Film and TV locations in Hungary
97 places to shoot in Hungary: 23 theatres, arenas and venues, 10 industrial and derelict locations, 7 hotels and hotel interiors and 57 more. 22 have a photo and 24 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Hungary pays back
Hungary runs the Hungarian Film Incentive, worth 30% (up to 37.5% with foreign costs) as a cash rebate. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 12 companies we list in Hungary.
Regions
- Budapest 63
- Pest 5
- Debrecen, Hajdu-Bihar County 4
- Gyor-Moson-Sopron County 3
- Csongrad-Csanad 3
And single locations in 15 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Hungary 23
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 23 on their own page.
Budapest Music Center
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern concert hall and music institute in the Ferencvaros district of Budapest, with a flexible-configuration auditorium used for concerts and corporate or cultural events.
Flexible-configuration concert hall with technical and catering services
Fővárosi Nagycirkusz
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's permanent state circus building beside Városliget park and the zoo, a purpose-built circus hall used for shows and private bookings such as birthday events.
Hungarian National Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
The national repertory theatre of Hungary in a purpose-built 2002 building beside the Danube in southern Pest, home to its own drama company and visiting productions.
Kincsem Park
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's only horse racing track, an 86-hectare site in Budapest with grandstands, a panorama restaurant with VIP boxes and grounds used for galloping, trotting and greyhound racing.
Panorama restaurant with separated VIP boxes overlooking the track
MVM Dome
Theatre, arena & venue
A large modern indoor arena on Ulloi ut in Budapest's Nepliget district, built for concerts, sports events and expos with VIP hospitality areas and on-site parking.
Nagyerdei Stadion
Theatre, arena & venue
The football stadium of Debreceni VSC on the edge of the Nagyerdo forest park in Debrecen, with VIP and skybox hospitality areas alongside the pitch and stands.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
Theatre, arena & venue
Budapest's main indoor arena, opened in 2003 on the site of an earlier hall destroyed by fire, hosting concerts, championship sport and corporate events.
Capacity: 12500 · Variable seating: 12,500 for concerts, 12,000 for handball, 11,390 for boxing, 9,479 for ice hockey
A38 Ship
Theatre, arena & venue
A converted Ukrainian stone-carrier ship moored on the Danube in Budapest, run as a concert and event venue with a hall, roof terrace and bow terrace.
Concert hall, roof terrace, bow terrace and separate studio space
Akvarium Klub
Theatre, arena & venue
A club and event venue built partly below street level on Erzsebet ter in central Budapest, with a large hall, a smaller hall and an outdoor terrace.
Budapest Congress Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
A conference and exhibition complex in the Buda Hills attached to a four-star hotel, with a main auditorium, 20 further meeting rooms and up to 4,000 square metres of exhibition space.
Capacity: 2000 · 20 multifunctional rooms, up to 4,000 sqm exhibition space, catering, AV support, adjoining 319-room hotel
Fono Budai Zenehaz
Theatre, arena & venue
A folk music venue in Budapest's Kelenfold district, built around a dance-house hall used for Hungarian, Balkan and other traditional folk dance and concert programmes, with rooms available together or separately.
Groupama Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
The football stadium of Ferencvarosi TC on Ulloi ut in Budapest, a modern all-seater ground also used for concerts and other events.
Kaloczy Square Event Center
Theatre, arena & venue
A renovated riverside boathouse on Kaloczy square in Gyor, on the bank of the Mosoni-Duna, run as an event venue for weddings and corporate and family gatherings.
Capacity: 80
Kodaly Center
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern concert hall in Pecs's Zsolnay Quarter, home to the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, with a main concert hall, a studio theatre space and conference rooms.
Kolcsey Center
Theatre, arena & venue
A large concert and conference venue in Debrecen with a main hall, several function rooms and a glass-fronted foyer, hired out through its own events office for conferences and functions.
MET Arena Szekesfehervar
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern indoor arena in an industrial zone of Szekesfehervar, built for a top-division handball club, marketed on its own site as a venue for sport, concerts and conferences.
Capacity: 5900 · Seating for up to 5,900 (1,542 on a mobile stand); the arena floor holds 2,000 for concerts. Includes a 100-person and a 50-person meeting room, 3...
Mupa Budapest
Theatre, arena & venue
Riverside performing arts complex opened in 2005 on the Pest embankment, combining a concert hall, a multipurpose festival theatre and exhibition galleries under one roof.
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Puskas Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Hungary's national football stadium in Budapest, rebuilt on the site of the old Nepstadion, with tiered event spaces from a Sky Lounge to VIP suites alongside the pitch and stands.
Capacity: 67155 · Business VIP, VIP Club, Sky Lounge and Sky Lobby event spaces for 20 to 1,000 people, plus stadium tours
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
Theatre, arena & venue
A contemporary dance, music and exhibition venue in Ferencváros housed in a former electrical transformer station, its industrial hall kept largely as found.
Urania National Film Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Art Nouveau cinema and event hall of 1896 on the Grand Boulevard, with a Moorish-influenced facade and a decorated auditorium ceiling, named by the national film commission among Budapest's classic movie theatres.
Capacity: 460 · Grand Hall (Diszterem): 425 seats for screenings, up to 460 for other events; stage area about 100 sqm with a high ceiling; three theatre dressing...
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Veszprem Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern indoor sports and event hall on the edge of Veszprem, home to a top-division handball club, with a rentable arena floor and function rooms used for concerts and corporate events.
Capacity: 5300 · Arena floor, lobby (up to 500), conference room (up to 50) and VIP room (up to 100) available to hire, with optional staging, sound, lighting, LED...
Vigado Concert Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1865 concert and ballroom building on the Pest riverbank of the Danube, restored with its historic hall and staircases, used for concerts, galas and exhibitions.
Vigszinhaz (Vig Theatre)
Theatre, arena & venue
A large historic theatre on Szent Istvan korut in Budapest, with a main stage and several affiliated smaller stages across the district, offering backstage tours of the building.
Industrial and derelict locations in Hungary 10
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 10 on their own page.
Balna Budapest
Industrial & derelict
Row of 1880s Danube-side public warehouses extended in 2013 with a glass and steel shell, turning the brick halls into an exhibition and events building on the riverbank.
Seen in: The Martian, Berlin Station, Six Underground, Black Widow
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Csepel Works
Industrial & derelict
Former state ironworks on Csepel Island with factory halls, chimneys, a free port and a disused water treatment plant, still partly in industrial use.
Seen in: The Brutalist
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Dreher Breweries
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery complex in the Kobanya district of Budapest, Hungary's best known beer producer, offering organised factory tours of its production halls.
Fertorakos Quarry (Kofejto)
Industrial & derelict
A disused limestone quarry near Sopron with an open cave chamber converted into a cave theatre, used for opera and concerts and hired out for weddings and corporate events.
Globus Konzervgyár, Kőbánya
Industrial & derelict
A canning factory in the Kőbánya district whose castellated brick exterior gives it the look of an old fortress rather than a working food plant.
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Kelenfold Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Art Deco power station built on the Buda bank in the late 1930s, with glass-block floors, spiral staircases and a control hall named a filming location by the national film commission.
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Millenaris Park
Industrial & derelict
Former Ganz electrical works converted into a public cultural and exhibition park, keeping several industrial hall structures alongside gardens and event spaces.
Obuda Gas Factory
Industrial & derelict
Former municipal gasworks on the Danube in Obuda, its striped brick gasholders and domed towers now enclosed within a riverside office and technology park.
165,000 sqm total site area, 82,000 sqm gross leasable area, over 2,000 underground parking spaces (own site).
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Óbuda Stocking Factory
Industrial & derelict
A clinker-brick hosiery factory complex in Óbuda whose blank walls and towers resemble a Hanseatic warehouse district rather than a 20th-century textile plant.
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Zsolnay Cultural Quarter
Industrial & derelict
A former 19th-century Zsolnay ceramics factory in Pecs with preserved kilns, chimneys and workshop halls, now a cultural quarter of museums and function spaces hired out for weddings and corporate events.
Capacity: 2000 · Multiple rentable venues: E78 Concert Hall (460 m2, up to 400 seated theatre-style or 1,000 standing), E78 Panorama Room (223 m2, up to 110 seated),...
Hotels and interiors in Hungary 7
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. Hotels and interiors across Europe.
Rudas Baths
Hotel & interiors
Sixteenth-century Ottoman-era bathhouse on the Buda riverbank, with an octagonal domed central pool lit by star-shaped skylights.
Seen in: Vienna Game
Aquaticum Debrecen
Hotel & interiors
A large thermal spa and wellness hotel complex in Debrecen's Great Forest park, with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas and function space that the operator lists for conferences and events.
Gellert Baths
Hotel & interiors
Art Nouveau thermal bathhouse of 1911 at the Buda end of Liberty Bridge, with turquoise Zsolnay tiling, majolica columns and a glass-roofed wave pool.
Seen in: Accumulator 1, Royce
Hungarospa Hajduszoboszlo
Hotel & interiors
A large thermal and wellness bath complex on the Great Plain, combining a medicinal thermal bath, an indoor adventure pool, an aquapark and an open-air beach area with an on-site hotel and campsite.
Palace Hotel Lillafured
Hotel & interiors
A castle-style hotel built in the 1920s in the Bukk Mountains near Miskolc, overlooking the Szinva valley, Hamori Lake and a waterfall, with period interiors and historical exhibitions.
Parisi Udvar
Hotel & interiors
A restored 1817 shopping arcade in central Budapest under a stained-glass and mosaic dome mixing Gothic, Moorish and Art Nouveau detail, now the lobby and restaurant of a hotel.
Szechenyi Thermal Bath
Hotel & interiors
One of Europe's largest bath complexes in City Park, with a fresco-decorated dome hall, indoor and outdoor thermal pools and elegant colonnaded corridors.
Seen in: Mata Hari, Evita, The Luzhin Defence, Gemini Man
Capacity: 150 · Marble Hall holds up to 150 people (130 with a dance floor, 120 theatre-style); Small Cupola Room up to 70; Palm House 50 to 80 for evening events;...
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Transport and infrastructure in Hungary 7
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. Transport and infrastructure across Europe.
Hungarian Railway History Park
Transport & infrastructure
An open-air railway museum in Budapest with a working turntable, roundhouse and rolling stock from steam to electric era, plus an 870-metre operating narrow-gauge line.
Capacity: 2500 · Orient Hall (up to 2,500 people), Kando Room (40 people) and outdoor grounds for hire
Budapest Keleti Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Budapest's largest main-line terminus, built in the 1880s with a glazed central hall, monumental facade and ornate waiting rooms that remain in daily use for rail traffic.
Seen in: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Inferno, The Luzhin Defence, Einstein and Eddington
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Budapest Nyugati Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Iron-framed terminus completed in 1877 by the Eiffel company's Paris workshops, with a glass and steel train shed and a Baroque Revival facade on the Grand Boulevard.
Seen in: Terminal
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Budapest-Deli Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Socialist-era terminus on the southern slope of Castle Hill, rebuilt in the 1970s as two linked concrete and glass halls with copper railing details and marbled concourses.
Seen in: Spy/Master
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Children's Railway (Gyermekvasut)
Transport & infrastructure
A narrow-gauge forest railway in the Buda hills staffed on-train by schoolchildren under adult supervision, running steam and diesel services between Huvosvolgy and Szechenyi-hegy.
Liszt Ferenc Airport Terminal 1
Transport & infrastructure
Mid-twentieth-century former main terminal of Budapest's international airport, now used for general aviation and charter traffic, with its original modernist facade and interiors intact.
Seen in: Inferno, Atomic Blonde, Spy, Terminator: Dark Fate
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Szechenyi Chain Bridge
Transport & infrastructure
Suspension bridge opened in 1849 linking Buda and Pest across the Danube, with cast-iron chain cables and stone lion sculptures at each bridgehead.
Seen in: I Spy, In Secret, 12 Monkeys, Gemini Man
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Hungary 7
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. Offices, schools and public buildings across Europe.
Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
Office, school & public building
Budapest's central public library, its reading rooms fitted into the ornate former Wenckheim Palace with gilded ceilings and marble staircases behind the working library shelving.
MOM Cultural Center
Office, school & public building
A multidisciplinary cultural centre in the Nemetvolgy area of Budapest with a theatre hall, a domed hall and several named function rooms, plus an open-air stage and promenade.
MOME Zugliget Campus
Office, school & public building
Hillside campus of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, with white-walled contemporary buildings, exposed concrete and large glazed studio spaces.
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OKISZ Headquarters
Office, school & public building
Reinforced-concrete office headquarters in the Zuglo villa district, an example of Late Modern architecture with a retracted facade and a working paternoster lift.
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Piarist Centre
Office, school & public building
Central Pest school and monastery building on Marcius 15 Square, mixing a neo-Baroque shell with a 21st-century glazed extension and an internal theatre hall.
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University of Debrecen Main Building
Office, school & public building
A neo-baroque university building from 1932 in Debrecen with a domed central hall, a long facade and formal gardens, still used daily for teaching and by the university's own event office.
University of Szeged Main Building
Office, school & public building
The historic central building of the University of Szeged on Dugonics ter, an early 20th century academic building used for teaching, administration and formal university functions.
Film studios and backlots in Hungary 6
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.
Korda Studios
Studio & backlot
Studio complex in Etyek west of Budapest with seven sound stages, a 400 cubic metre water tank and three backlots built as a medieval street, a Renaissance square and a New York street.
Seen in: Poor Things, Halo, Blade Runner 2049, The Martian
16,500 sqm of soundstages, 5,500 sqm workshops and storage, 15 hectares of secured exterior construction area
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Kecskemetfilm Animation Studio
Studio & backlot
A working animation studio in Kecskemet producing short and feature animated films, also home to the Kecskemet Animation Film Festival, with facilities visited on organised studio tours.
NFI Costume Warehouse, Fót
Studio & backlot
A 2,500 square-metre costume store run by the National Film Institute near Fót, holding about 130,000 costumes and accessories from medieval dress to 20th-century uniforms for hire to productions.
Seen in: Rise of the Raven, Fairy Garden, Son of Saul, Hadik
Warehouse of more than 2,500 square metres holding close to 130,000 costumes, with garments and accessories from medieval outfits to 20th century...
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NFI Studios
Studio & backlot
State-run 31-hectare studio complex near Fot, visited by filmmakers since the 1970s, with eight soundstages, over 20,000 square metres of buildable backlot and the largest outdoor filming tank in continental Europe.
Seen in: Dune: Part Three, Shadow and Bone, The Witcher, Terminator: Dark Fate
12,670 sqm of soundstage space, 24,700 sqm assigned for set construction, outdoor water tank of 4,700 cubic metres
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Origo Studios
Studio & backlot
Purpose-built studio complex in Budapest with eleven stages, including nine soundstages and around 19,000 square metres of filming space, plus backlot areas and underwater filming facilities.
Seen in: Dune: Part One (2021), Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
11 stages totalling over 19,000 m2: nine soundstages (largest Stage 6, 4,373 m2 and 20 m high; Stages 3 and 4, 2,662 m2 each) and two VFX stages with...
Stern Film Studio
Studio & backlot
A four-stage studio complex in Pomaz near Budapest, built on a former industrial site, with a 5,000m2 backlot and a water tank built into one of the stages.
Seen in: Dracula, The Alienist, Berlin Station, Dune: Prophecy
Stage A: 2,280m2, 12.5m height. Stage B: 1,482m2, 12.5m height, with a water pool. Stage C: 837m2, 5.3m height. Stage D: 148m2, 6m height. Offices...
Palaces and landmarks in Hungary 5
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Fisherman's Bastion
Palace & landmark
Neo-Romanesque viewing terrace of 1902 on Castle Hill, with white limestone turrets and staircases overlooking the Danube and the Parliament building.
Seen in: I Spy, The Borgias, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Maigret
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Hungarian State Opera House
Palace & landmark
Miklós Ybl's neo-Renaissance opera house of 1884 on Andrássy Avenue, with a gilded horseshoe auditorium, marble staircases and an arcaded stone facade.
Seen in: Red Sparrow (2018), The Alienist (2018), Houdini (2014)
Adria Palota
Palace & landmark
An 1902 neo-Baroque office palace on Szabadság tér, built for a shipping company by architect Artúr Meinig, now vacant and decaying behind a marble staircase and Adriatic-themed frescoes.
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Eszterhaza (Esterhazy Palace)
Palace & landmark
Rococo palace of the Esterhazy princes near Sopron, known as Hungary's Versailles, with a mirrored ballroom, a puppet theatre and a Chinese-style music pavilion once staffed by Joseph Haydn.
Godollo Royal Palace
Palace & landmark
Baroque palace east of Budapest, the favourite residence of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, with gilded state rooms, a riding hall and formal gardens.
Bars, restaurants and shops in Hungary 5
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Batthyany Square Market Hall
Bar, restaurant & shop
A steel-framed 19th century covered market hall on the Buda bank of the Danube at Batthyany ter, in daily use for food stalls beside a metro and suburban rail interchange.
Gerbeaud Cafe
Bar, restaurant & shop
Confectionery and cafe on Vorosmarty Square dating to 1858, with wood-panelled salons, chandeliers and a period patisserie counter, named among Budapest's historic cafes by the national film commission.
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Great Market Hall (Nagyvasarcsarnok)
Bar, restaurant & shop
Budapest's largest and oldest indoor market hall on Fovam ter, a steel-framed 19th century building with a Zsolnay-tiled roof, in daily use as a food market with stalls on three levels.
Gundel Restaurant
Bar, restaurant & shop
A landmark Hungarian restaurant in City Park operating since the 1890s, its upstairs rooms in the historic building used as a formal events venue for weddings, conferences and banquets.
Capacity: 3000
New York Cafe
Bar, restaurant & shop
Ornate fin-de-siecle grand cafe on the ground floor of the New York Palace, with gilded columns, frescoed ceilings and marble tables, listed by the national film commission among Budapest's historic coffee houses.
Capacity: 600 · Twelve meeting rooms. Rome hall: 441 sqm (550 theatre / 320 banquet) with a 770 sqm foyer. Rossini: 178 sqm (150 theatre / 100 banquet). Vivaldi: 126...
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Houses and apartments in Hungary 5
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.
Gozsdu Udvar
House & apartment
A chain of seven connected courtyards running between two parallel streets in Budapest's Jewish Quarter, formed by 19th century apartment blocks and now lined with bars, restaurants and a regular weekend market.
MÁVAG Colony
House & apartment
A early-20th-century workers' housing colony built for the MÁVAG railway-equipment works in Kőbánya, its closed rows of company housing largely unchanged since the era of state industry.
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Óbuda Experimental Housing Estate
House & apartment
A late-1960s housing estate in Óbuda built as a testbed for precast-concrete residential forms, still standing as an example of state-era experimental design.
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Szazados Road Art Colony
House & apartment
Early-twentieth-century artists' colony of studio houses set among trees in Zuglo, still used as working studios and listed as a location by the national film commission.
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Wekerle Estate
House & apartment
Early-twentieth-century garden suburb of low Art Nouveau terraced houses laid out around a central square, built as a model workers' estate on the edge of Pest.
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Villages and countryside in Hungary 5
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Tokaj
Village & countryside
Small wine town at the meeting of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers, surrounded by centuries-old volcanic-soil vineyards and deep cellar systems used for ageing sweet Tokaji Aszu wine.
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Hortobagy National Park
Village & countryside
UNESCO-listed alkaline grassland on the Great Hungarian Plain near Debrecen, with an unbroken horizon, traditional shadoof wells and grazing herds of Hungarian grey cattle.
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Hungarian Open Air Museum (Skanzen)
Village & countryside
An open-air ethnographic museum near Szentendre with reconstructed village buildings, farmhouses, churches and a mill relocated from different regions of historic Hungary, set among fields and orchards.
Opusztaszer National Heritage Park
Village & countryside
An open-air heritage park on the Great Plain marking the site of Hungary's first national assembly, with a rotunda housing the Feszty circular panorama painting, reconstructed period buildings and an ethnographic skanzen.
Sostoi Muzeumfalu
Village & countryside
An open-air ethnographic museum near Nyiregyhaza with relocated village houses, a windmill, a church and a school laid out as a walkable historic village, with its own page for hiring the site for photo and film shoots.
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Hungary 4
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. Hospitals, prisons and institutions across Europe.
Budapest Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
The Hungarian Prison Service's professional history collection in Budapest, exhibiting uniforms, restraints, firearms and other institutional material from the Austro-Hungarian era to the present.
Lipotmezo Sanatorium
Hospital, prison & institution
Abandoned former psychiatric hospital in the Buda hills, with high-ceilinged corridors, exposed pipework and a decayed operating theatre listed as a filming site by the national film commission.
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North Pest Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Part-disused Art Nouveau and Modernist hospital complex in North Pest, with broken-windowed wards and a glazed dome over the main building, catalogued as a filming site by the national film commission.
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Satoraljaujhely Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
A prison museum in the town of Satoraljaujhely, next to the still-operating Satoraljaujhely Prison and Detention Facility, displaying the history of the Hungarian penal system from feudal punishments to the modern era.
Churches and monasteries in Hungary 4
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Pannonhalma Archabbey
Church & monastery
A working Benedictine monastery on a hilltop above the town of Pannonhalma, with a basilica, cloister, library and vineyard, part of it open to visitors and hired out for weddings and corporate events.
Capacity: 268 · Six rentable rooms: the Ceremonial Hall (250 m2, theatre-style up to 268, with microphone, projector, screen and wifi), the Viator centre (120 m2, up...
Szeged New Synagogue
Church & monastery
An Art Nouveau synagogue in Szeged completed in 1903 by architect Lipot Baumhorn, mixing secession, historicist and Gothic Revival forms under a large central dome.
Tihany Abbey
Church & monastery
A Benedictine abbey on a peninsula above Lake Balaton, nearly 1,000 years old, with a baroque twin-towered church, a crypt holding the tomb of King Andrew I and a museum on the monastic community.
Magyar Szentföld-templom, Hűvösvölgy
Church & monastery
An unfinished 1940s reinforced-concrete church in a Buda woodland suburb, meant to unite replicas of Holy Land pilgrimage sites, left as a roofless shell of bare columns.
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Historic towns and streets in Hungary 3
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Aquincum Museum
Historic town & street
The excavated civilian town of the Roman settlement of Aquincum in north Budapest, with an open-air archaeological park of house foundations and a museum building of Roman finds from the site.
Andrassy Avenue
Historic town & street
Tree-lined boulevard of ornate 19th-century palaces and villas running from the city centre to City Park, with the Metro's first continental underground line beneath it.
Seen in: Munich, Bel Ami, Houdini, Genius: Picasso
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Sopron Old Town
Historic town & street
Medieval old town near the Austrian border with an almost intact street plan, a firewatch tower and Castle District monuments, named a strong option for historical productions by the national film commission.
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Castles and estates in Hungary 3
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Fort Monostor
Castle & estate
A 19th-century brick fortress complex on the edge of Komarom, with casemates, tunnels and a separate star-shaped outer fort, now a heritage site with its own wedding and conference venues.
Star Fort conference room is about 240 m2 with capacity for 140 people, with a projector, wifi, a podium and sound and projection equipment; the...
Vajdahunyad Castle
Castle & estate
Eclectic replica castle of 1896 on a lake island in Budapest's City Park, combining Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque wings within a few hundred metres.
Seen in: The Witcher (2019), Dracula (2013), Gemini Man (2019)
Diosgyor Castle
Castle & estate
Restored fourteenth-century royal castle in Miskolc with four corner towers around a rectangular courtyard, offering both a walled interior yard and open battlements.
Modern architecture in Hungary 2
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.
House of Hungarian Music
Modern architecture
A 2022 concert and exhibition building by Sou Fujimoto in Budapest's City Park, with a canopy roof cut by tree-shaped openings over glass-walled halls, a 360-degree dome cinema and recording studios.
MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Center
Modern architecture
A glass-fronted exhibition building in central Debrecen with large open gallery halls and a minimal facade, used for contemporary art shows and with its rooms listed for hire on its own site.
Forests and lakes in Hungary 1
Woodland, forests, lakes and rivers, with the access tracks and permits that shooting in them needs. Forests and lakes across Europe.
Lake Balaton (Balatonfured)
Forest & lake
Resort town on the north shore of Central Europe's largest lake, with a yacht harbour, a lakeside promenade and hills of vineyards rising behind the waterfront.
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