The flat part was for a long time a sleepy small city and only started to boom with the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy in the 1870s. In the following 30-40 years it was together with Chicago the fastest growing city in the world. After 1900 a lot of wonderful Art Nouveau buildings were made and Pest became a real metropolis.

Now every district is worth discovering, whether the downtown, the Jewish quarter, the new Leopold quarter, the Hungarian Champs Elysees Andrassy Boulevard or the Bronx of Budapest the 8th district.