Belvaros neighborhood

Veres Palne Utca

Our Budapest street is named after the founder of the first high school for girls in Budapest in 1867.  The neighborhood is quite lovely, with five and six story apartment blocks with inner courtyards.  Our apartment building until fairly recently had little stores in the courtyard where one could buy basics.  Now the space is used for parking bicycles.

A late evening walk after a snow storm that left the streets wet revealed some interesting buildings, a church encircled by a high wall and gates -- the Serb Church -- several bars, a youth hostel and what is apparently one of the few vegetarian restaurants in Budapest.  There are also many historical markers, primarily noting the literary and political figures who lived in the buildings in the 19th century.

The street is mostly cobblestone and barely wide enough for one car.  Parking is allowed, and I suspect the search for spaces occupies a significant amount of time -- kind of like New York.

But I don't need to worry about that -- it's only a five minute walk to the veggie restaurant, which I suspect we will visit often.

The district is called Belvaros, which means "beautiful city." They got that right.