Palace of Arts
At The Palace of Arts you can find several permanent residents under one roof: the Ludwig Museum, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus and
Music Library and the National Dance Theatre.
At the same time, the areas under the common roof, the theatre hall with a seating capacity of almost 500 in the eastern part, the modern National
Concert Hall with a seating capacity of more than 1,800 and other impressive multifunctional spaces are open to all participants of Hungarian cultural
and economic life. Besides international artists - in music, singing, dance or the fine arts, emerging talented young artists are welcomed in the
newly constructed spaces.
The imposing structure of the Palace of Arts covers a ground area of 10,000 square metres on the Pest side of Lágymányos Bridge, next to the
National
Theatre. The total floor space of the building is 70,000 square meters, meaning that if all the areas were occupied simultaneously, it would house
about 4,500 people - the population of a medium-sized village! Under the common roof, the impressive lobby is shared by three main units: the Ludwig
Museum, the National Concert Hall and the Festival Theatre with high-quality acoustics, as well as service areas to support these spaces and areas
offering facilities open all day: snack-bars, a restaurant, a café, an Internet café, breath-taking panorama terraces, gift- and bookshops.
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The House of Parliament
The Parliament building, which has become the symbol of the capital, was built between 1880 and 1902 to the designs of Imre Steindl. Today, the
government is housed in only a small portion of the building. The interior has been symmetrically arranged, because the Hungarian parliament was
originally composed of two houses: the rooms were built around the assembly halls of the Upper and Lower Houses - now the Congress Hall and the
Assembly Hall respectively - with the Delegation Hall in the centre. Some interesting ornaments of the lobbies are the painted pyroganite statues. The
frescoes, paintings and tapestries - The Works of Mihaly Munkácsi, Károly Lotz and Gyula Rudnay, among others - depict scenes from Hungarian history
and legends.
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