Hungarian State Opera House

One of the best opera houses in Europe, comparable only to the Paris and the Viennese opera had it's first performance in 1884. It is a fantastic neo-Renessaince building on Andrassy Avenue, one of the most beautiful streets in the city, with a metro station exit directly in front of it.

The interior is heavily decorated with real and fake marble, the bar has fantastic paintings on the ceiling and a cigar lounge, the main hall is decorated with 3 kilograms of gold leaf.

 Franz Josef II. had his very own lodge here and during his absence the Empress Sissy liked to visit the opera on her own, for this purpose there was a lodge built just for her.

 You can take a tour of the house for 2000 HFU for adults and 1000 HFU for students, but once you're here it is not a whole lot more expensive to see a performance as well.

This building was used for a number of film productions as a location including the film Evita with Madonna.