Budapest is the cultural, political, intellectual, and commercial heart of Hungary. Customers looking for a city breaks in Budapes t will find it mixes breathtaking Old World grandeur with a thriving cultural life. Situated on both banks of the Danube River, the city unites the colorful hills of Buda and the wide, business like boulevards of Pest. Much of the charm of a short break to Budapest lies in unexpected glimpses into shadowy courtyards and in long vistas down sunlit cobbled streets. Budapest is Peaceful and bustling, a big metropolis and yet friendly, it treasures the old and embraces the new. Here the historic blends with the modern, the hills harmonize with the river, that is, the Danube, which flows through the city along a stretch of 28 kilometres.