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Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest
Budapest, Hungary · Unbound Collection · High Luxury
Before it was a hotel, this derelict, glass-domed 1913 shopping arcade doubled for Cold War Budapest in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the scene where Jim Prideaux is shot. Architect Henrik Schmahl built it in Gothic, Moorish, and Art Nouveau style for a savings bank, dying in 1912, a year before its completion. A three-year, 85,000-hour restoration reopened it in 2019 as a 110-room hotel beneath the original hexagonal glass dome, protected as Hungarian listed monument No. 468.
- 110 rooms
- Opened 2019
- Neighborhood: Belváros / Lipótváros
About Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest
- Its glass-domed shopping arcade, empty and decaying, doubled for Cold War Budapest in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): it's where Jim Prideaux is shot in the film's opening minutes.
- Architect Henrik Schmahl won the 1907 design competition only after the bank's board overruled the jury's original pick, then died in 1912, a year before his building was finished.
- The hexagonal glass dome over the arcade is built from Luxfer prism tiles, a turn-of-the-century glass system engineered to bend daylight deeper into windowless interiors.
- The site has carried the name Parisian Court since 1817, when Baron József Brudern built a shopping passage here modeled on Paris's Passage des Panoramas.
The setting
2 km from Buda Castle's art collection.
Amenities
- Spa
- Sauna
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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