Certain landmarks in Budapest are very familiar to all of us who live here – but not everyone knows everything about them, including why they’re so significant.
Of all the attractions Budapest has to offer, its palaces and galleries, its baths and its parks, there’s one gem that is charm personified: the Children’s Rail
During Hungary's communist era, the Pioneer Railway near Budapest gave children the chance to help run their own train service. Now renamed the Children's Railway, it's attracting a new generation of young volunteers and former Young Pioneers, once a communist youth movement, are returning, too, for what are called "nostalgia days."