Inaugurated in 1896, the Budapesti Metró is the world's second oldest metro subway system (33 years after the first, in London), and the world's first to be powered by electricity. Riding this fairly shallow Metró provides a great tour of the highlights of Pest, including Andrassy Avenue, Vörösmarty Square, Cafe Gerdbeaud, St. Stephen's Basilica, the State Opera House, various distinguished theaters, and the House of Terror, documenting the horrors of life in Hungary under the Nazi and Communist régimes. Furthermore, at the Deák Ferenc Square stop there's an Underground Railway Museum documenting this illustrious history.

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