Petőfi Bridge

Another beautiful bridge

There are several bridges over the River Danube in Budapest, an often overlooked bridge is Petofi Bridge. A nice span ,its a crossing popular with pedestrians and cyclists and motorists, it connects ...

fast bridge

walked over this bridge on our first night in budapest. traffic goes pretty fast on it and you have to walk single file as the cyclists go pretty fast too. took a few nice pics and walked to ...

Functional

Built between the wars this bridge serves its purpose well transporting people to the ‘other’ side. Not surprisingly it was blown up by the retreating German army a testimony to its functionality and ...

Functional rather than Aesthetic

The Petofi Bridge is a fair distance from our Hotel and not a venue I would go out of my way to visit. The bridge was built before World War 2 and does not have the aesthetic look to it compared to th...

When you take the Hydro ferry from Vienna to Budapest its the first city bridge youe pass under

Bridge Petofi over the river Danube was built between 1933-37 and was originally called the Horthy Miklós Bridge, until it was blown up by the retreating German army in 1945. In 1952 it was rebuilt a...