Budapest from Above

Explore the Hungarian capital city of Budapest by drone in this compilation, which was produced using highlight footage from the "Budapest from Above" collection.  You'll soar over some of the city's most well-known spots, including St. Stephens Cathedral, the Parliament Building, Heroes' Square, and more.

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Prepare to be blown away by this astounding film (and winner in the Cityscapes category of the 6th Annual NYCDFF) of Budapest, Hungary, by 2x Drone Video Award-winning team Timelab.pro.  Shot with a Zenmuse X7 camera mounted to a DJI Inspire 2 drone, the video captures many highlights of this cultural treasure on the Danube River: its famous bridges, the Baroque masterpiece Buda Castle, the Parliament Building on the riverfront, the Liberty Statue on Gellért Hill, the St. Stephens Basilica, and more. 

Top contributor vitality.karpovich, whose first three AirVuz uploads were all picked as Drone Video of the Week Finalists, hits another "bullseye" in this fantastic drone video of Budapest, Hungary.  The video opens with some epic footage of St. Stephens Basilica, the Neo-Classical masterpiece completed on the eve of World War I.  Other sights featured include the orange-steepled Matthias Church, the enormous Parliament Building, Buda Castle, Fishermen's Bastion, the Statue of Liberty atop Gellért Hill, and more.  

Former DVOW Winner dronesantana007 brings us this stunning drone video of Budapest, Hungary.  The video opens with a shot looking toward the Széchenyi Chain Bridge over the Danube River, towards Buda Castle on the Buda (west) side of the river.  Starting at the :55 mark, there's a great shot of the Parliament Building, the great edifice on the Pest (eastern) side of the river.  The next stop is Matthias Church, a Gothic masterpiece in the Castle District.  Other locations include the Szilágyi Dezső Square Reformed Church (2:55).  

Explore the great city of Budapest, Hungary in this excellent video by contributor filmingdrones, which was a DVOW Finalist in July, 2024.  The video opens with a shot of the Liberty Bridge, which spans the Danube River on the southern side of the central city.  At the :13 mark, you'll see the Liberty Statue atop Gellért Hill on the western (Buda) side of the river.  At :39, you'll see the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the most famous of the city's spans.  Other locations include Buda Castle (:58), the Parliament Building (1:11), and more.  

Check out this fantastic evening-hour drone tour of Budapest, Hungary, compliments of AirVuz contributor Alexander Schmidt Photography.  The video opens with one of the city's most iconic views: the Freedom Statue atop Gellért Hill, overlooking the Danube River from its western (Buda) side.  From there, you'll go on to see the great Parliament Building on the eastern (Pest) side of the river, Buda Castle, the Danube bridges, Heroes' Square, and more.  The video was shot with a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone.  

The normally bustling city of Budapest, Hungary appears to be almost void of human activity in this video by The Hobby Traveler, shot while the Hungarian capital was in the midst of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020.  The video uses a combination of drone and ground camera footage to show how social distancing measures imposed to slow the spread of the deadly virus created eerie scenes of car-less Danube River bridges, empty public squares, and public transportation facilities with no passengers. 

Budapest, Hungry is one of the great cultural and historical treasures of Europe.  The Hungarian capital city is the 10th largest city in the European Union by population and is known for the Budapest Opera House, the famous Hungarian food at the Central Market Hall, its famous bathhouses and the Danube River that cuts through the city. Pilot lee the flying scotsman takes us through the city showing us Heroes’ Square, the Buda Castle on the western (Buda) side of the Danube, and the Hungarian Parliament Building. 

Contributor Minglam created this unforgettable aerial tour of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest on the Danube River, at the edge of the Great Hungarian Plain.  The aerial views of the Parliament Building, the bridges over the river, and other sites in this magnificent Eastern European city are breathtaking.  He combines daytime and nighttime footage in a marvelous edit of this city which sits at the very crossroads of Europe and which was the product of a 19th century "merger" between the cities of Buda and Pest.  

AirVuz contributor Michael Daramola brings us this stunning drone view of Buda Castle, the great palace which lies on the right bank of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary.  The original castle was built in the 13th century, but was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the mid-18th century.  It was nearly totally destroyed during the bloody Seige of Budapest in the waning months of World War II.  During the Communist era that followed, it was reconstructed in a manner which combined medieval (Gothic) and Baroque elements, and modernization.

Top contributor and pilot Raf Neo used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this stunning tour of the highlights of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest.  The video opens and closes with spectacular shots of the St. Stephens Basilica, Hungary's greatest cultural treasure, which lies on the Pest (eastern) side of the Danube.  It is named after the first Hungarian king who ruled during the 10th and 11th centuries and is credited with converting his people to Christianity.  The great landmark was completed in 1905 on the site of an old theater.  

Contributor Minglam created this magnificent drone video of the Hungarian Parliament Building, one of the most well known landmarks in the capital city of Budapest.  Situated on the eastern side of the great Danube River, the Gothic Revival building was built in connection with the unifaction of Buda and Pest in the late 19th century.  This architectural marvel, which is still the largest building in Hungary, required the labor of about 100,000 by the time it was completed and opened in 1904.

Bridges are the lifeblood of Budapest, a city created via the merger of Buda and Pest on either side of the Danube River.  In this drone video by contributor Smmaxim, you'll get a bird's eye view of almost all of these bridges, shot from a vantage point flying above Buda Castle.  The oldest and best known is the  Széchenyi Chain Bridge, which was built in 1849, 25 years before the union.  With a total length of 375 meters (over 1.2k ft.), it was considered one of the world's engineering marvels.  

Bridges are the lifeblood of Budapest, a city formed in 1873 by the union of the cities of Buda and Pest on either side of the Danube River in western Hungary.  The most famous of these bridges is the first: the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.  Seen in this drone video by tom g bp, the bridge links  Adam Clark Square on the Buda (western) side of the Danube with Szécheny Square on the Pest (eastern) side.  Spanning 374 meters (1.23k ft.), it was considered a great feat of 19th century engineering when it was completed in 1849.

Budapest's two most famous churches are located on opposite sides of the Danube River: St. Stephens Basilica on the Pest (eastern) side and the Matthias Church on the western (Buda) side.  In this excellent piece by tom g bp, you'll get a great aerial view of the Matthias Church, formally known as the Church of the Assumption of the Buda Castle.  The Gothic style landmark dates to the 14th century, built on the site of an earlier Romanesque style church.  It's located in Holy Trinity Square, in the heart of the city's Castle District. 

For a first upload to AirVuz, new contributor Michael Daramola brings us this excellent drone video from Budapest's Gellért Hill.  The top of the hill sits 235 meters (about 770 ft.) over the right (western) bank of the Danube River, just a bit downtstream from Buda Castle.  The video features excellent footage of the main sites on and around the hill, including the Liberty Bridge, the famous green and red Danubius Hotel Gellért, the 19th century Citadelle fortress at its summit, and the post World War II era Statue of Liberty.  

Contributor Gkoutanoudisg created this beautiful video of Budapest, the great Hungarian capital city on the Danube River. It opens with an epic shot of the Parliament Building, the architectural marvel which required 100,000 workers to build and which was completed in 1904.  The video mixes ground and drone camera footage, and goes on to feature shots of the city's numerous churches, Buda Castle (which lies on the western side of the river), and more spots from this very well preserved city.

Among the most popular sites of the Hungarian capital city Budapest is Fisherman's Bastion.  This neo-Gothic terrace is situated on Castle Hill, on the Buda (western) side of the Danube River.  Fisherman's Bastion was constructed around the turn of the 20th century.  The seven pillars of the structure represent the semi-mythical seven Magyar tribes that settled on the Hungarian Plain to form the predecessor to modern Hungary.  See it from above in this beautiful drone video by duminciucbogdan.

Contributor Michael Daramola created a beautiful aerial view of Heroes' Square, one of the main landmarks of Budapest, Hungary.  Situated next to City Park (Városliget), the square was constructed around the turn of the 20th century, shortly after Buda and Pest had united to form the present-day city of Budapest.  The timing also coincided with the 1,000 year anniversary of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin.  Unlike similarly named squares in other European capitals, Heroes' Square does not contain any interred remains.  

The popularity of Budapest as a tourist destination has been helped by numerous movie appearances in recent years. The Hungarian capital has appeared in such films as Spy (2015) and Inferno (2016).  Most famously, the city was featured in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), the fourth installment of the series.  The film opens with an aerial shot of the great Parliament Building on the Danube River; you'll see this landmark from a similar perspective in this amazing drone video by Minglam.

AirVuz contributor Michael Daramola brings us this excellent drone video of Margaret Island in Budpaest, Hungary.  The long, narrow island lies in the Danube River, just a short distance north of the center of the city.  It's connected to the mainland at the Árpád Bridges and Margaret Bridges, which span the Danube at the island's northern and southern ends, respectively.  The video features footage of the island's main sites, including the Palatinus Water Park, the Alfred Hajos National Aquatics Complex, the Water Tower, and more.  

Check out this beautiful drone video of Budapest, Hungary, the first upload from new contributor the Hobby Traveler. The video opens with some great shots of the Liberty Statue, the great World War II monument on Gellért Hill.  The next featured spot is the Matthias Church on Trinity Square in the Buda Castle District.  The last major stop is the Archangel Gabriel statue, a part of the Milennium Monument on Heroes' Square.  The video also features some nice shots of the city's famous bridges on the Danube River.

The western side of the Budapest, Hungary is dotted with a series of hills, the most prominent of which is Gellért Hill.  It's located south of the Buda Castle District, between the Elizabeth and Liberty Bridges over the Danube.  With a peak elevation of about 235 meters (770 ft.) above the river, it offers some of the best views of the great Hungarian capital city.  The hill is topped by the Liberty Statue, a monument to the Soviet "liberation" of Budapest in the closing months of World War II.    

Check out this stunning drone video of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, compliments of contributor obszibusz.  The video opens with an epic shot of the Liberty Statue on Gellért Hill overlooking the Danube and the Liberty Bridge.  Then the video moves to the magnificent Buda Castle, also on the western side of the river, considered one of the world's finest Baroque castles.  From there it goes on to cover many of the city's other famous landmarks, such as St. Stephens Cathedral, the Parliament, and more.