Radó Dezső: Parks and Forests - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1992)

Moszkva tér by bus 158. The pleasant, 1041 m journey on the “Libegő” takes 12 minutes. The experience is like sailing above the hillside. Below, on the nearly untouched hill, oaks, pines, maples, and here and there a couple of beeches appear.

The upper terminus is a busy tourist centre. From here the Elizabeth Lookout is up to the right, towering on the highest point of Budapest since 1910.

The top of János Hill is exactly 433.3 m above the zero mark of the water-gauge by the Chain Bridge. The unique view stretching for 85 kilometres is almost unparalleled among the world’s major cities. The Great Hungarian Plain stretches to the southeast, bounded by the silver stripe of the Danube. Székesfehérvár and Csákvár lie on the horizon to the southwest, behind the villages of Törökbálint and Biatorbágy, and Lake Velence. Looking to the west the villages of Budakeszi, Páty, and Szár line up behind each other with the Vértes Mountains in the background. Nagy-Kopasz Hill lies to the northwest, with the village of Nagykovácsi in the foreground and Nagy-Szénás Hill behind. Nagy-Hárs Hill

Hunyadorom rises among the hills

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