a mighty Hungarian kingdom, united to become Budapest. Today, Hungary’s vibrant capital maintains its stately ambience and offers ...

BUDAPEST -- After a week aboard the Viking Gullveig on the Danube and eating our way through German and Austrian Christmas markets, we had arrived in the Paris of the East: Budapest. Here, I broke off ...

Like most top-notch tourist draws in the world, before most travelers even arrive in Budapest, they'll typically have a slideshow of iconic images swirling in their mind. Paramount among the scenes of ...