Vác, Hungary: The Mummies, the Cathedral Tower and a Baroque Square, 24 Minutes From Budapest

Painted Coffins Under a Baroque Square

In 1994 builders restoring a church on the main square of Vác opened a sealed doorway and found a crypt nobody had entered for more than 150 years. Inside were 262 wooden coffins, many painted with images of Christ and symbols of death, and in them the people of 18th-century Vác: craftsmen, army officers, friars, women and children. Many of the bodies had mummified naturally.

That crypt is why most foreign visitors come, and it is reason enough. But Vác has more than one surprise. Above the cellars sits a long baroque square, there is a triumphal arch built for Maria Theresa in five months, and the vast cathedral has a tower you can now climb for the view over the town and the river. The train from Nyugati takes 24 minutes. This guide covers each sight, which day to go (it matters here), where to eat, the trains and the ferry, and a plan for the day. For how Vác compares with Szentendre, Visegrád and Esztergom, see our Danube Bend day trip guide.

Photo: Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. The main square of Vác, Március 15. tér, in January 2025.

📋 At a Glance

📍 Where	Vác, on the east bank of the Danube Bend, north of Budapest (Google Maps)
🚆 Getting there	Z70 fast train from Nyugati hourly at :08, 24 minutes, 650 Ft; last fast train back 22:02 (details)
⚰️ Don't miss	Memento Mori, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, 1,800 Ft, tickets also online
⛪ Cathedral tower	210 steps, every day 9:00 to 18:30, 1,700 Ft
📅 Best day	Saturday: the whole cathedral is free and open, plus the Bishop's Palace tour and the Diocesan Art Collection
⛴️ Ferry	Vác to Tahitótfalu hourly on the hour, 1,000 Ft per person; no MAHART boats call this season
🚫 Skip if	It is Monday and you came for the mummies: the museums are closed

Which Day to Go

In most towns the day of the week barely matters. In Vác it decides what you see. The town museum (the Memento Mori and its sister sites) closes on Mondays, and the cathedral and the bishop’s collections, run by the diocese, open their best parts on set days only.

Saturday is the best day, especially in winter. From 1 November to 30 April the whole cathedral is open and free only on Saturdays, 9:00 to 18:30. On other days you can step into the vestibule and look down the nave through the inner grille, no further. Saturday is also the only day individual visitors can tour the Bishop’s Palace (11:00), and one of the two days the Diocesan Art Collection opens for free. The Memento Mori is open too, so everything is on.

Wednesday is second best: all the museum sites and the Diocesan Art Collection are open, but the cathedral is vestibule only.

On a Monday the museum sites are closed. You can still climb the cathedral tower (open every day), look into the cathedral from the vestibule, and walk the main square, the triumphal arch and the Danube promenade, with a pâtisserie stop. It makes a pleasant few hours, but without the mummies.

What	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday to Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Memento Mori	Closed	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00
Kék Ház	Closed	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00
Pannónia Ház (Sajdik)	Closed	Closed	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00	10:00 to 18:00
Cathedral, 1 Nov to 30 Apr	Vestibule only	Vestibule only	Vestibule only	Whole church, free	Vestibule only, outside Masses
Cathedral tower	9:00 to 18:30	9:00 to 18:30	9:00 to 18:30	9:00 to 18:30	9:00 to 18:30
Diocesan Art Collection	Closed	Closed	Wednesday only, free	Free, 10:00 to 18:00	Closed
Bishop’s Palace	No tour	No tour	No tour	Tour at 11:00	No tour
Szent Mihály crypt	Closed November to March, except by arrangement
Square, arch, promenade	Free, always open

Dates to know. There are no Bishop’s Palace tours from 21 December 2026 to 1 January 2027, and the cathedral closes to visits at Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost and Christmas. Its hours can also change for services and weddings. From 1 May to 31 October, Sunday afternoons (12:30 to 18:00) are added for full access to the cathedral.

Hours from muzeumvac.hu (opening hours and tickets, site pages) and puspokvac.hu (opening hours), checked on 28 October 2026.

Memento Mori: the Painted Coffins of Vác

The Dominican church at the south end of the main square is known locally as the Fehérek temploma, the church of the White Friars, after the white habits of its friars. During its restoration in 1994, workers found the walled-up entrance to its crypt. It had been closed for more than a century and a half. Behind it lay 262 coffins, most of them in good condition and many painted and decorated, holding townspeople who died from the middle of the 18th century to the early 19th: craftsmen and clerks, army officers, priests and friars, women and children. Many of the bodies had mummified naturally, without any embalming.

What you see. The exhibition is in a medieval cellar beneath the house at Március 15. tér 19, down a steep flight of stairs, and it is cool down there even in summer. At the bottom you see how the crypt looked when it was opened, and a list of the townspeople identified from the inscriptions on their coffins. A small room on the left holds the crucifixes, rosaries and devotional medals buried with them. The main hall is lined with painted coffins of adults and children, decorated with images of Christ and symbols of death. At the far end, three people lie in glass coffins, dressed in clothing reconstructed from what they were buried in: the tailor György Stefanovics, a middle-aged woman of the town whose name is not known, and a nine-year-old girl, Magdolna Salamon. Most of the remains are not in Vác at all: they are kept by the anthropology department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum.

These are the remains of people who lived in this town, so go quietly and look with respect.

Photo: Globetrotter19, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. The house at Március 15. tér 19, entrance to the Memento Mori, April 2025.

Memento Mori	2026
Address	Vác, Március 15. tér 19
Opening hours	Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, closed Monday
Last tickets	30 minutes before closing
Time needed	About 40 minutes
Adult ticket	1,800 Ft (about $5.60)
Reduced (under 26, pensioners)	900 Ft
Family (2 adults + 2 children)	3,600 Ft
Memento Mori + Pannónia Ház	3,200 Ft; family 4,800 Ft
All four museum sites	4,600 Ft; family 6,900 Ft
Payment	Cash in forint; SZÉP cards not accepted; tickets also sold online on Cooltix
Info line	+36 30 555 7620, daily

Good to know. If you pay cash, bring forint, as the desk takes no other currency, and SZÉP cards are not accepted. You can also buy tickets online on Cooltix before you go. The stairs down are steep, so it is not a visit for anyone who struggles with steps. The desk also sells tickets for the Kék Ház and the Szent Mihály crypt.

Hours and prices from muzeumvac.hu (opening hours and tickets, Memento Mori page) and the museum’s Cooltix ticket page, checked on 28 October 2026.

The Cathedral and the Tower Lookout

The Cathedral of the Assumption (Nagyboldogasszony-székesegyház) is out of all proportion to the town around it. Bishop Kristóf Migazzi had it built to designs by Isidore Canevale, and it was consecrated on 15 August 1772: the first cathedral in Hungary in the French classicist style, and the fourth-largest church in the country. The town’s tourism office gives it 72 m in length and 55 m in height. Six statues of apostles and saints stand above the portico. Inside, the altarpiece and the fresco of the dome are by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, and a full restoration of the interior from 2021 to 2024 brought back its 18th-century painted architectural decoration.

The tower lookout. On 19 June 2025 the diocese opened the north tower to visitors. You climb 210 steps, with a stop on a terrace behind the statues of the facade (there is a photo point), and pass the diocese’s largest bell, which the tourism office calls Hungary’s sixth largest. The towers are 38 m high, and from the top you look out over the rooftops of the town and along the Danube. There is also a short film on the restoration; the tourism office says it has a 12-minute version with English subtitles.

Photo: Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. Vác Cathedral on Konstantin tér, January 2025.

Cathedral and tower	2026
Address	Vác, Schuszter Konstantin tér 11
Cathedral, 1 Nov to 30 Apr	Vestibule only, every day 9:00 to 18:30 (Sunday outside Masses); whole church free on Saturdays 9:00 to 18:30
Cathedral, 1 May to 31 Oct	As above, plus full access on Sundays 12:30 to 18:00
Masses	Monday to Thursday 18:00 (canons’ chapel), Friday 18:00, Sunday 10:00, 11:30 and 18:00
Tower lookout	Every day 9:00 to 18:30, up to 25 people at a time
Tower ticket	1,700 Ft (about $5.20), valid for 48 hours
Where to buy	Online at jegy.puspokvac.hu; at the PüspökVác visitor center, Galamb utca 1, Monday to Saturday 9:00 to 16:30; or every day 9:00 to 18:30 from the QR code at the tower entrance

Good to know. Visits to the tower pause for a short while when the bells ring at noon, and the top platform can close in bad weather. The visitor center is inside the PüspökVác café (enter on the right). The desk takes cash and bank cards, plus SZÉP cards issued by OTP, K&H and MBH.

The Bishop’s Palace and the Diocesan Art Collection

The Bishop’s Palace (Püspöki Palota, Migazzi Kristóf tér 1) can be seen by individual visitors only on the guided tour on Saturdays at 11:00, which is in Hungarian. Groups of ten or more can book Tuesday to Sunday, 48 hours ahead (latogatas@vaciegyhazmegye.hu, +36 30 716 5722). There are no tours on 1 and 2 November 2026 or from 21 December 2026 to 1 January 2027.

The Diocesan Art Collection (Váci Egyházművészeti Gyűjtemény) is in the former Provost’s Palace on the main square, at Március 15. tér 4. Its permanent show, Örökség (Heritage), brings together goldsmiths’ work, liturgical objects, paintings, sculpture and a rich collection of vestments, in baroque and rococo rooms upstairs. Individual visitors get in free on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10:00 to 18:00. A guided visit runs on Saturdays at 14:00 for 1,700 Ft, and the fee includes an espresso or a mineral water at the PüspökVác café.

Cathedral, tower, palace and collection details from puspokvac.hu (opening hours, ticket purchase, cathedral, palace and visitor center pages), jegy.puspokvac.hu and the diocese of Vác, checked on 28 October 2026; cathedral size, bell and film from visitvac.hu, read 28 October 2026.

The Main Square, the Dominican Church and the Crypt

Március 15. tér is the heart of Vác: a long, triangular square that keeps its medieval outline but was rebuilt in baroque style for Maria Theresa’s visit in 1764. Walk it from end to end and you pass most of the town’s story.

• The Fehérek temploma (Dominican church) closes the south end. The coffins of the Memento Mori came from its crypt.
• The Szent Mihály crypt (Szent Mihály Altemplom). In the middle of the square, the foundations of the vanished medieval St Michael’s church are marked out in the paving. Below them, the old crypt holds a small archaeology display of foundations, carved gravestones and finds from the dig before the square was renovated. It takes about 10 minutes and costs 600 Ft (reduced 300 Ft), but it opens from April to the end of October only. From November to March you can see it only by prior arrangement with the museum (info@muzeumvac.hu, +36 30 555 7620).
• The Town Hall (Városháza) is baroque, and works from the International Mobile MADI Museum hang in its corridors, according to the tourism office.
• The Diocesan Art Collection fills the former Provost’s Palace (see above).
• The big pink building is now the Cházár András institute for the deaf. It was the bishop’s palace where Maria Theresa stayed.
• The Kék Ház, the Blue House, at No. 23, is an 18th-century house with an elephant on its shop sign, left from a colonial-goods grocer (locals called it the buffalo shop). It holds the museum’s temporary exhibitions; allow about 25 minutes.
• The music pavilion in front of the Curia plays a tune on the hour.
• The Pannónia Ház at the north end, where the poet Sándor Petőfi once stayed, holds the Sajdik cartoon collection (see Vác With Kids).

Keep an eye out: the sculptor Mihály Kolodko’s tiny bronze statues are dotted around town.

Kék Ház	2026
Address	Március 15. tér 23
Opening hours	Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, closed Monday
Tickets	1,000 Ft; reduced 500 Ft; family 1,500 Ft

Square details from visitvac.hu (baroque main square and top 10 pages), read 28 October 2026; Szent Mihály crypt and Kék Ház hours and prices from muzeumvac.hu, checked on 28 October 2026.

The Triumphal Arch

Vác has the only triumphal arch in Hungary. Bishop Migazzi had it built in just five months for Maria Theresa, who arrived by boat in 1764, and it stood at what was then the edge of town, near the landing. Locals call it the Kőkapu, the Stone Gate. It is about 20 m high, 12 m wide and 4 m deep, with eagles holding garlands and medallion portraits of the ruling family: Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I on the side facing Kisvác, and Ferdinand, Maximilian, Joseph II and Leopold II on the side facing the town. A legend says the queen feared that an arch built so fast would fall down on her.

Look down as well as up. Since 2021 a tiny Kolodko statue of Maria Theresa has sat in the arch’s shadow, as if she still does not dare to pass under it. The arch is free and always open, and you can walk, cycle or drive through it.

Photo: Random photos 1989, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized. The triumphal arch, the Kőkapu, on the last day of 2020.

Arch details from visitvac.hu (triumphal arch page), read 28 October 2026.

The Danube Promenade and the Ferry

Vác’s riverfront is about 3 km of walks, and the EuroVelo 6 cycle route runs along all of it. From the boat landing, Liszt Ferenc sétány runs past villas and kayak and dragon-boat clubs to the ferry landing, where a statue of St John of Nepomuk watches over the river. Ady Endre sétány has cafés and cast-iron railings designed by Frigyes Feszl that once stood in front of the old Hungarian Parliament, and a cast-iron music pavilion that first stood in the bishop’s garden. József Attila sétány is an avenue of horse chestnuts, about forty varieties, according to the tourism office. Along the way there are playgrounds, picnic lawns and a pump track behind the boathouse. Dogs are welcome on a lead.

At the south end a stretch of the medieval town wall survives, with a statue of King Géza I. Above it is the hill where Vác castle and the first cathedral stood. The Franciscan church stands there now, and the old friary is a Piarist center.

The Ferry to Szentendre Island

A car and passenger ferry crosses from Vác to Tahitótfalu on Szentendre Island all year. It leaves Vác every hour on the hour from 6:00 to 20:00 and Tahitótfalu at a quarter past (first at 5:40, last at 20:15). An extended weekend timetable runs only from 1 May to 30 September. The town posts notices of stoppages on vac.hu.

Vác to Tahitótfalu ferry	Fare since 1 March 2026
Person	1,000 Ft (about $3.10)
Student or pensioner	800 Ft
Bike, rider not included	1,000 Ft; with the rider’s ticket 2,000 Ft (about $6.20)
Car, driver not included	2,200 Ft; with the driver’s ticket 3,200 Ft (about $9.90)

Vehicle fares cover the vehicle only, so the driver or rider pays the 1,000 Ft person fare on top. The operator is Bodor és Fiai 2003 Kft. (+36 26 331 478). From Tahitótfalu, Volánbusz buses run on toward Szentendre; check the MÁV app for times.

No boats from Budapest this season. MAHART’s notice says the Vác pier is under restoration and its ships, the hydrofoil included, do not call. The Danube Bend sailings were also cut for low water until 31 October 2026, and there are no winter sailings to Vác. The tourism office says the hydrofoil normally runs from May to October.

Going On From Vác

• Szentendre is a ferry and bus ride away via Tahitótfalu, or go back to Budapest and out on the HÉV.
• Nagymaros is further north on the same railway line, at Nagymaros-Visegrád station, and a small ferry crosses from there to Visegrád; the operator’s timetable is at atlantisclubkft.hu. See our Visegrád day trip guide for the castle.
• Castle hikes. Drégely in the Börzsöny and Csővár in the Cserhát are both reached by changing at Vác; the castle ruin hikes guide has the trains and trails.
• Hétkápolna is a small pilgrimage church begun in 1711 in the Liget woodland park on the edge of town (Derecske dűlő 2), with two springs behind it, the Mária and Szem springs, once believed to heal, and a fishing pond. Pilgrims have come since 1815, and the big feast is on the Sunday after 12 September. It is a quiet, free walk for an autumn or winter afternoon.
• The Naszály rises above the town for a real hike, not a stroll.

Ferry times and fares from the Magyar Révhajósok Egyesülete (Hungarian ferry operators’ association) page for the Tahitótfalu to Vác crossing, checked on 28 October 2026; ferry notices from vac.hu; boat notice from mahartpassnave.hu, checked on 28 October 2026; promenade and Hétkápolna details from visitvac.hu, read 28 October 2026.

Where to Eat

Cake is part of any day in Vác, and the town has old pâtisseries as well as cafés. These places publish their own hours, except where noted.

Place	Where	Hours	Good to know
Lujza & Koriander	Ady Endre sétány 5, on the promenade	Tue to Thu 8:00 to 16:30; Fri to Sun 8:00 to 18:00; closed Monday	Café and bakery for breakfast, lunch and cakes, on the riverside
PüspökVác Kávézó	Galamb utca 1, by the cathedral	Mon to Sat 9:00 to 16:30; closed Sunday	The diocese’s café, with a poppy-seed coffee as its house specialty; the tower ticket desk is inside
Adullám Kávézó	Március 15. tér 8 (Kalmárok udvara), on the main square	Mon to Sat 9:00 to 20:00; closed Sunday	Coffee on the square
Édes Vonal	Széchenyi utca 34, on the way from the station	Mon to Fri 9:00 to 19:00; Sat 9:00 to 18:00; Sun open until 18:00	Pâtisserie
Pingvin Cukrászda	Naszály út 2	Winter: daily 9:00 to 18:00	One of the oldest pâtisseries in Vác
Ittali Pizza	Széchenyi utca 18	Daily 11:00 to 21:00	Neapolitan pizza, open on Mondays
Mihályi Patisserie	Köztársaság út 21	Not published	A well-known pâtisserie, on the same street as the Pannónia Ház

Hours from each place’s own website (lujzaeskoriander.hu, puspokvac.hu, adullam.hu, edesvonal.hu, pingvincukraszda.hu and ittali.hu), checked on 28 October 2026; Mihályi’s address from its own website, mihalyipatisserie.com, which lists no hours, checked on 28 October 2026.

Vác at Advent

Every Advent the town runs a Christmas market with a stage on Március 15. tér, with weekend stage programs, a visit from Mikulás (Hungary’s St Nicholas) and craft workshops. The 2026 dates and program are not out yet; visitvac.hu posts them. For the wider picture, see Christmas in Hungary.

Market format from vac.hu reports on the 2025 to 2026 season; visitvac.hu events listing checked on 28 October 2026.

Getting There

From Budapest by train. All trains to Vác leave from Budapest-Nyugati, and in the planner every option on the Vác line cost 650 Ft (about $2) one way.

• Z70 fast train: every hour at :08, 24 minutes (06:08, 07:08, 08:08 and so on, arriving at :32).
• S70 stopping train: every 30 minutes at :15 and :45, 40 minutes.
• EuroCity and InterCity trains stop at Vác about every two hours, for example at 05:30, 07:30, 08:12, 09:30 and 11:30, taking about 26 minutes.
• Avoid the S71, which leaves at :00 and goes the long way round via Veresegyház: 84 minutes for 930 Ft.

From about 7:00 that makes three or four trains an hour, with a 24 to 26-minute one at least once an hour.

Coming back. The Z70 leaves Vác at :28 (17:28, 18:28, 19:28), and the last Z70 is the 20:28, arriving at Nyugati at 20:54. Long-distance trains leave at 18:02, 19:23, 20:02 and 22:02, the last fast train, arriving at 22:28. The S70 leaves at :04 and :34, and the last train of the night is the 23:34, arriving at 0:14.

From northern Pest, use Rákospalota-Újpest station, not Újpest: the S70 runs from there direct to Vác in 28 minutes for 600 Ft (for example at 9:27, 9:57 and 10:27). From Újpest station the planner sends you back into Nyugati first.

Train times and fares from the MÁV journey planner for 4 and 7 November 2026, which gave the same times on both days. The MÁV app shows the times for your day.

The station. Vác station is at Széchenyi utca 42, and the main square is about 10 minutes’ easy walk straight down Széchenyi utca. For more on tickets and the network, see our guide to traveling Hungary by train.

By bus. Volánbusz route 300 runs from Újpest-Városkapu in about an hour to Vác bus station (Szent István tér 4), 5 minutes from the main square. The train is quicker.

By car. Take the M2 toward Hont, about 25 minutes from Budapest according to the tourism office, and park at Géza király tér or along the river.

Tourinform Vác is on the main square at Március 15. tér 17, open Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00. Outside June to August it is closed at weekends. It has lockable luggage lockers, free wifi and phone charging.

Station, bus, car and Tourinform details from visitvac.hu (transport and Tourinform pages), read 28 October 2026.

A Day in Vác, Hour by Hour

This plan is for a Saturday, when everything is open. On another Tuesday to Sunday, skip the palace and the art collection (except on Wednesday) and see the cathedral from the vestibule.

• 9:08 Z70 from Nyugati, arriving in Vác at 9:32. Walk down Széchenyi utca to the main square, about 10 minutes.
• 10:00 Memento Mori when it opens, about 40 minutes. Buy the ticket online or bring forint for the desk.
• 11:00 The Bishop’s Palace tour if you are happy with a Hungarian-language guide. Otherwise, the Diocesan Art Collection on the square (free) and the Kék Ház.
• 12:30 Lunch: Lujza & Koriander on the promenade, or pizza at Ittali on Széchenyi utca.
• 14:00 The cathedral, which you can walk through on Saturdays, then the 210 steps of the tower. Poppy-seed coffee at the PüspökVác café before it closes at 16:30.
• 15:30 Along Köztársaság út: the Sajdik cartoon collection at the Pannónia Ház, cake at Mihályi on the same street, and on to the triumphal arch.
• Late afternoon Back along the Danube promenade as the light goes.
• Evening Z70 at 17:28 or 18:28, or stay for dinner and take the 22:02 back.

On a Monday, start with the tower and the cathedral vestibule, walk the square and the arch, have cake at Pingvin or Édes Vonal and lunch at Ittali, and finish on the promenade, or take the ferry over to Tahitótfalu and back.

Vác With Kids

• The Sajdik collection at the Pannónia Ház is the kids’ pick. Ferenc Sajdik drew the characters of some of Hungary’s best-loved children’s cartoons, among them Pom Pom and Gombóc Artúr. There are about 140 of his works in four rooms, Vác pictures of Maria Theresa’s visit and the first train arriving, and a children’s room with beanbags where you can watch episodes. Allow about an hour. Dogs are welcome too.
• The statue hunt. Mihály Kolodko’s tiny bronzes are scattered around town; the little Maria Theresa by the triumphal arch is the easy one to start with.
• The tower climb. 210 steps and a giant bell on the way up.
• The ferry. An hourly crossing to Szentendre Island and back makes a short boat ride.
• The promenade has playgrounds, lawns and a pump track behind the boathouse.
• The Memento Mori shows real human remains, including children, so judge for yourself whether your children are ready for it.

Pannónia Ház, Sajdik Collection	2026
Address	Köztársaság út 19
Opening hours	Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, closed Monday and Tuesday
Tickets	1,800 Ft; reduced 900 Ft; family 3,600 Ft

Pannónia Ház details from muzeumvac.hu (opening hours and site page), checked on 28 October 2026.

The Verdict

Vác is the Danube Bend town with a story nobody else has, and it is the quickest of them to reach. Take the 24-minute train from Nyugati, spend forty quiet minutes with the painted coffins and the people of 18th-century Vác, climb the cathedral tower, and walk the square to the triumphal arch with a stop for cake. Half a day is enough, a full day is easy, and the train back is never far away. Go on a Saturday if you can, when the whole cathedral and the bishop’s treasures are open, and avoid Mondays if the mummies are the reason you came.

Sources: MÁV journey planner, checked on 28 October 2026 for 4 and 7 November 2026; Tragor Ignác Múzeum: opening hours and tickets (English), Memento Mori, Szent Mihály crypt, Kék Ház and Pannónia Ház, plus online tickets on Cooltix; PüspökVác: opening hours, cathedral, Bishop’s Palace, visitor center, café, ticket purchase and ticket shop; Diocese of Vác: tower lookout opening; Visit Vác (Tourinform): cathedral, main square, top 10, triumphal arch, Danube promenade, Vác castle, Hétkápolna, transport and Tourinform office; Magyar Révhajósok Egyesülete: Tahitótfalu to Vác ferry; vac.hu: ferry stop notice, Advent reports (first candle, second weekend, last weekend, stalls removed); MAHART PassNave; Lujza & Koriander, Édes Vonal, Pingvin Cukrászda, Adullám Kávézó, Ittali and Mihályi Patisserie; all read or checked on 28 October 2026.

Prices are in HUF, which is what you pay at the counter. Converted at 1 USD = 324 HUF, the ECB rate on 15 October 2026. Rates move, so treat the converted figures as indicative.

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