We have seen the building up close and from afar, during the day and in the evening. It stands magnificently on the Pest side of the city and the view from the Buda side is very grand. It is supposed to be one of the must-visits in Budapest and visit we did but we weren’t prepared well enough and we ended up not seeing the inside… 😦
Where we lined up to get tix for the guided tour.
Inside this door X tix for guided tours are sold...
What we didn’t know until we got there in time for the scheduled English guided tour one day was that even if you lined up at that time, you couldn’t get in immediately. In fact we were told to come back the next morning and line up again to purchase tickets for an English guided tour for later that day.
Apparently they only allow a small number of people in at a time at this working parliament and the English tours sell out very fast (tours are available in different languages at different hours) and since tickets are only good on the day of purchase, you would have to line up early in the morning for the day’s allowance of tickets on any given day. We didn’t have enough time for that unfortunately.
Anyway…
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