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M3 · 2 · 4 · 6 · 14
4.2 / km²
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Staying in Angyalföld
District XIII has two halves and one name. Újlipótváros, the southern end just over Szent István körút from the Parliament, was built in the 1920s and 1930s and Wikivoyage calls it one of the finest residential areas in Budapest. It is small shops, cafés, the Comedy Theatre and Margaret Island at the end of the street, at prices well under District V, with the Parliament a fifteen-minute walk away.
North of Váci út the district turns into Angyalföld proper: socialist-era housing blocks, the Duna Plaza shopping centre and office parks around Dózsa György út. Nothing is wrong with it and nothing there is for a visitor either - it is where the cheap District XIII rooms are.
The practical test is the metro. Lehel tér and Dózsa György út on the M3, plus trams 4 and 6 at Jászai Mari tér, cover the good half; if your address is closer to Gyöngyösi utca, you are in the other one. Margaret Island - a car-free park with a running track, the open-air baths and the musical fountain - is the district's real amenity and the reason people come back.
What works
- Újlipótváros is 15 minutes on foot from the Parliament at half the price
- Restaurants and bakeries that serve residents rather than visitors
- Margaret Island is at the end of the district, car-free and open all night
- M3 at Lehel tér and trams 4 and 6 at Jászai Mari tér
- Quiet enough to sleep with a window open, which the centre is not
What does not
- North of Váci út it is housing estates and office parks with nothing to walk to
- The cheapest District XIII rooms are in exactly that half
- No sights of its own beyond Margaret Island
- 25 minutes on foot to Deák Ferenc tér, or a change of transport
- Dozens of near-identical new-build apartment blocks along the river make addresses hard to judge from photos
It is considered as one of the finest residential areas in Budapest with a relaxed, inviting atmosphere and a number of restaurants, cafés and small shops.