Nagykörút , also Grand Boulevard or Great Boulevard (also called "Big Ring Road ", "Grand Ring Road", "Great Ring Road"), is one of the most central and busiest parts of Budapest , a major thoroughfare built by 1896, Hungary 's Millennium . It forms a semicircle connecting two bridges of the Danube , Margaret Bridge on the north and Petőfi Bridge on the south. Usually the part inside and around this semicircle is counted as the city centre of Budapest (see Belváros ).
15-426: Grand Boulevard may refer to: Grand Boulevard (Budapest) , Hungary Grand Boulevard, Joondalup , Australia Grand Boulevard (Montreal) , Canada United States [ edit ] Grand Boulevard (Corona) , California, a circular street that encircles downtown Corona Grand Boulevard, Chicago , Illinois, a neighborhood Grand Boulevard (Detroit) , Michigan,
30-425: A boulevard that encircles central Detroit Grand Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri) Grand Boulevard, Long Beach, New York Grand Boulevard (St. Louis) , Missouri Grand Boulevard (Oklahoma City) , Oklahoma Southern Parkway (Louisville, Kentucky) , formerly called Grand Boulevard See also [ edit ] Grand Avenue (disambiguation) Grand Street (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
45-508: A transport hub with several bus routes, tram routes 4 and 6, and a station on M3 of the Budapest Metro . Since 2007 Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) has operated regular services between the terminal and Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Terminal 1, although Terminal 1 has been closed since 2012 and all departures and arrivals have been consolidated in Terminal 2A and 2B, which
60-562: Is 4 kilometers away. Beside the terminal and partially above its open area there is the WestEnd City Center shopping mall . Inside the station is a McDonald's restaurant which has been described as the "most elegant" McDonald's in the world. The music video for Gwen Stefani's 2008 single Early Winter was partly shot at Nyugati. Starting in May 2016 the key scenes of the movie Terminal were shot over 27 nights. Certain parts of
75-425: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grand Boulevard (Budapest) Nagykörút is actually a colloquial name of its five parts which connect to each other: (from north to south) Szent István körút, Teréz körút, Erzsébet körút, József körút and Ferenc körút ; these are the names the traveller will find on the map and the buildings. They are named after
90-563: Is one of the three main railway terminals in Budapest , Hungary. The station is on the Pest side of Budapest, accessible by the 4 and 6 tramline and the M3 metro line. The station is a stub-end terminal, with the tracks exiting to the northeast. There are nine platforms serving seventeen tracks. There is a metro station beneath the railway station; buses and trams are accessed at street level. The station
105-665: The New York Café, today Boscolo Budapest Hotel (1894), and the Art Nouveau palace of the Museum of Applied Arts (1896). Among the modern landmarks are the Skála Metró shopping centre (1984) and the WestEnd City Center , a shopping mall (1999). Beside them, there are many small and bigger shops, stores on its either side, and mostly turn-of-the-century residential buildings above them. The four metro lines have five stations on Nagykörút, at
120-832: The Buda side) with a tram line in the middle. It crosses a few major squares such as Nyugati tér , Oktogon and Blaha Lujza tér , basic points of reference for the locals. The four major roads which cross it are Váci út (north), Andrássy Avenue (northeast; part of the World Heritage ), Rákóczi út (east) and Üllői út (southeast). On the Nagykörút one can find (from north to south) the Comedy Theatre ( Vígszínház , 1896), Western Railway Station ( Nyugati pályaudvar , 1877, built by Gustave Eiffel 's team), Radisson Blu Béke Hotel (1913), Corinthia Hotel Budapest (former Grand Hotel Royal, 1896),
135-505: The busiest tram line of Europe, carrying 200,000 travellers a day. (The routes of tram lines 4 and 6 differ only in their last two stops in the south. ) Its trams (no. 4 and 6), a unique type in Budapest, have been replaced by low-floor Siemens Combino Supra vehicles, the longest in Europe (54 m), after July 1, 2006. Tram stations were elevated and in places widened and modernized, ramps added,
150-449: The district got back its original name after World War II, but not the boulevard. Nagykörút is usually meant to include its Pest part (i.e., the east side of the Danube), but it might be applied to its extension on the Buda side as well (in this latter sense, Margit körút will be its sixth part). It consists of a 35- to 40-metre-wide, about 4.5-kilometre-long road (not counting the bridge and
165-477: The districts of Budapest, which they pass through: VI. Terézváros, VII. Erzsébetváros, VIII. Józsefváros, IX. Ferencváros. The only exception is Szent István körút, which is the border of Lipótváros (northern half of District V.) and Újlipótváros (southern part of District XIII.). However, its original name was Lipót körút , but the district had been renamed to Szentistvánváros in 1937, also the boulevard became Szent István. Most of citizens did not support renaming, so
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#1732851707612180-605: The electric cables renovated and some rail sections replaced during the reconstruction, which cost altogether 3.4 billion forints . There are three further ring roads in Budapest: 47°29′59″N 19°04′10″E / 47.49972°N 19.06944°E / 47.49972; 19.06944 Western Railway Station (Budapest) Budapest Nyugati station ( Hungarian : Nyugati pályaudvar , pronounced [ˈɲuɡɒti ˈpaːjɒudvɒr] ; lit. ' western railway station ' ), generally referred to simply as Nyugati ,
195-548: The junctions of the above four roads: (from north to south) Nyugati pályaudvar ( M3 ), Oktogon ( M1 ), Blaha Lujza tér ( M2 ), Rákóczi tér ( M4 ) and Corvin-negyed (M3 again). A characteristic vehicle of the Grand Boulevard is the tram no. 4 and 6, reaching Buda both in north ( Széll Kálmán tér ) and south Újbuda-központ (line 4) and Móricz Zsigmond körtér (line 6). The line dates back to 1887 and it has since extended to 8.5 km in length and 21 stations to become
210-459: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grand Boulevard . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand_Boulevard&oldid=647415908 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
225-733: Was designed by Auguste de Serres and was built by the Eiffel Company . It was opened on 28 October 1877. It replaced another station, which was the terminus of Hungary's first railway line, the Pest – Vác line (constructed in 1846). This building was abolished in order to construct the Grand Boulevard . The station got its name from the adjacent Western Square ('Nyugati tér'), a major intersection where Teréz körút ( Theresia Boulevard ), Szent István körút ( Saint Stephen Boulevard ), Váci út ( Váci Avenue ), and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út ( Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue ) converge. The square also serves as
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