The Pest embankment: the Shoes and the river promenade
Sixty iron shoes on the waterline, the Parliament's facade, and the Corso to the Chain Bridge. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Kossuth Lajos tér
Start in the great square in front of Parliament. Walk around to the riverside flank before you go down to the water — the neo-Gothic facade is best read from here, head-on. The square itself is worth a slow circle.

2. Parliament riverfront
Drop to the embankment below the Parliament and look up. From the water the building is all spires and the central dome; from the square you miss half of it. Walk south along the tram line with the river on your right.

3. Shoes on the Danube
Sixty pairs of iron shoes set into the stone at the waterline, for the people shot here into the river in the winter of 1944-45. No plaque shouts; the shoes do the work. Stand a while. This is the heart of the walk.

4. Széchenyi István tér
The square at the Pest foot of the Chain Bridge, ringed by the Academy of Sciences and the Gresham Palace. Cross the tramlines carefully and look back north for the run of facade you've just walked past.

5. The Duna-korzó
The riverside promenade proper — the Corso — running south below the grand hotels. Buda's castle and the Fishermen's Bastion sit across the water the whole way. Walk it slowly; the view is the point and it's free.

6. Vörösmarty tér
Turn inland a block to the square that ends the M1, the little yellow underground line of 1896. The walk closes here with a coffee if you want one. The metro home is right under your feet.

The Pest embankment: the Shoes and the river promenade