What to see in Aquincum?

Óbuda & Aquincum Óbuda - Old Buda - is most easily reached by taking the HÉV suburban railway from Batthyány tér to the stop at Árpád Bridge. The Vasarely Museum, with its Op Art collection at III Szentlélek tér 6, greets you right outside the station.

  

Walk through Szentlélek tér to Fő tér, the beautifully restored heart of Óbuda. The Town Hall is at III Fő tér 3, but the most interesting building is the baroque Zichy Mansion (1752) at Fő tér I. At the back of the courtyard is an art gallery and upstairs the unique Kassák Museum, a three-room exhibition with some gems of early 20th-century avant-garde art.

Return to the HÉV and take a train three stops further north to Aquincum. Aquincum was the key military garrison of the Roman province of Pannonia. A Roman aqueduct used to pass this way from a spring in the nearby park and remains have been preserved in the median strip of the highway alongside the HÉV railway line. The 2nd-century civilian amphitheatre is right beside the station. A few hundred metres away is a large excavated area and the outdoor Aquincum Museum (open from May to October only). From Aquincum you have a choice of returning to Budapest or taking the HÉV on to Szentendre (see the Danube Bend section).