Millennium Underground Railway

The Millennium Underground Railway is the first Metro line of continental Europe is underneath Andrássy Avenue. The National Assembly of Hungary has given its blessings to the plan as early as 1870, but construction started only in 1894 – and the works were finished as early as 1896.

In 1896 Budapest gave home to the World Fair, and masses of people needed transportation from the center of town to the area known today as City Park and Heroes’ Square. The reason why the railway was built under the ground is because Andrássy Avenue was the most elegant avenue of Budapest even back then, and the city fathers have opposed any means of mass surface transportation. The stops are marked with yellow signs, and staircases lead to the Metro – no escalators, as the tunnel is only just a few meters under the ground, supported by steels pillars. Every stop is a little museum, with photos and text in Hungarian, English and German.