{"id":10373,"date":"2019-01-24T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/2019\/01\/24\/budapest\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:04:08","slug":"budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/journal\/budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest, Hungary: Bridges, Baths &amp; Ruin Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budapest is the capital of Hungary and has around 1.7 million inhabitants. Budapest became a single city spanning both banks of the Danube on 17 November 1873, with the merger of Buda and Pest.<\/p>\n<p>A charming city and a beloved tourist destination, Budapest wins you over from the very first moment you walk it. Eight imposing bridges linking Buda with Pest, old and new thermal baths, a huge covered market with something for every budget, and historic sights \u2014 Budapest is the city that weds the old with the new, naturally and effortlessly. And without a second thought, a night out at a Ruin Pub (pubs housed in abandoned buildings) is a must: thanks to the aesthetic of the space, they are an experience in their own right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2533\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2533\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Szimpla-Kert-ruin-bar.webp\" alt=\"Ruin Bar - \u0392\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u03c0\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Szimpla-Kert-ruin-bar.webp 800w, https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Szimpla-Kert-ruin-bar-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Szimpla-Kert-ruin-bar-768x510.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruin Bar &#8211; Budapest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary&#8217;s capital on the Danube \u2014 thermal baths, grand bridges and Budapest&#8217;s legendary ruin bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destination-guides"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.altervan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}