Bartók Béla út: South Buda's art street
Galleries and design shops down one boulevard, the Gellért baths at the top, a lake at the bottom. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Gellért Hotel and Baths
Start at the foot of Gellért Hill at the Art Nouveau bathhouse of 1918, all majolica and stained glass. You don't have to bathe — but stand in the entrance hall and read the tilework before you walk on.

2. Bartók Béla út — the gallery stretch
The boulevard's run of small galleries and design shops between Gárdonyi tér and Móricz. Duck into whichever doors are open; this is South Buda's quiet answer to a gallery district, and a Sunday afternoon is the time to graze it.

3. Gárdonyi tér and the mosaic Madonna
A small triangular square with a statue of the writer Géza Gárdonyi and, on the corner building, a gilded mosaic Madonna easy to miss. Look up. The trams rattle through; the square holds its calm anyway.

4. Hadik and Szatyor
Two old café rooms facing each other across the boulevard — once the haunt of the writer Frigyes Karinthy, now back in business. Take a coffee in whichever has a free window table; the literary ghosts come included.

5. Feneketlen-tó
The *tó* (lake) in its little park, with the twin towers of the Cistercian Szent Imre church behind it. A full loop of the water takes ten minutes; do it slowly, and watch for the fountain jet in the middle.

6. Móricz Zsigmond körtér
The busy round *körtér* (circus) where the walk ends and every tram in South Buda seems to meet. Grab a *lángos* from the stand if it's there, then catch the 19, 47 or 49 along the river.

Bartók Béla út: South Buda's art street